by Vaughan Hunt | Sep 19, 2013 | Event Reports
As the handicapper in last year’s Joe Allen race I was a bit embarrassed that we had a top-notch scratch bunch who worked like Trojans, but didn’t get anywhere near winning. It made it worse that I was in the scratch bunch with a bit of form!
A good handicap race is one where all the bunches come together in the last 5 to 10% of the race distance. The Joe Allen is a bit different, because the last third of the race is downhill or flat, so providing there is no strong cross wind, many B and C riders would be able to hook onto scratch as they come through and be in the mix for the overall win. This year’s race was a bit closer to that ideal…
The limit riders (D grade) were a small group, and although they had half an hour on scratch, the group size and wind direction (Sth Easterly) meant that they’d be caught at some point on the way home.
(more…)
by Vaughan Hunt | Sep 18, 2013 | Photo Gallery
Photos thanks to Kirsty Kaihau
(more…)
by Vaughan Hunt | Sep 16, 2013 | Photo Gallery
Photos thanks to Kirsty Kaihau
(more…)
by Vaughan Hunt | Sep 16, 2013 | Event Reports
Tough little event today, the first ever XC Eliminator was held as part of Feilding Festival of Cycling.
A lung burning fun short course based at the velodrome in friendly Feilding.
Start and finish was on the tarmac of the velodrome,with the circuit on a mixture of power sapping grass, soft sand and shingle of the Oroua River bank, a touch of single track breaking out onto a potholed gravel road.
(more…)
by Vaughan Hunt | Sep 5, 2013 | Archive(News)
Entries for the Saturday and Sunday rides can be made online up until Noon on the Friday the13th and on the day at registration.
We hope you will get in behind this club organised event!
As the handicapper in last year’s Joe Allen race I was a bit embarrassed that we had a top-notch scratch bunch who worked like Trojans, but didn’t get anywhere near winning. It made it worse that I was in the scratch bunch with a bit of form!