By Justin Morris – @JustinMorrisTT1 The time has come for my final blog as a bike racer. After 15 years racing, the clock has run out on my career, the racing wheels have been hung up and racked. It is time to shift my focus, dedication and time to other domains of my life. I…
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Ian Richards: Extending With The Baby-Dump Cycling Team
By Ian Richards I’m really excited today to announce my extension with the Baby-Dump Cycling Team for 2015, at the Continental level. After almost 4 years living in Europe one of my main goals has been achieved. After my 2014 season with many high placed results it is a great opportunity to continue on with…
Phoenix Cycling Collective: Cooking From G2I
By?Andrew Pickering and Sam Moorby Grafton to Inverell, 228km with 3000m of climbing, Australia’s toughest one day race, and with 35+ degree weather only ‘brutal, stupid, crazy and haha really?’ could describe it. This weekend I was lucky enough to have a guest ride for the Phoenix Cycling Collective, in my first year of racing…
Graftin? to Inverell: View From The Team Car
By Peter Maniaty – @CarbonAddiction For all kinds of half-assed reasons I left my run very late in 2014, waiting until the final event of the NRS season to get out of Sydney and make my soigneur debut for the Cellarbrations boys in Saturday?s 54th running of the Grafton to Inverell. I?d heard all about…
2014 Tour of Tasmania Stage 5 Blog: Eric Sheppard
By Eric Sheppard???health.com.au/search2retain Today was a big day at the Tour of Tasmania, it was time for the inaugural barbecue at the Big4 Ulverstone. The team plan of the day was to finish the race as fast as possible, thus leaving maximum time to prepare for the big … meal. This handily worked alongside our…
2014 Tour of Tasmania: Stage 4 Blog By Russell Menzies, Cellarbrations Racing Team DS
Tour of Tasmania, Stage 4 Report by Cellarbrations Racing Team DS, Russell Menzies ? 106km Ulverstone to Penguin. If yesterday was a good day for us, today was off the charts. Just as it was on stage 3 the plan heading off this morning was to protect both Josh and our overall team GC position.…
2014 Tour of Tasmania Stage 4 Blog: Brendan Canty
By Brendan Canty???health.com.au/search2retain Today was probably one of the most exciting moments of a race that I?ve ever experienced and despite being in lots of pain throughout almost the entire stage, it was also extremely enjoyable! It?s quite difficult to articulate exactly how Stage 4 of this year?s Tour of Tasmania 106km road stage from…
2014 Tour of Tasmania Stage 3 Blog: James Hepburn
By?James Hepburn???health.com.au/search2retain And so began stage 3 of the 2014 Tour of Tasmania. The day began on a positive note for me, waking up in the glorious comfort of a double bed, a rarity on tour. I was joined in the room by Stu Shaw who had decided to move his mattress in and sleep…
2014 Tour of Tasmania: Stage 3 Blog By Russell Menzies, Cellarbrations Racing Team DS
Tour of Tasmania, Stage 3 Report by Cellarbrations DS, Russell Menzies ? 93km Launceston to Grindelwald. After a delightful stay at the Alansvale Motor Inn in Launceston our riders readied themselves for a decisive stage that was certain to test all riders and teams. It has 2 KOMs. The first is 8 or so kilometres?long…
2014 Tour of Tasmania Stage 2 Blog: James Hepburn
By James Hepburn – health.com.au/search2retain Stage 2 of the Tour of Tasmania got underway in Strathgordon. On the menu was some hills, wind and rain, all the elements that you can get used to in Tassie. Luckily All the riders got to see the course as we had to drive the opposite direction from the…