Canberra Cycling Club
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/04/2016
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
Mountain Creek Road
Course start/finish is cnr of Mountain Creek Rd and Uriarra Rd
Riders will head down to Uriarra Crossing, doing a U turn before the descent. Return and turn right on to Mountain Creek Rd. Riders will do a U turn 3.6kms from the turn (just before the NSW border) and return to the start/finish area. Each lap is approx. 15km.
Due to UCI guidelines, we can’t allow Disc Brake bikes in this race.
- MA/B/C and WA four laps
- MD/E and WB/C three laps
- (Juniors one lap of the false flat approx. 10km. No extra marshal needed)
- Course Route on Strava
It was a cracking day for the Uriarra-Roubaix, which with the low sun, white gravel and rolling hills more resembled the Strade Bianchi – which is no less easy.
Course was half gravel and half bitumen, and the conversation and laughing from combined A/B grade could be heard for miles as they enjoyed the first leg on bitumen. In fact Women’s A/Men’s C put almost 1 minute into A/B on that first leg.
The smiles had all turned to grimaces by the end of the 1st gravel leg though and the bunches had all broken up into small groups and individuals. Certain strongmen appeared to be missing from the bunches, and this would continue to occur for the next 3 laps.
Today was not a day to take your favourite water bottle as bottle ejection was resulting in many thirsty riders gasping for water as the race went on.
Notable DNF’s included Snadzy, who shook his handlebars loose, broke a chain and got a puncture, and likely wore his cleats out, after walking in each time. He’s lucky his Chinarello frame is not splintered all over the road as well.
Liam appears to have been stitched up by his Quon mates who packed a punctured tube into his new tube box, which meant a tube change, false hopes and subsequent walk.
The visiting Swiss uber mountain biker, was a potential dangerman, but after a few laps, his borrowed CX bike had both brakes seize up and gears refused to change.
Funniest story of the day was young Dave, from D grade going out for his final leg on the gravel, and punctured right at the start finish line. After yelling a few words rhyming with ‘duck’, he threw his bike into the grass, only for his dad to remember he had a spare wheel in the car. Dad was sent sprinting for the car like the best European mechanics and Dave was back in the race, ultimately holding on to 2nd spot.
Great racing, despite the fact that of the 31 tough participants who started the race, only 21 ended up finishing, and many only after making mid race repairs.
Charles Nicoll
WA
1 971 CHAMBERLAIN, Belinda WA 56 27.2 2:03:20
DNF 732 Eheim, Chantal WA – – –
WB
1 703 VON MARBURG, Georgina WB 42 25.4 1:39:10
2 721 ROBARDS, Lauren WB 42 23.0 1:49:29
WC
1 118 ROBERTSON, Vivian WC 42 21.9 1:55:00
MA
1 361 ROBERTSON, Matthew MA 56 30.3 1:50:51
2 463 THOMSON, Aaron MA 56 30.3 1:50:51
DNF 737 FISCHER, Nicolas MA – – –
MB
1 375 BROWN, Alec MB 56 30.3 1:50:57
2 722 RICE, Matthew MB 56 28.3 1:58:32
3 740 ARCHIE, Ben MB 56 24.9 2:14:41
DNF 933 FRANKCOM, Paul MB – – –
DNF 595 O’DEA, Liam MB – – –
DNF 1020 Andrew Snaidero MB – – –
DNF 105 VINE, Jay MB – – –
MC
1 537 SIMPSON, James MC 56 28.4 1:58:17
2 1353 HARRISON, Roger MC 56 28.4 1:58:17
3 1475 STOREY, Peter MC 56 28.4 1:58:19
4 701 SMITH, Paul MC 56 27.4 2:02:51
5 714 NEWMAN, Anthony MC 56 25.8 2:10:25
DNF 540 VIGAR, Dominic MC – – –
DNF 1374 LANGMAN, Mark MC – – –
DNF 714 NEWMAN, Anthony MC – – –
DNF 725 BLANEY-BROWN, Oliver MC – – –
No Chute 736 NEWMAN, Alex MC – – –
No Chute 746 Nicholas Tanner MC – – –
MD
1 730 NICHOLSON, Tony MD 42 27.6 1:31:27
2 126 GREWAL, Devraj MD 42 26.6 1:34:48
3 4 PROSSER, Miles MD 42 25.7 1:38:09
ME
1 581 EDWARDSON, Nathan ME 42 25.9 1:37:29
Junior
1 702 ROGERS, Cameron Junior 8 Missing Error
2 173 PETTETT, Riley Junior 8 Missing Error
3 131 PETTETT, Hannah Junior 8 Missing Error
4 729 JORDAN, Edward Junior 8 Missing Error
