Dulwich Hill Bicycle Club

Thank you Kylie for volunteering to be Volunteer Coordinator I'm now calling for volunteers to help out with the following jobs: Event coordinator - organise a series of small events for members that could include things like informal info nights at Marrickville Road Cafe or a BBQ to welcome new mem...

Yeah well, what can I say, I forgot that hill. Mind you I had my chain on the small ring. It was a good ride overall. A few women did their first ever 100km ride which was pretty good to be a part of. A chap rode alongside with a video and camera. I did my best to look moody and focus on the middle ...

Eleri did pretty good, she managed to tack on to bunch 2 and was there for a while.

and STILL came last

I vote for DHBC's best effort Friday night - Jo's Winners Race victory. So much yelling from all of us and about 2.5 laps of vomit face from Jo. Nicely done

Absolutely! Great race Jo.

Fit great. All we need now are some Nike Shox and fanny packs and we can hang out at Westfield together.

I fancy myself hanging out in a 60s American diner ... I'll be wearing a short, flared skirt. Chewing gum.

Well I'm leaving MRC at 5:30. Got no idea who is going to be there but I'm sure I'll see you if you are!

Got to try one out at Dunc Gray tonight. I like it and it fits me nice.

We are going to be hot at the track!

I've also entered against any sensible assessment of the evidence. This was my worst race ever last year.

Mind you, only 2 women in it last year. The other woman beat me.

P.S. Due to previous AFL committments, Eleri and I may need to skip a stop or too and leave the bunch to make it home in time.

Actually, bugger the footy! I'm going to a musical afternoon at Admiralty House with the GG

No reason why there can't be two rides btw - if some want to leave at 6am, and there's a few of you, why don't you do that?

But for traffic reasons, I'll avoid the stretch between Bundeena turnoff and Loftus with the peak hour traffic and go at 5:30 for that reason.

It's an idea that's been had before. There's certainly an opportunity to write a funding submission but that will require a fair bit of work. But if that's something you'd like to be involved in ... let me know!

Re: RNP Loop - Saturday 6 July 1. Keith 2. Jo 3. Eleri (prefers 5:30am)

1. Keith
2. Jo
3. Eleri (prefers 5:30am)

Has anyone been reading Michael O'Reilly's (fellow DHBC member) blog on the SMH? http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/tour-de-france-live-blog-2013-stage-4-20130702-2p9yb.html#poll A few mentions of other DHBC riders (Timothy Clifford, I mean you)... And possibly Eleri (if you were the one pointing ...

Anyone want to join me for a tour of the Eastern Suburbs on this Tuesday morning leaving Marrickville Road Cafe at 5:15AM?

I'm aiming to be back by 7:30 at the latest - hopefully a bit earlier.

Pace will be fast 28s. This isn't a club ride, just that I'm going then.

Thanks Alex and Christian - I'll put you in touch with Greg.

The Catrike (recumbent) that DHBC members fundraised for Greg Pankhurst's rehab has arrived! http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af284/Eleri_photos/IMG_0579_zps6c138f43.jpg It turned up in a box and needs some assembling - not much apparently. There are more bits than in this photo :-) There are a n...

Both of you, and anyone else interested, should talk to Geoff Martin as well.

You can DM him through the forum.

Rajiv - the courses are related. However, do the Cycling NSW one now that it has been re-instated. The reason to do that is that as a ride leader on a club sanctioned ride you have a duty of care to the bunch. You are also covered by insurance when acting as a ride leader. Your licence will be updat...

OK - I've joined and picked my fantasy team.

I think I'm lacking in fantastical abilities as a result of this exercise. Must be that lack of cojones again.

Oh my, my week HAS been defined by gender.

I tried to join but keep getting a 404 error from the link.

Do you think it is my lack of cojones that is causing this?

Yes that was supposed to be "unruly". We may have to have a secret meeting of our team to decide on our trademark item of clothing. My vote is for a team Lampre skinsuit http://i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/111618818/Lampre_SKINSUIT_Short_Sleeve_TRACK.jpg :-) For the avoidance of any doubt, y...

Excellent report thanks Bill! Thanks for taking the time and effort to write it up so that others in the club get a sense of what's involved in the NRS. It was a good insight into the race and glad you all got an opportunity to ride an NRS Stage Race. That you did so well is a credit to you, conside...

I can't ride my road bike on rollers. I can ride my track bike.

I am regularly sweeper on Wednesday morning rides. Best to keep the back of a bunch tidy I say

You people throwing up or nearly throwing up after eating pork mince and salmon pasta - give it up now!

Thanks for the updates Simon.

Really sorry to hear about the crashes and it must indeed be tough racing if people are missing the cutoff.

Thinking of you all and best wishes for today and tomorrow. Good luck!

Excellent result everyone! Thanks The bike is being ordered today and there's a red one in stock. Dougie and I will work out a plan for the excess funds raised and what we do with them. Either return them or reapply to something else but probably the NRS team. But we'll consult before making a call....

Anyone who eschews coffee at Bundeena and chooses Cronulla will be making an egregious mistake. Voice of experience.

Why does James chain monkeys up?

Estimated $2,300

Good suggestions. Thanks.
Dougie has put up a post to organise the raising over here

In February Greg Pankhurst crashed while on the Johnny Warren ride. DHBC committee wants to help by crowdfunding the purchase of a recumbent trike for Greg's rehabilitation initially and then look what we can do with the bike when he's finished with it. It would be great to find a way to use it for ...

The recent survey was great. It highlighted lots of things the club should do ... and we are up for it but need a few more hands. Most importantly we need a Volunteer Coordinator to: Maintain lists of who can do what Match-up people and tasks Volunteer jobs - some of these can be shared on a roster ...

Ability and willingness to volunteer for DHBC http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af284/Eleri_photos/Q9_Volunteers_zps4a3ca32e.jpg What respondents would like to change about DHBC Q10 asked members what they didn’t like about the club (if anything) and what they would change if they could. It also ...

Likelihood that respondents will race in the future Q8 was open ended. Members were asked why they didn’t race and what the barriers were to them racing, By far the biggest response was from people who didn’t know how to get started in racing – whether it be confidence, riding skills, knowledge, wh...

Year respondent joined DHBC http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af284/Eleri_photos/Q7c_Year_joined_zpscc68e469.jpg Percentage of respondents with a racing licence (This is similar to club membership) http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af284/Eleri_photos/Q7d_Racing_Licence_zpsf5b19f94.jpg

Gender of respondents (This equates to gender makeup of club membership) http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af284/Eleri_photos/Q7a_Gender_zps1f39b92b.jpg Age of respondents (This roughly equates to age distribution in club membership) http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af284/Eleri_photos/Q7b_Age_...

Fee setting options

Preferred pricing if we organise professional coaching

Top 3 improvements to DHBC

New ride options - preferences

Great feedback from the survey everyone! Thanks to the 115 people who responded. Here are some charts from the survey for the interest of members. Why you joined http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af284/Eleri_photos/Q1_Why_joined_zps2aea7312.jpg How you found out about DHBC http://i1016.photobucket...

The headwind that didn't materialise into a tailwind. Disappointed!

Another solo through RNP - I'm getting used to this! No cars at all up until Bundeena turnoff then - peak hour! Consensus is that an earlier start will avoid the stream of cars needing to be in Sutho at 9am.

Well, you'll be all waiting for me at the top of the hills ... just saying. Somewhat less fit and fast atm.

I am thinking of doing an RNP ride Saturday morning, weather permitting, leaving MRC at 6am. Pace will be cruisey (C28/Middy).

1. Keith W
2. Eleri

It's fine Anna - I rode it this morning at about 6:30.

Champions, the lot of you.

But what a great experience! I'm sure the hotel knew what people in the Inner West are really like

Great report James. Thanks.

Novice isn't a race as such. And the races aren't real races with points. It's more try the track - no-one rides it more than once or twice. It's Div 5 for him I reckon. And it's highly variable. The races get broken up into heats depending on the race. Crafty will often put the kids and women in to...

Committee meeting tonight. We'll be discussing the first cut of the survey results. More later!

Can someone tell me more about RAW Track ? In particular how the events occur? What does this mean? Does it go by age groups? is it a free for all, with the exception of Round 2 (on some weeks?) Or does it go by age group/gender/division (like what happened at Bowral , and Christmas Carnival) ? - i...

I've moderated this thread to remove all the posts about potential teams. We know we can field at least two Italian Pursuit teams with the requisite categories. So let's leave it at that for now. Track Captain, Alex Chubb, can pull the team together at the appropriate point in RAW series, which I wo...

Specifically: The Hillbrick Club Challenge. • Riders must be from a CNSW or CA registered club or UCI recognised nation • All points from riders in the Point series of same club will be accumulated to form the clubs overall score. • Refer to RAW Track points system http://www.rawtrack.com.au/index.p...

I did, but didn't commute. Should I still upload?

http://www.manlywarringahcc.org.au/raci ... /#more-856

You can enter online ahead of time too - might be a good idea

Last call

The survey analysis will happen tomorrow night. If you haven't had a chance to fill it in, please do it before 7pm tomorrow (Tuesday).

Eleri, great report. It does all sound just a little too Wolf Creek for my liking. What time was banjo practice...... Nice picture. Maybe I have seen it elsewhere ne pas? http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/fitness/blogs/on-your-bike/best-day-on-a-bicycle-20130602-2njsq.html# or maybe your nom de...

Yes it is. Currently buried in a backlog of club things I need to do.

The potholes near Nimbin are mesmerising http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af284/Eleri_photos/IMG_1019_zpsa6289d88.jpg Camping and cooking under shelter in the wind and rain at Gray's Creek http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af284/Eleri_photos/IMG_1031_zps30df379b.jpg Border Ranges didactic panel...

Occasionally people in the club tour – there’s been some epics involving budgie smugglers , Melbourne to Sydney with alleged tantrum, various tours of Tasmania and Victoria’s epic solo tour with Bob (her trailer). Our tour was none of that. We set off in the car optimistically in the rain with the B...

Shouldn't you have also inserted:

"Mark and I arrived, not raining. Warmup, ITT, collected prizemoney, photo on podium,

Well, they'd be telling porkies. No prize money or podiums at this gig.

Best ask Eleri about this race ... she had all sorts of fun last year in the pissing rain, wind & low temps. There are hills. We went to lunch. As for accommodation Noel, our house in Nowra is full but I'm sure others are staying Sat night. urrgh - the memories ... But a man gave me a whole box...

Anna - aim to get there around 7:15 to 7:30. You need to warm up and you will be allocated a time in order of arrival. So go straight to sign on when you arrive. Be warned there are no toilets there.
Good luck!

Awesome ride Chris! That's a fair speed for a ride with that much climbing.

Congratulations and really well done.

A message from Waratah Masters: The Ashfield Cycles / Specialized Cup will be held at Eastern Creek Dragway on Sunday 2 June. This will be a graded scratch event with 5 grades competing for over $3,000 in race prizes, plus all entrants are eligible for a raffle prize worth a further $1,200. The even...

7.30am Men's C & D plus women's B grade 8.30am Men's A & B plus women's A grade Sign on is from 7am and entry costs $10 Junior Skills and Racing will follow the main events (approx 9am sign-on for a 9.45 start) I'm planning to do Women's B Grade at 7:30am. I'll be leaving MRC at 6:30am if an...

We are up to 74 responses now - still got time for you others to give us feedback. For your interest: Nobody found out about DHBC through the local paper. Not one single person. We are all talkers - 47% of us found out through "word of mouth" Cycling NSW generated 8% of contacts Just over ...

We have 54 responses so far. Thanks to those people who have responded: Please take the time to fill in the short survey - it will really help us. Click here to take survey Quick stats about the respondees: 60% are over 40 80% are male 56% have a racing licence 23% are unlikely to race in future 27%...

The Dulwich Hill Bicycle Club committee is keen to know what you think about the club and for you to give us your thoughts on the options we are considering. At the recent AGM, members told us: - we could provide more rides; - they were interested in different clothing options; and - that it would b...

John H
Anthony K
Eleri but will dive into RNP at Waterfall

Spotted Michael C riding up George Street in the city about 11:30am this morning. Would have yelled out "Dulwich Hill spotted" but my on-the-spot risk assessment prevented me. This was a good call, he might have looked at me instead of either of the two buses he was threading and ended up ...

At the Cycling NSW AGM last night, Joanne Troutman was announced at NSW Women's Masters 4 Cyclist of the Year!

Congratulations Jo and well deserved!

The award recognises a number of wins and places on both the road and the track.

Thanks everyone. DHBC is a great club and it's been great to be able to talk about it and bask in the reflected glory. After all, it's everyone's efforts that help make that story. Yeah that's great but what perks do you get? e.g. free trip to inspect how the Tour de France is administered. Pretty s...

Don't let Trouty see those. She doesn't "need" any more shoes.

Sounds great! Must get on a mountain bike one day.

Many rear lights have a reflector built in.

NSWIS, UTS and Park Bikes at SOP are advertising for A and B grade male cyclists to participate in a training and coaching program in June and July. If that's you and you are interested, check out the link below (it opens in twitter) https://twitter.com/Bradley_McGee/status/329840634766708736/photo/1

Fast Middies
1. John H
2. Paul
3. James R
4. Philip L
5. Andrewm
6. Eleri

Slow Middies
1. Jothebuilder
2. Dougie
3 Anthony K probably

Wonderful sea of red, great to see that DHBC contributed one quarter of the participants and that you all did really well on the day.

Thanks to everyone who organised and turned up. It's just so wonderful to see the juniors out and racing in numbers.

And I spotted you Mark, riding up Illawarra Road this morning. Too slow to yell out.

I'll join this ride with my tired, near Middies, legs.

Here are the DHBC results for the 110km - minus people who didn't say they were DHBC. Congrats Tai - the only DHBC member to finish in under 3 hours. Simon you needed to be 26 secs faster to achieve that milestone! All up we had 28 DHBC people named in the 70 and the 110. Great turn up all round. Ra...

+1

In fact, he's a DHBC member!

And perhaps look at the course - the first half is all up hill. Then turns around and comes back on the same route, plus a flat loop at the end. If you are looking at times, only look at the times from last year as it was at Nowra. The previous years were on other courses. In a TT, the time for the ...

Sometimes big events like B2B can be challenging to ride because of the different abilities, speeds and consistency of other riders. Last time I did the 165km ride and did long stretches by myself and no real bunches forming for much of it. Or when they did I caught up with them, and they were slowe...

Start a list Colin - DHBC loves lists

Here's an update from CNSW due to record entries for B2B. http://nsw.cycling.org.au/site/cycling/nsw/downloads/Parking%20Bathurst.pdf Good news, you have to go on the overbridge to get to the registration area on Saturday afternoon rather than across the crit track. This is a good safety initiative....

A couple of reports on the Women's races here

http://www.manlywarringahcc.org.au/news ... /#more-803 (DHBC gets a mention in B Grade)

and here http://sydneycyclingclub.org.au/2013/04 ... ce-series/ (with bonus pic of Trouty)

You all seem to have skipped over this bit!!

I’ll be put on a bike this Wednesday - I’ve got a new helmet.

Update from the man himself Rehab is proving a long haul, thankfully I have a leaving date, Tuesday the 7th of May. This makes rehab seem more bearable knowing that escape is at hand. I keep my days busy with activities such as improving my typing skills which have eroded rather badly and other key ...

A top morning out at West Head, perfect conditions for racing and people turned up in numbers. Unfortunately MWCC ran out of numbers and some DHBC people who wanted to race, didn't get the opportunity. Eugen and Matt (a new member) both were sorry to miss out but rode the course anyway. Four women t...

Well if I ride fasties, which I intend to make further attempts, anyone who wants to talk to me in the ride had better get in early and be prepared to carry the conversation.

Alex heavy breathing up Bobbin Head West, with 2 friends we couldn't identify.

And then again near the Fish Markets as we were driving home and he was still on his bike. My passengers were yelling out the window at him.

Email I received today Hi Eleri I'm a stylist and I would like to hire a Penny Farthing as a prop for a TV shoot on Friday 26th April and I wondered if you would be interested in hiring one to me, it won't be ridden just resting up against a wall. I also need a regular bicycle and am looking for som...

The reason we changed the rotation for C25s and C28s was because rotating off the front as the fasties do was clearly unsafe. People coming off the front especially in the C25s weren't sufficiently skilled to roll off safely. We often had people on the wrong side of the centre line and getting stuck...

The AGM is on tomorrow night. All members welcome. It's your club so please come and have a say.

Dieter told me it was on in an email. Their facebook has an event called Paris Roubaix https://www.facebook.com/pages/York-Lan ... 5934513171

Those 24 hour races sound like crazy fun! Set to music even. Who knew?

Sorry you had a crash but kudos for getting back on the bike Tam!

Brilliant, will add conditioner and hair gel next time.

Less is more

Message from Michael O'Reilly Hi DHBCers, This is just a quick note of thanks to those of you who were on Friday's unofficial ride up to West Head, especially those who got caught up in my crash. I was invited to join by La Presidenta and thoroughly enjoyed almost all of it! Especially as I set a st...

however, I was subsequently gently sideswiped by a car on West St, so maybe everything has been evened out.

How are you after that? Still in one piece?

And a power meter, like SRM cranks

Actually Quarq - owned by SRAM

Here's the link to the blurb http://blog.quarq.com/quarq-launches-ne ... wer-meters. It talks to your Garmin (well perhaps not yours Simon, being a bit on the retro side.

Looking through Strava there are a LOT of trophies Think I would have been spat out if I had been there. It was indeed fast out to Narrabeen. Especially felt that when I got dropped on Enmore Road after leading out for the first 2 kms :-) After a regroup at Narrabeen we all rode out to Church Point...

Yes well, what can I say?

But the article is good! If you get a chance, read the research on women's views of cycling that he links to in the post.

Some of the comments though ...

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