City Cycling & Athletic Club

est. 1891

City Cycling Club Newsletter :  July 1999

At the next club meeting South Africa’s own Phil Liggett Johnny Koen will be attending in order to discuss sponsorship for the club and or a series of races that will be hosted by ourselves late in this year or early next year. So if any of you know of any sponsors that will be interested in good exposure in the newspapers , TV and radio at a good price come to the meeting on 2 August at 7.30 sharp , be there anyway and find out firsthand what is going to happen regarding unification / amalgamation of the cycling bodies in the country.. Are "things" really going to change ? The cyclist are more or less the same , only the people giving orders and playing boss are different. in fact the SACF are holding an extraordinary congress on the 21 August and amalgamation is on the agenda amongst other things.

WP Road Champs - Date change.

Take note that the champs will take place on the 11th September starting at 12 noon for senior elite and juniors. The route for Seniors/Juniors will be the Adderley , van Schoorsdrift and Vissershok circuit (V/hok will be climbed three times for seniors and twice for juniors) all other categories will do Adderley and the Fesantekraal circuit returning to the finish via Adderley and not V/hok. The start venue will be the parking lot in New street , Durbanville. There still time to start doing intervals into the S/Easter .Taking the date change into account Yorkshire’s race will take place on the 28th August , if you are intending to go to Paarl on that day phone first , Yorkshire were not at the Province meeting when the above topics were decided.

The Time Trial Champs take place on the 18th September , those intending to take part can tune their bikes bodies etc at the CLUB’S restricted gear T/T to be held on 12th September(9.00am) at the 4 Way Stop at Fesantekraal.For the newcomers this is how it works , you may use a 53/19 or 42/15 gearing , your shifters will be taped up with masking tape , and off you go -16kms- results will be determined by sealed handicap, so that means anyone of us mere mortals can win .There are trophies to be won for time elapsed as well. This is a very good exercise to determine your lactate threshold. A wind down ride for about an hour will commence afterwards . SEE ALL OF YOU THERE.

Increase in entry fees.

With the price of petrol increasing over the last few months the officials have upped their fees from R200 to R300 for the day , this increase will be absorbed by increasing entry fees for seniors from R20 to R25, Vets and women from R17 to R20 . The age groups have also been increased.

Knysna Funride

Held in almost perfect conditions Lotus/IBM filled the first six places in the 104k ride. In the 50k ride club members Oscar Ferreira , Dominico Cutino and Graham Ward caught the breakaway bunch in the last 50metres before the line , but they think that two riders got away right from the start .Not content to do his first competitive ride since breaking his collar bone Mike Maartens jumped off the bridge at Gouritzmond on the way up to Knysna and on the way back home , that one way to get the heart rate up and the digestive system going , he promptly came down with the flu the next day.

If you really want to catch a "action man " check out the Gladiators on TV every Friday , member Robbie Rodriques won through his first round and is into the semis.

Jamie Ball

Steve Down arranged for Jamie to ride for a club in France and by all accounts is doing very well , he needs to win two more races for his licence to be upgraded.

Russian Steps

As promised two newsletters ago , here's another indoor exercise .

00-15 minutes - Warm up. Then change to a 52/15 and go for it:

16 -31 1.15 secs sprint 45 spin 09.50 secs 10 spin

2.20 secs sprint 40 spin 10.45 secs 15 spin

3.25 secs sprint 35 spin 11.40 secs 20 spin

4.30 secs sprint 30 spin 12.35 secs 25 spin

5.35 secs sprint 25 spin 13.30 secs 30 spin

6.40 secs sprint 20 spin 14.25 secs 35 spin

7.45 secs sprint 15 spin 15.20 secs 40 spin

8.50 secs sprint 10 spin 16.15 secs 45 spin

32-45 minutes -Warm down. Try and do this exercise before supper!!!!

South African Teams

All Africa Games Tour L’Abitibi (Juniors) Track Champs (Juniors)

Malcolm Lange Wesley Cole Wesley Cole

Nicolas White Geoff Easton Steven Esterhuyse

Tiaan Kannemeyer Alwyn Scheepers Garth Thomas

James Perry Anton VD Merwe Byron Kulsen

Jacques Fullard Jaco Odendaal Dean Edwards

Paul Minnaar Michael Saint Jones Justin Godfrey

At the time of writing the SA juniors were the leading team in the Tour L’Abitibi (Canada) with one of our boys lying second overall.

Congratulations to Gerard Genis , John Moss and Tony Roberts for being selected to compete in their age categories in the Vets Worlds (Road) to be held in St Johan Austria later this year. The only other WP rider to get selected was Francois du Toit.

10 July Fesantekraal Circuit.

The crosswind blew most of the bunches apart with James Perry winning the seniors with not even the second placed Mools in sight , Garth Thomas winning the sprint in the juniors . In the Vets half the starters gave up after the first round , in the end City’s Gerard Genis came in second to Johan du Plessis.

17 July Klapmuts Hotel

We did not have to tackle Helshoogte as the traffic police allocated to the race had to do duty in Stellenbosch for the rugby match. We had to contend with a rather undulating course , with a bit of a downpour in the first few k’s and then with a bitingly cold headwind for the last 10. James Perry again winning with no-one in sight and Gerard Genis winning the Vets.

VIP Dates

14 August - City Cycling Club - 104 km - Voor Paardeberg Road , Paarl

04 September - City Cycling Club - 117 km - New Street , Durbanville.

12 September - City Cycling Club - 16 km Restricted gear (Club members only + friends - no ringers) 4 Way

11 September - WP Road Champs - Various - New Street , Durbanville.

18 September - WP T/T Champs - Various - 4 Way , Fesantekraal

We are going to need your help regarding the first two races under VIP dates as we are the host club and are carrying out our duties as members of WPCA , we can do a Peninsula and cancel , as it will only cost us a R250 fine but that's not the way we do things around here , please volunteer your services for marshalling duty.

ex-Member Boyd Roberts has a 54 cm track bike (Reynolds 531) it includes Turbo saddle , ITM stem , Cinelli bars , Miche cranks , Look ARC pedals Campag hubs and Campag Omega aero rims = R3000 . He also wants to sell Campagnolo track wheels for R2000 , give Boyd a call on 557 9325 or 419 5558.

Rumour has it that Robbie Dale taken up playing rugby. What next? Hughie a ref and Mrs. Dale on the WPRFU committee.

Do you know that should you be selected to represent your country in cycling you will have to pay your own way? Only the Senior Elite are subsidised . The Juniors and Vets selected to compete as mentioned on the previous page ,have not received a cent from SACF . Can you believe that of R195 185 received from NOCSA ,R177 185 has gone to one person - JP van Zyl . If you have heard about the 4000 bikes donated from Osaka , they are street bikes (something like a delivery bike) to promote cycling as a mode of transport !!! What next ? Must we wait another decade or two before they start donating motor cars and racing bicycles. This was all proudly announced in a circular to affiliated bodies of the SACF.

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