The Wednesday evening time trial series, started last week, with only a handful of riders. Including the course record holder Stephen Hall and the club’s oldest member Ken Portman. For those who have never ridden the race. Racing starts at 5:30pm from the Hopeland Community Centre. You travel 8 kilometres down Hopelands Road into a …
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Pinjarra Classic Race Report
Sunday 16 September saw over 200 riders descend of the Premier Hotel Pinjarra, for the running of one of Western Australian blue-ribbon cycling races, the Peel Districts Cycling Club’s Pinjarra Classic. Which included for the first time, two women’s grades. The race is run over a 69km course, climbing up from Pinjarra to Dwellingup, before …
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Race Report – Peel Junior Tour – 29 may 2016
The Peel Junior Tour, the State’s leading single day event for junior cyclists, attracts cyclists from as far afield and Albany and the Goldfileds Cycling Club. In the past it has been dominated by riders from the Midland Cycling Club, this year it was Peel Districts riders time to shine. The event consists of 3 …
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Race report – Serpentine 14 May 2016
Saturday afternoon saw over 100 riders take to the Serpentine course. E grade saw eight young riders and their chaperones take to the nine kilometre circuit for three laps. The pace of almost 30 kilometres an hour, saw a few riders dropped. So when the group turned on to Karnup Road for the final time …
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Race Report – Dog Hill 7 May 2016
Clear skies and a strong southerly greeted the riders at the Dog Hill circuit. The wind impacted on every race and each grade was different. With only two riders, E grade started with D grade. Unfortunately the D grade pace was too high and the pair had to work together to survive their 20 kilometre …
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Race Report Casuarina 30 April 2015
The start of the Peel Districts Cycling Club winter road season saw a record number of riders racing. In part due to a large number of juniors from the Midland Cycling Club. The youngest riders raced in E grade accompanied by chaperones for three laps of the 8.6km circuit. On the first lap, the grade …
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Race Report – Stan Gurney V.C. Memorial – 25 April 2016
Stan Gurney was a well known Western Australian cyclist who was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously after being killed in action in El Alamein in 1942. Since 1943 the Midland Cycle Club have organised the Stan Gurney V.C. Memorial Bike Race. In recent years, it has been a criterium raced at the Midland Railway Workshop …
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Race Reports Sunday 17 April
This weekend saw the close of the Peel District Cycling Club Sunday summer racing season with the Time Keepers Time Trial at Hopelands. It also saw the running of the toughest road race of the year, the Delirium 24 Hour race, host by the South West Cycling Club on a short 2.4 km circuit along …
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Race report – Club Criterium Championships – Smeaton Way, 10 April 2016
The Peel District Cycling Club Criterium Championship coincided with the Midland 100 which included the State Under 19 Road Championship. So much to the relief of the older club members, the younger riders chose to start the road race season early and race in Gidgegannup rather than Smeaton Way criterium circuit in Rockingham. Over the …
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Race Report 20 March 2016 Parklands
Sunday was the last club race at Parklands for this season. Part of the circuit had just been resurfaced, which resulted in a light covering of stones the full length of the 400 metre climb. Which was going to mean a major change in tactics for some riders. You needed to follow the wheel tracks …
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