Last Sunday saw the Peel District Cycling Club take to the Alumina Way circuit in Rockingham. With most of the juniors racing the Junior State Track titles, it was the veterans of the club racing E grade Starting with D grade Simon Stolton and John Mogg stayed with the bunch for seven laps of the …
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Race Report – Pinjarra Criterium 25 Nov 2018
Peel Districts Cycling Club Pinjarra Industrial Estate criterium last Sunday started in overcast conditions. The State Track titles and the forecast of rain kept the numbers down, particularly in E grade. With only two starters John Mogg and Vanessa Baker. The pair started with D grade to give them some protection from the wind. The …
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Race report – Smeaton Way Criterium – 18 November 2018
Sunday saw criterium racing return to Rockingham, with racing at Smeaton Way. The A grade field was exceptionally strong considering it was only a club race, with Stephen Hall returning to Australia after successful racing season in both Europe and the the US for the last six months. Theo Yates winner of two stages of …
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Golden Criterium Rockingham 11 November 2017
Last Saturday morning saw the initial running of the Beach Cup Golden Criterium on a tight 850 metre circuit on the Rockingham Beach foreshore and cafe strip. It was intended to run both a men’s and women’s elite race. However, with most of the best women riders in Perth participating in the Tour of Margaret …
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Race Report – The Ring #6 Gnangara 15 January 2017
The Ring Criterium series returned after the Christmas break, with a number of Peel Districts Cycling Club members making the trip north to Gnangarra with some success. Also making the trip north was members of the Albany Cycling Club. The first race was the under 13s E grade. As usual the race quickly broke apart, …
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Race report The Ring #5 Tech Park 18 December 2016
The Ring criterium series returned to Technology Park Bentley on Sunday, and while there were a number of Peel Districts Cycling Club members racing, with Ashton Sime winning the under 13s race and Tom Power winning E grade. The star of the show was Travis Meyer in his final race as a professional rider in …
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Race Report – the Ring #4 Smeaton Way 11 December
The Ring criterium series returned to Smeaton Way circuit in Rockingham last Sunday with the largest number of riders to date. Over 230 took to the circuit, it could of been more, but numbers were capped per grade for safety reasons. It was the strongest men’s A grade field seen at Smeaton Way, with Travis …
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Race Report – The Ring #3 Gnangara
Over 30 members of the Peel District Cycling Club made the trip north to Gnangarra for the 3rd round of The Ring Criterium series. The circuit has only been used for racing once before, so it was new experience for most of the 200 riders racing. The 1.1 kilometre circuit consists of two 90 degree …
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Race Report – The Ring #2, Smeaton Way, 27 November 2106
The Ring Criterium Series came to the middle of Rockingham. The coastal wind, the wide open roads and sweeping corners the Smeaton Way circuit made it very different conditions from the previous week and it was expected to make breakaways more difficult. In the under 13s race, it way very similar to the previous week …
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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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