Sundays Ride is the No Excuses ride

This Sundays ride is the No Excuses ride Outer Harbor Via Port Road. Weather looks great for a beach ride.

Meet in the City at 7:30 am

Sunday Ride - Beach

Sundays Ride was left flexible as a "Roads Less Traveled" ride. However given the big week most people had last week with the TDU changes, we have decided a beach ride is in order.

Meet in the city at 7:30

Route - Anzac Highway to Outer Harbor  

Sunday - TDU Recovery

Due to the change in TDU format there has been a bit of too and fro about Sundays ride.

At the end of the day people lots of people are doing there own thing Sunday ranging from corporate hospitality (*$&#$*) to family picnics . Hence we will stick with the normal Beach recovery ride.

• Meet in the city at 7:30 

Route is Anzac Highway to Outer Harbor (or whatever the legs are good for)

Tour Down Under Challenge Ride

A early start at Glenelg start and a Saturday ride this year for those doing the Challenge Ride. We will meet in easy reach of the faster group departure areas. 

The meeting point will be under the trees near the Glenelg Rotunda from around 5:30 am 

The departure is at 6:00 am we may actually touch the pedals by 6:15 am 

The weather looks quite cool so we will only schedule two stops. Provisionally the designated Refreshment stops for the BG are as follows:  

• Sellicks Hill 48 km (to be decided on the road if anyone needs water)
• Yankalilla 71 km
• Goolwa 124 km

Regroup points if required 

• 100 metres past the top of O'Halloran Hill
• Just past the Sellicks Hill KOM
• Top of the climb into Victor Harbor 

As we are  "The Bastardi", here is the traditional TDU Italian Phrase that may be helpful on this year's ride. 

• A sausage with onion please - Una salsiccia con cipolla per favore
• A sausage with no onion please - Una salsiccia senza cipolla per favore
• Beer is the best recovery drink - La birra è la migliore bevanda di recupero
• Where can I find a beer and a sausage - Dove posso trovare una birra e una salsiccia

Sunday Ride - Hahndorf via Uraidla (NCC Kermesse)

This Sunday is the start of the TDU week. Sadly there is no Ride like Crazy this year. So we will give the legs a light hills Sundays Ride to get the week kicked off. The route will be Hahndorf via Uraidla via Norton Summit. The exact route to Hahndorf to be decided on Sunday as will the return leg.

Meet

• In the CIty at 7:30 am or,
• at the Tower Hotel at 8:00 am

We are going past Uraidla as the Norwood Cycling Club is having it annual RAPHA Uraidla Kermesse https://www.facebook.com/events/1189715774524302/  and the BG's will have a few mates riding.

The weather looks good for Sunday but Tuesday and Wednesday look like great days to taper for Saturday so get out and make the most of it. 

I will issue our TDU ride post on Monday. 

TDU Week - You have been warned

As it's TDU Time be aware the Police will be paying attention to cyclists

Particular attention paid to

• non-wearing of helmets by cyclists;
• cyclists disobeying road control devices including traffic lights and stop signs;
• cyclists riding in large groups/more than two abreast causing traffic hazards;
• cyclists riding at night without lights.

 A direct focus on the following areas

• Tour Down Under staging areas and race routes;
• Highlighted crash times and dates from 2018;
• Popular areas cyclists frequent (including the coastline between Outer Harbor and Seacliff).

Preparing for WInter

From a Mate at work he has a Brand New TacX for Sale for $850 - RRP $1099 - In the mean time he changed his mind and bought a Tacx Neo.  The Taxc still in the box and he hasn't even taken the sealing tape off it.  Located Eastern Suburbs - Adelaide

Drop me a email 

 if you are interested and I will put you in touch

Sunday is No Excuses for 2019

Happy New Year 2019

This Sunday’s ride is the No Excuses ride Outer Harbor Via Port Road. It’s the first No Excuse ride of the Year. I have noticed lots of Strava entries with people putting in solid rides over the break so this is a great one to head out with the boys. 

·        Meet in the City at 7:30 am

Anniversary Kit Order Extension

The date for 10 year Anniversary Kit orders has been extended to Monday the 28th of January 2019. Please see the blog for details.

Real Time Communications

The BG communication methods of the Blog with a monthly email were right up with the times in 2008. However it’s been obvious for a while that communications are less than perfect and are definitely one way with no options for riders to give feedback. We feel this is hindering the group getting out and enjoying cycling so the admin group have been playing around with different communication options. A few of you would have noticed the Facebook Group and the enablement of comments on the Blog.

Whatsapp

Michael did some research of what other groups use and it has been decided that we will use 2019 to transition the BG over to real time communications using the  WhatsApp messenger platform.  The Benefits are:

·        Whatsapp is getting very popular so there is a good possibility most people are using it anyway

·        It is phone based (you can get a desktop version if you like)

·        The application supports Android, iPhone and Windows phones

·        We have set up a BG Cycling Club group that will allow ride information to be broadcast to the group privately. You will get a Notification pop up informing you of rides or changes.

·        As the group is private you will be able to respond to the BG’s without the entire planet seeing what is going on

·        As its phone based it also has the advantage of allowing us to contact people while on the road.

·        Private invitations to other rides during the week are another benefit. These are encouraged as long as they don’t interfere with the Sunday ride.

If I can encourage you to download Whatapp from Play or Apple Store and register an Account. It’s free.  We will start sending invites out in January post break.

The Blog, Strava Club, Facebook and Flickr accounts will be retained but comments on blog posts will be disabled.

2019 Ride Guide

The clangor count on the 2018 Ride program was higher that I would have liked. Hence I will start early this year and give a longer period for feedback and review