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Christhonie Geldenhuys

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Winter Solstice Racing update

We are now moving towards the business end of the season in the Western Province Cycling Associations Autumn and Winter League and we take this opportunity just to recap and inform you of some of the amendments to the 2nd half of the season.

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League standings as at Riebeeck Kasteel TTT

Category One

1st.Rohan Du Plooy – (Lights by Linea), 2nd   Tim Jenkinson (Team Giant), 3rd JP Jacobs – (Team Aurecon).

Category two

1st Robin Harris – (Cycles Direct CC), 2nd Oswin Booysen – (Siphiwo CC) , 3rd        Guy Le Ray Cook (ind)

Category Three

1st Tyrone de Schmidt (Cycle Teknix) , 2nd Jono Weltman (Velokhaya ), 3rd Ashley Accom (Cedar CC)

Ladies

Leizel du Preez (Cycle Teknix) and Bianca Holtzkampf  (City CC) are currently tied for 1st place, 3rd Maroeskja Matthee (Bestmed)

Category three – Club Competition

1st Cycles Teknix CC , 2nd Outriders CC , 3rd Cedar CC , 4th City CC, 5th Cape MultiSport

For all the categories and club competition go to : https://wpcycling.capedjco.co.za/event-information/wpca-autumn-and-winter-league-2016/leaderboards/

Revised Calendar

10 July – Life Path Health – TEAM TIME TRIAL – Riebeeck Kasteel

17 July – Lights by Linea Hero Challenge  – Burgundy Estate

24 July – Fesantekraal Road Race – Cape Multi Sport (125 kms)

7 August – Lights by Linea Hero Challenge – Paarden Eiland

14 August – Life Path Health – TEAM TIME TRIAL – Riebeeck Kasteel

21 August – Killarney – Cycle Teknix Series

28 August – Paardeberg Road Race (125kms)

Notes to the above

Life Path Health – Team Time Trial – teams to consist of 2 riders. Riders may also take part in the individual competition as well.

The last Lights by Linea has been moved to the 7th August as the Lights by Linea team will be competing outside of the country in the 2nd half of August.

Road Commission

  • The current team welcomes any constructive criticism and advice on how to improve future WPCA League Series. Thank you to those members and participants that have made suggestions so far.
  • We are currently working on a few events in Sept/Oct/Nov which will fill in the gaps in the racing calendar.
  • SA Road & Time Trial Championships will be held in the Paarl region in February 2017, the official announcement will be made soon.

Cycling South Africa  Youth Festival

The Western Province youth cyclists are currently competing at the CSA Youth Festival in Oudtshoorn and we trust they are enjoying the racing. A loud “well done” to O’Ryan Bruintjies, his team of assistants and parents who prepared, coached and cheered our young cyclist at all the events in preparation for this festival of Cycling – we know you are doing us proud.

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Commissaires, Timekeeping & Judging, and Team Managers Course for Cape Town in July

1 June 2016 – Cycling South Africa’s Technical Commission will be hosting a Road and Track Cycling Commissaires Training Course, a Timekeeper and Judges Course and a Team Manager’s Course in Cape Town from 22-26 July 2016.

Commissaires Course

Candidates must be qualified and licensed Timekeepers and Judges to be considered for this course.

Timekeepers and Judges Course

Persons interested in becoming a Timekeeper and Judge will be considered. Upon successful completion of the course, candidates will be required to do practical training in order to become accredited and licensed.

Team Managers Course

This course is for those interested in managing a cycling team.

Space is limited so book early to avoid disappointment. For more details and to apply, please contact Wynand Pretorius by email wapretorius57@gmail.com or call 082 901 8504 in order to secure your seat.

Western Province Riders in Europe

Daniyal Matthews, Devin Shortt and Greg de Vink will be leaving for Europe soon to race for a few weeks as part of a CSA squad in preparation for the Road World Champs later in the year. This is a feather in the cap of our Road Commissioner Mike Aaron whose races have been great breeding ground for the CSA Youth Teams.

Life Path Health – Time Trial # 4 – Event 14 – Results

Time trialing – by definition, an event which requires the rider to pedal as fast as humanly possible over a set distance – remains a painful pursuit so we introduced the 2 man team time trial to share the pain at the Life Path Health Time Trial Series. The Winter solstice is but a few days always and sunny days are becoming a distant memory at this time of the year. Most of the weather predictions were for rain to arrive in the Riebeeck Kasteel valley in the late morning so we took the decision on the Saturday to move the start time an hour forward. All concerned were informed to try and be at the venue as early as possible to make the early start at 8:00am. Conditions in the morning were chilly with a nasty biting headwind on the route up to the turning point. The event was split into two competitions with some electing to ride as individuals and others in teams of two.

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HEROChallenge 3 – Burgundy Estate – 2016-06-12

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Success in road criteriums requires a mix of good technical skills — in particular, the ability to corner smoothly while holding the line on the road, as well as rapidly and sharply — and riding safely with a large group on a short circuit and exceptional “sprint” ability to attack other riders and repeatedly accelerate hard from corners.

Organizers like to give the riders a sight of the route before the commencement of a criterium so that that they are not caught unawares of the twists and turns of unfamiliar roads.

Category 3 and Ladies

The Burgundy ‘lap to check out the course’  was ridden so hard that we rolled up to the start snorting like thoroughbred  racehorses. The calm before the storm so to say because the first few laps caught out many a rider who has enjoyed the comfort of the bunch in recent road events. The main protagonist of the fast pace was Elfrieda Wolfaardt who is one of our top lady track cyclists and the 47 year old Colin Parsons who until recently had been racing in Category 2.

Ladies
  1. Maroeskja Matthee
  2. Chante vd Merwe
  3. Nicola Gillomee
Category Three
  1. Collin Parsons Bellville
  2. Bjorn Pienaar (Cycle Teknix)
  3. Byron Brouwer (Kinetic)

 

Elimination – Category one

This event was ridden over a shortened course of 1 kilometre and many of the riders were caught up in a crash at the first corner when Theuns vd Bank lost a tubbie and was unable to control the ‘slide’ into the corner. This caused a number of riders to exit the race early on. Timothy Jenkinson of Team Giant kept a tight rein on the front of the bunch which was quickly whittled down to the strongest riders in the Cape.

Results
  1. Bernard Esterhuizen – Team Giant
  2. Clint Hendricks – RoadCover  (winner of the Argus)
  3. Timothy Jenkinson – Team Giant

Category Two – 45 minutes plus a lap

The race started fast and then there was a bit of a lull which enabled Wynand Dippenaar – Kinetic CC ,Guy Le Ray Cook (Ind) and the eventual winner Brian Dodkins (Cycles Direct CC) to break away from the bunch. They built a lead of 30 seconds over the chasing bunch which they maintained to the end. Wynand Dippenaar is gearing up to represent the WP Schools at the CSA Youth Festival and is finding some great form shared the workload with Brian Dodkins and Guy Le Ray Cooke.The chasing bunch were unable to make any inroads into the lead. Brian Dodkins has been riding in support of the current Category Two point’s leader Robin Harris and this weekend it was his opportunity to race for line honours. This he did by outsprinting Wynand to the line.

Results
  1. Brian Dodkins (Cyles Direct)
  2.  Wynand Dippenaar (Kinetic CC)
  3. Guy Le Ray Cook (Ind)

Category One – 1 hour plus 1 lap

There was a flurry of attacks early on in the race which resulted in a number of cyclists finding the pace just a bit too hot to handle.  There were a number of attacks during the next half an hour of which none were able to stick. The defending Argus Cycle Tour champion Clint Hendricks took a flyer on the 2nd last lap but he was pegged back by the Lights by Linea rider Stefan Ihlenfeldt.  Once the gap had been closed James Tennant of Light by Linea attacked with young Ian Lategan of Stellenbosch Pro Cycling on his wheel, they swept into the last corner at a furious speed with James holding onto first place from Ian in second and Max Sullivan rounding off the podium in third from a group of riders and a fast finishing bunch.

Results
  1. James Tennant (Lights by Linea)
  2. Ian Lategan (Stellbosch Pro Cycling)
  3. Max Sullivan  (Stellenbosch Pro Cycling)

 

 

Results

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Rawsonville – Event 12 – Results

The sun was just rising over the mountains when racing started in earnest. Category 2 and Category 3/Ladies rolled over the start line and raced towards the first corner of a 12 kilometre triangular circuit. The local Montana High School and Worcester Wheelers supplied the refreshments and support personal for the event which started and finished at the Dasbosch Cellars on the Louwshoek Road.

Category3/Ladies – 72 km

With barely one lap completed a group of four riders slipped away from the bunch. Two riders dropped off the group finding the pace just a bit too hot to handle despite the brisk conditions around the route. None of the clubs which are in a battle for 2nd spot in the inter club competition were able to co-ordinate a concerted effort to bring back Chris Morgan(City CC) and Bjorn Pienaar (Cycle Teknix) and they were able to maintain the lead right up to the finish. The closest the bunch got to bringing them back was 200 metres and then it ‘sat up’ with no-one wanting to close the gap.

Franz Lemmer won the bunch sprint with Chris Morgan in 2nd and Bjorn Pienaar taking the win.

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Ladies :

  1. Maroeskja Matthee (Bestmed)
  2. Liezel du Preez (Cycle Teknix)
  3. Nicky Giliomee (ind)

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Category 2 – 96 km

Category 2 seemed to take a break from their normally fast pace and they were content to roll around the route and keep the break of about five riders in their sights. The break was brought back with ease and the race wound up for the sprint.

  1. Reinhardt Marais,(Kinetic)
  2. Zaheer Harris (Kinetic)
  3. Oswin Booysen (ind)

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Category 1 – 120 kms

Winter is almost upon us but the beautiful Autumn days make racing on the road such a pleasure. Sunny with no wind or rain was the forecast. Last week’s Cat 1 race was aborted which meant the riders were raring to race. After four laps of the 10 lap race the big split came.

The break consisted of 17 riders from Team Alfa Body Works , Team Giant , Lights by Linea , Stellenbosch Pro Cycling and Aurecon. The sponsored teams don’t have it all their own way in the WP League and Bellville CC, Cycle Teknix CC, Velokhaya, UCT and CycleLab were also represented. Rohan du Plooy of Lights by Linea the current overall leader of the points competition didn’t ‘hoek’ the attack and had to be content to sit and watch the gap grow. The bunch was working together like Trojans and it was no surprise when the speedo consistently reached 50kph. The constant high speed eventually told and Lights by Linea teammates James Tennant and Dirkie Nel crossed the line on their own in 1st and 2nd place respectively with Ray Cox – Bellville CC in 3rd just a few metres behind.

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All images copyright of WARD Photography/Robert Ward

Results

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Classic Series – 2015-05-17 – Results

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Point standings after Track Classic #4

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Photo: Theo Bruwer

CAT A

1 Kyle Borchjes – 4 points
1 Bernard Esterhuizen – 4 points
1 Theuns Van Der Bank – 4 points
1 Evan Carstens – 4 points

CAT B

1 Yusuf Davids – 7 points
2 Arnoe De Vries – 3 points
2 Wynand Dippenaar – 3 points
3 Waqaar-Deen Ismail – 2 points

CAT C

1 Linwell Jansen – 7 points
1 Wynand Hofmeyer – 7 points
2 Neils Hansen – 4 points
3 Marcelino Burns – 3 points

VETS

1 Colin Parsons – 7 points
2 Russel Palm – 6 points
3 Robin Harris – 4 points

LADIES

1 Maroesjka Matthee – 7 points
2 Elfriede Wolfaardt – 5 points
3 Ashleigh Parsons – 2 points

U10

1 Cameron Wilcox – 7 points

U12

1 Ethan Kulsen – 10 points
2 Daniel Grobbelaar – 7 points
3 Zakie Martin – 2 points
3 Zareef Green – 2 points

U14

1 Stefan Marais – 10 points

Results

Results 17 May 2016

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