Club News

UQCC CRIT CANCELLED

This mornings crit has been cancelled due to the poor weather conditions. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

This is a photo I took of the signs beside the entry to the Track near the amenities block during the 2022 Flood.

Cheers Bear

Maddy Taylor took out Bronze at the Elite Women's Oceania ITT today, a fantastic result for Maddison and her new Team The Women's Cycling Development Initiative p/b Balmoral Cycling Club.

Congratulations to the winner Isabelle Carnes and Silver Katelyn Nicholson. Ness Nanfra 7th!

On behalf of UQCC Committee, announcing the 2024 edition of Charles Coin Memorial and Mardi Bartlett Classic Road Races.

Huge thanks to our wonderful sponsors: Brodie Chapman, Fitzroy Island Resort and Taylor Cycles.

Entries via EntryBoss. Please note the event date is Saturday 25 May 2024.

The 20km circuit in Laidley, Queensland tackles the picturesque roads of the Lockyer Valley, where riders will challenge each other for honours in the second round of the Queensland Classic Road Series.

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AusCycling - QLD Clubs and Community

What a great day!

Mat Gilfedder Images:

gilfedder.smugmug.com/Cycling/2024-04-06-QCX-R1-Nundah

Battle of Arses went down to the wire. We tend to do very well in the higher grades, we haven't traditionally had the numbers in the lower grades. Our ladies across the board did very well, our A & B Grade Men consistently strong, C Grade men I would say need a little more organisation.

Which left us with the D Grade Men, a category we don't usually have any representation. Clayton was leading but a mechanical led to an early start to the CX Race and HWCC picked up 1st to 4th and the win. Our trackies came to make up some D Grade numbers, they did that very well.

Actual results to follow, great morning, beautiful day, brilliant racing and some wonderful banter. Well done UQ, congratulations HWCC!

Some amazing prizes on offer for tomorrows Open CX Podiums!

1st Wholegrain Frooty Rings
2nd Prairie Spiced Ham
3rd Brunswick Bonless Herring Fillets!

And ofcourse, the Mid-Pack Six Packs!

Nundahdome 10am to 3.30pm

Yes there's coffee!

AusCycling - QLD Clubs and Community
Queensland Cyclocross

CX Prepped and Ready to go tomorrow.
Nundah 10am to 3.30pm.
Bring Cow Bell.
Coffee Van.
Gunter Awarded Photographer
Mat Gilfedder

Thanks for the help Alistair Lang, Hayley Jones, Michael Jordan, Oliver, Zac and Ella!

AusCycling - QLD Clubs and Community
Queensland Cyclocross
RATS Cycling Club

UQ's Mr Nice Guy Korey Boddington has scored a World Silver just ahead of Qld's beloved Michael Shippley Bronze at the Worlds in Rio! Brilliant work lads!

We had out first meeting of the new Executive and Committee last week and it was decided to start the process of upgrading the Club kit design and consideration of the best supplier to manufacture it.

This process doesn't exclude our current supplier. Consideration of the best supplier for the club will include but not limited to kit quality, range, lead time, service, sizing, cost, delivery, ethical manufacturing, relationship to the Club, Junior sizing and so on.

We'd like to include a new Track skinsuit in consultation with our Track Committee and a Junior specific variation that's a bit more fun and appealing to the youngsters.

Best of luck to the QLD State Track Team competing at the 2024 AusCycling Track National Championship starting today.

Especially our UQCC riders Brycen Fletcher, Josh Hak, Maddison Taylor and Courtney McGowen. Team Manager Bear Liang and Head Mechanic Shayne Hendren.

Sizzling Summer Series RESULTS

Sensational results for Uni at the first round of the Sizzling Summer Series. And thanks Ian Boyle for compiling the results:

MA MORAN, Sean Prime x2

WA NANFRA, Vanessa 1st
WA NEARHOS, Jade 3rd

WB MCGOWAN, Courtney 2nd

MB DOUGLAS, Nik 1st
MB STEDMAN, Dougal 2nd
MB ALLINGHAM, Thomas 3rd + Prime

MC CORNISH, Lachlan Prime

MMA DUGGAN, Shannon 1st
MMA Hollonds, James 3rd

MMB SCOTT, Peter 1st
MMB SPENCE, Shane 2nd

JM17 SCOTT, Jack 1st

U11 LARKINS, Judd 1st

Thanks Logan Cycling Club and AusCycling - QLD Clubs and Community for another fantastic edition of this great event.

Congratulations to all the riders who podiumed!

Thanks to everyone who attended the UQCC AGM this morning. Proud to present the 2024 Executive and Club Committee.

EXECUTIVE
President Bear Liang
VP/Race Director Julian DB
Secretary John Tunney
Treasurer Ian Boyle

COMMITTEE
Track Captain Brycen Fletcher
Women's Captain Emily Yorkson
Volunteers Coordinator Jamie O'Neill
Juniors Captain Adrian Larkins
Student Rep' Caleb Blichfeldt

Huge thanks to the following members who made a huge contribution to the Club in 2023 and will continue to do so in an informal capacity.

Outgoing
Michael Johnston Treasurer
Nick Westwood Vice President
Scott Slade Vice President
Liz Young Women's Rep
Luke Gillogley Student Rep

UQCC Junior Arin Seok placed 2nd in both the QLD State Series Rd1 and the Oceania Championship.🥈🥈

Probably inevitable someone would try to turn the idea of an 'enhanced' sporting contest into a reality. It's a business model to make money but its clearly a threat to fair sport. The natural progression of this is to damage fair sport.
Once records are broken, fair sport will be undermined, viewers and supporters will become less interested in fair sport and it will struggle for financial viability. Supporters of enhanced sport will say fair sport is compromised anyway.

Then the freak show will start as athletes go further and further down the rabbit hole. Next thing kids will be systematically 'enhanced' by over zealous parents and coaches. The rules are there to protect the athletes and the sport. Imagine the money available from the 'supplement' providers.

The enhanced games are using lots of rhetoric to counter the moral dilemma and judging from society's recent track record I think they might get traction, especially if past Olympians get onboard.

Those of us involved in fair sport are the only defense against this new threat to our sport, and our Athletes.

UQCC Executive Meeting - February 2024

Few things discussed at tonight's meeting:

Our new entry portal is up and running and we've had 120 members access the portal. Huge thanks to Simon Dickson.

Discussed some members who could be considered for Life Membership. Discussed the criteria for Life Membership.

The Club invested a lot of money in CC/MB and State Road Races. Discussed how to get this shortfall of around $10,000 back into the coffers.

Few nominations for positions on the Committee and a new appointment of Tresurer to be ratified at the AGM. Due to the lengthy process to transition the position we have appointed the Tresurer in advance and as we only had the one nomination.

Track group applying for a Grant for new equipment both for the Club and for AusCycling's benefit. The Club also has a grant application for funding to assist with female participation and development.

UQCC will continue to support the Masters Team in the new look QRTS and provide some funding for Balmorals Team who have made positions available for UQCC women.

Discussed injured riders in the Club and how they are recovering.

Club was about to purchase a 6 x 3 Marquee but we decided to try and fund it through the grant process in the first instance.

Have a new Committee nomination for a Website Coordinator who will update and manage the website.

Looking forward to the Crit on Saturday.
See you there.

Love 🐻

UQ CRIT NUNDAH THIS SATURDAY
FEB 10

We are in the process of adopting a new Entry Portal system developed by Simon Dickson from Gold Coast CC. The fundamental reasons for adopting this particular system:

1. It's free and free to use. Important as our Crits are free.
2. It verifies licenses with AusCyclings TidyHQ.
3. Login is the same as your TidyHQ/Auscycling Login
4. It's been developed locally.
5. It's very good!

The link to the system will change to a UQCC domain but for the time being, the link to the portal to enter this weekend's Crit is below:

sim.id.au/uni/

As mentioned, you login using your AusCycling membership. If you have already logged into TidyHQ it will just ask you for permission to share your details to log you in, otherwise it will bring you to a TidhHQ/Auscycling login page.

Anyone who has any issues, turn your device off and turn it on again. If this doesn't fix the problem there's no helping you. No seriously, any issues call someone, just not me.

Entry Link: sim.id.au/uni/

Huge thanks from UQCC to Simon Dickson for developing this system and sharing it with University of Queensland Cycle Club. Greatly appreciate all your time and effort!