3FIDI

3fidi successfully defended its crown at the 2011 cyclegaine/multisport rogaine at Googong Dam on the weekend. The 3fidi junior development program also debuted with a huge result. Big Jeff and MMM took third overall, plus the MVO category. The final leaderboard was tight – the winning score of 1270 (5.59.00) just pipping out second 1260 (6.00.00) and third, […]

Ashley got the chance to pilot for recently retired Paralympic gold medalist Lindy Hou at the Vets meet on the weekend. This is the custom steel frame, dura ace tandem she raced on in Sydney, Athens and Beijing, in Oz team colours with Lindy and her pilot Toireasa’s names on it. We are wearing team-only […]

Sunday saw a vets Time Trial, expertly run by 3fidi’s Michael Carr. Ashley and I were there piloting separate Cannondale tandems in the vets TT, Ash had another tandem volunteer, Rosemary Robinson, as his stoker (his originally organised vision impaired person was disallowed due to age conflict i.e. 32 and vets need to be 35+) […]

… in the Tonelli Cup Handicap. The race is run on the Old Federal Highway for 43km with a handicap start (by grades). There were 3x 3fidies in B-grade (Alwyn, Michael Carr, Greg) and 2x in A-grade (Bleeksie, Peter Walbrink). A-grade started from scratch about 1:30 minutes behind B-grade and about 27 minutes behind G-grade. […]

Move out of the way…. going for yellow! Here you can see the type of bumpy downhill terrain we had in the BC bike race prologue as I pass my 2(?) minute man.