Hi everyone. Oak Bay Bikes, one of the club's main sponsors, is organising a cyclo-cross at Bowen Park on Monday, October 8th. Volunteers are needed to help set up (8.00am) and take down the course, plus two people to help at the food concession. Free entry for all who help. If you are available please contact Sean or Corey at oakbaybikesnanaimo@gmail.com
10 laps of a 1.3km circuit
| Name | Club | Time | Points |
| Paul Thompson | MIVA | 31' 44” | 12 |
| Justin Mark | BC Cycling | (see notes) | 10 |
| Kyle Waring | MIVA | At 48” | 9 |
| Judy Villeneuve (W) | MIVA | At 1 lap | 12 |
| Cheryl Morch (W) | MIVA | At 1 lap | 10 |
| Dick Jung | Ind. | Lapped | 9 |
| Kirby Villeneuve | MIVA | DNF | 2 |
MIVA CYCLO -CROSS CLINIC # 4 CORNERING, CROSS CAMBER TURNING, COURSE PRE-RIDE. The turn-out tonight was lower than usual and two of those present had to leave quickly. Topics covered included pre-riding the course and what to watch for, cornering faster, and cross camber turning. A chicane was put on the hill, with riders required to descend cross camber and make a 140 degree turn at speed. Most of the participants were able to negotiate the turn quite well and, on the fourth run and up, all had nailed it.
The 30 minute race included the chicane, three artificial barriers and a techical run through a bunch of trees. Paul Thompson took the early lead but was joined by latecomer Justin Mark on lap two. For a brief while, Kirby Villeneuve cruised out front but on lap four, Kyle Waring surged ahead.
As the second half of the race approached, Paul, Kyle and Justin started to ride away from Kirby, with Judy Villeneuve, Dick Jung and Cheryl Morch falling further back each lap.
At the front end, Justin stopped to tighten his seat bolt (he only finished assembling his bike that afternoon. Once the seat was fixed, he set off in hot pursuit of the leaders and was soon in contact.
With four laps to go, Kirby retired with stomach pains, leaving Paul and Justin to battle for the lead, with Kyle, who was paying for his earlier effort, a distant third and the rest of the field lapped.
With one lap to go, Justin was leading with Paul right behind him and Kyle soldiering on in third.Judy had just been lapped and Cheryl had caught and dropped Dick who had slowed to a crawl.
At the line, Justin finished first,with Paul four seconds behind and Kyle third at fifty seconds. As Justin had ridden a lap less than Paul, the top two positions were reversed.
- We reprint the following article by Sports Reporter, Rupert Guinness without comment.
Rupert Guinness
The world body of cycling last week let a vital chance to salvage its credibility slip through its grasp by denying that it should apologise for the sport's doping problems.At the world road championships in the Netherlands, the Union Cycliste Internationale was meant to have shown reassuring leadership at a time of crisis, rather than let so many down.
Now, instead of the UCI reaching an accord with its growing number of detractors over its handling of the doping problems, the UCI hierarchy faces a revolution from within.
The body's position to reject calls to recognise its role in the recent history of doping has been seen by some in the sport as worse than a missed opportunity to take accountability - especially at a time when other stakeholders in the sport are willing to declare the error of past judgments.
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It is seen instead as a snub to its constituents who want the problem of doping tackled once and for all - that is, if the UCI really does have the sport's best interest at heart.
But in the wake of recent events, many now doubt that it has. They include the United States Anti-Doping Agency's stripping of Lance Armstrong's seven Tour de France wins after he decided to not answer doping charges against him. The UCI is yet to ratify the USADA verdict, and will not do so until it reads the findings which it has not yet received. But there are reports that those findings into Armstrong and five associates also charged will lead to claims against the UCI. Placing further pressure on the UCI have been detailed descriptions of alleged doping practices on Armstrong's teams - and others - by one of his former teammates, Tyler Hamilton, in his recently launched book The Secret Race, co-authored by Dan Coyle.
One of the claims is that the UCI covered up a positive test by Armstrong in the 2001 Tour de Suisse, an allegation previously made by another former Armstrong teammate, Floyd Landis, who was also stripped off his 2006 Tour win after testing positive in a dope control.
Then the UCI last week rejected a proposed truth and reconciliation commission into doping initially floated by UCI president Pat McQuaid, and USADA head Travis Tygart said in the French sports paper L'Equipe that he received death threats during the Armstrong investigation.
Add to that the UCI's intent to sue Irish journalist Paul Kimmage, whose 1990 book A Rough Ride exposed doping in professional cycling at the time and set a platform for investigation that may have stymied the problem had more journalists - myself included - pursued the issued with greater vigour.
Kimmage, who has been one of a minority to doggedly pursue doping, unfairly became a pariah in the sport for "spitting in the soup" as omerta spread in cycling. His aim was never to seek fame or fortune, but to encourage change in the sport. He certainly hasn't enjoyed riches. Last year, he was let go by Britain's Sunday Times - but in a cost-cutting process - and is still out of work.
Yet Kimmage is still subject to legal action by McQuaid and his Dutch predecessor at the UCI, Hein Verbruggen, who have threatened to sue him for his work in the Sunday Times, based on an extensive interview in 2010 with Landis, and for comments he then made in an interview with L'Equipe.
The allegations made then have since been corroborated by other publications and books - the latest being The Secret Race.
The case, to be heard in a Swiss court on December 12, appears personal, with McQuaid and Verbruggen not suing the Sunday Times for running Kimmage's work, or L'Equipe for publishing his comments.
It is also seen by many observers as the UCI delivering a message that it won't be criticised.
Little wonder in this environment there is disillusionment, anger and mistrust of the UCI. The call for a broom to be swept through its hierarchy is growing louder by the week, especially in light of the UCI's doggedness to nobble Kimmage at a time when many feel the UCI should be spending more time and money into addressing many of the other problems facing the sport.
But at the world titles the UCI distanced itself from any blame for the doping problem.
At a press conference there, McQuaid told media: "The UCI has nothing to be apologetic about ... The UCI has always been the international federation that does the most against doping."
But the support for Kimmage, and opposition to the UCI, is a reply by the masses that the UCI must heed. When Kimmage's close friend, mentor and fellow-Irish journalist David Walsh, another staunch anti-doping advocate, opened a Twitter account last week he called for support of Kimmage and free media. Readers quickly suggested a Paul Kimmage defence fund be set up.
By Wednesday morning (Australian time), the fund created by cycling sites www.nyvelocity.com and www.cyclismas.com and Twitter identity @Digger–forum totalled more than $34,000.
Donations to the fund had come from all areas of cycling - from the all-important fan who is the lifeblood of the sport, to the media, riders, ex-riders, management and support staff. It also attracted massive Twitter support, including from American triple Tour winner Greg LeMond.
And at last week's world titles journalists there also signed a petition in support of Kimmage.
Kimmage said he been humbled by it all and Tweeted on Tuesday morning that he could not sleep, that his "head has been spinning", But he added that he knew it was not about him, but instead about cycling, fixing what is wrong in it and going for broke to encourage clean cycling.
So in many ways it is about Kimmage, because without his voice and those of a brave minority who dared to speak out, the sport may not be on the cusp of the potential change it faces today.
Whether that chance is seized, requires all in the sport to recognise the wrongs committed - me included. But it must also come from up top at the UCI. If not, then those up top must go.
Charlene Stewart Shep Stewart
Nadia Plamondon
Brodie Hay
Tayden De Pol
Iain Hay
Kirby Villeneuve
Judy Villeneuve
Justin Mark
Bill McMillan
John Lam
Janna Gillick
Paul Thompson
5 points each
Janna Gillick, Paul Thompson – 5 extra points for organising and set-up