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Wildside MTB - NE
Tasmania, Australia, January 28-31, 2006
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Stage 2 - January 28: Que River, 19km
Punctures cost Taberley as Jongewaard takes lead
By Joe Ward
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After a break from the freakish Tassie heat, riders lined up for Stage 2 from Que River to Tullah. The first 10 km of the stage is buff pebbly fireroad, just the recipe for fast racing and the occasional two wheel drift though blind corners!
After a very loud gaseous distraction by one of the younger Cannondale-Maxxis team members 10 seconds before the gun, the elite men were off. Taberlay off the front within 200 meters, challenging all comers to play catch me if you can.
But his lead was to be short lived, suffering a flat on the one of the many rocky and rutted downhills. After a quick repair Taberlay made it back to the group only to puncture again! His CO2 cartridges also failed, taking him 4 mins to get going.
Teammate Jongewaard fresh from winning the STXC national championship 2 weeks ago and backing that up with a 9th place in the GC at the Tour Down Under showed he still has something left in the legs to power to the line in 42 min 40 secs another new course record. U-23’s Adrian Jackson and Alistair Farley took 2nd and 3rd.
Taberlay’s title defence looks in doubt as he now sits in 5th, 5 and a half minutes down on the leader Jongwaard.
The women’s race also had an upset with Niki Fisher cracking Lisa Mathison by over 2 minutes putting her into the overall lead. Katrin Van der Spiegel again placed 3rd keeping her 3rd overall.
In the middle of the pack riders arrived grinning and not coated in the usual mud but dust! The carnage both mechanical and human attests to Wildside’s claim of being not just a bike race, but an adventure. One rider taco’ing a wheel in the morning stage, buying a new one at the lunch stop and whacking a flat spot in it by the close of racing today.
This year sees the first tandem negotiating the wild terrain of Tassie’s west coast as well as a couple of singlespeeders who after tomorrow’s stage up Mt Murchison will be begging race sponsor SRAM’s race rep Rob Eva for some of that company’s 9 speed goods.
Photography
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Images by Rick Eaves
- Sid Taberlay desperately trying to make up time after two broken chains on stage 2 (Que River) cost him the lead.
- Simon Fielding (Tasmania)
- Victorian Scott Ash hangs tight through a slippery gravel single-track near the end of the Que River stage.
- A group of riders leaves the starter in a cloud of dust, surprise on the normally waterlogged alpine moorland.
Results
Individual Mens Under 23 1 Adrian Jackson (VIC) 45.36 2 Alistair Farley (VIC) 0.02 3 Cal Britten (VIC) 1.06 4 Lachlan Norris (VIC) 1.30 5 Hamish Elliot (NSW) 1.34 6 Aiden Lefmann (NSW) 2.47 7 Nathan Haas (ACT) 3.34 8 Daniel Braunsteins (VIC) 3.43 9 Daniel Hallam (QLD) 3.52 10 Jamie Paisley (VIC) 3.54 11 Glenn Stewart (NSW) 5.03 12 Garry Millburn (NSW) 6.21 13 Luke Wisby (TAS) 7.35 14 Darren Kruger (VIC) 7.48 15 Joey Esterhuyzen (NSW) 9.00 16 Andrew Maynard (TAS) 9.33 17 Bernard Sulzberger (TAS) 9.36 18 Martin Dzioba (VIC) 10.32 19 Josh Keep (NSW) 10.35 20 James Porter (TAS) 16.00 21 Matthew Hope (TAS) 16.27 22 Rohan Dingemanse (TAS) 17.12 23 Jeremy Hills (TAS) 19.43 24 Joshua Atkinson (NSW) 20.52 25 Joel Guseli (VIC) 52.33 Individual Mens Open 1 Chris Jongewaard (SA) 43.40 2 Alex Randall (VIC) 3.35 3 Sid Taberlay (TAS) 6.10 4 Christophe Stevens (Belgium) 7.03 5 Ashley Hyatt (VIC) 7.56 6 David Wood (QLD) 8.15 7 Brett Smith (QLD) 8.44 8 Simon Fielding (TAS) 8.59 9 Martin Dingemanse (TAS) 9.08 10 Mick Café (NT) 9.30 11 Steven Brown (TAS) 9.35 12 Adam Shepard (NSW) 10.03 13 Luke Rapley (QLD) 10.09 14 Peter Freeman (QLD) 10.11 15 Damon Griggs (TAS) 10.46 16 Troy Melrose (NSW) 11.19 17 Steven Blake (TAS) 12.02 18 Brett Franklin (VIC) 12.05 19 Nicholas Deane (VIC) 12.10 20 Michael Thorne (TAS) 12.19 21 Mark Ferguson (VIC) 12.26 22 John Waddell (WA) 12.31 23 Jonathan Gregg (WA) 12.40 24 Mark Padgett (TAS) 13.29 25 Oliver Laing (NSW) 13.31 26 Greg Sherriff (TAS) 14.03 27 Scott Hosking (VIC) 14.30 28 Ash Scott (VIC) 29 Daniel Hodge (TAS) 14.39 30 Philip Crothers (TAS) 14.59 31 Mark Travers (NSW) 15.17 32 Dave Nairn (WA) 15.20 33 Andrew Ling (TAS) 34 Angelo Fazzalari (SA) 15.50 35 Adrian Stewart (VIC) 15.58 36 Grant Rowbottom (TAS) 16.05 37 Clinton Lawry (NZ) 17.13 38 Bradley McCloud (SA) 17.17 39 Leo Simmonds (UK) 17.56 40 Shaun Lauder (QLD) 18.10 41 Ben Crabb (ACT) 18.13 42 Jared Scollay (NZ) 18.32 43 Gerard Thompson (VIC) 18.33 44 Matthew Holligan (TAS) 18.42 45 Richard Quinn (TAS) 19.34 46 Ashley Noble (TAS) 19.41 47 Scott Rowell (TAS) 19.58 48 Benjamin Madden (QLD) 21.16 49 Alexander Hendriks (WA) 21.18 50 Damon Wicki (WA) 21.27 51 Thomas Paton (TAS) 21.38 52 Scott Pomroy (VIC) 21.39 53 Martin Stephenson (NSW) 54 Tim Ogden (ACT) 22.04 55 Martin Robards (TAS) 22.09 56 Christopher Fice (VIC) 23.18 57 Matthew Davis (TAS) 23.25 58 Benjamin Groenwold (WA) 23.27 59 Clive Poulton (TAS) 23.28 60 Campbell Junor (QLD) 23.41 61 Gerben Graske-Borst (VIC) 24.05 62 John Anderson (TAS) 24.07 63 Andrew P Ling (TAS) 24.50 64 Michael Plakalovic (TAS) 24.58 65 Jaison Hoernel Bryn Coutts (VIC) 25.15 66 Hieu Nguyen (NSW) 25.18 67 Joe Ward (NSW) 25.30 68 John Uren (NSW) 25.35 69 Alan Bolton (VIC) 26.18 70 Justin Bergman (VIC) 26.26 71 Shane Wilson (TAS) 26.58 72 Matt Sherriff (WA) 27.09 73 Ben Strugnell (TAS) 28.01 74 Hugh Marsh (TAS) 30.22 75 Peter Fritz (VIC) 30.50 76 Jason Jones (TAS) 33.44 77 Edward Borst (TAS) 37.54 78 Adam Poulton (TAS) 40.29 79 Jamie Davis (SA) 40.51 80 Paul Salerno (SA) 41.35 81 Aaron Constable (NSW) 44.26 82 Travis Deane (SA) 45.58 83 Cam Sherriff (TAS) 54.06 84 Thamba Pathmanathan (NSW) 1.02.19 Individual Womens Open 1 Niki Fisher () 54.18 2 Lisa Mathison (NSW) 2.32 3 Katrin Van der Spiegel (NSW) 2.47 4 Rowena Fry (TAS) 9.27 5 Robyn Holmes (TAS) 10.47 6 Claire Garcia-Webb (WA) 11.42 7 Julie Borschmann (TAS) 12.57 8 Sam Reinhardt (ACT) 14.03 9 Jessica Rosevear (TAS) 18.09 10 Lisa Still (TAS) 19.09 11 Jane Guiver (TAS) 20.23 12 Carolyn Farrar (TAS) 21.28 13 Natalie Nohra (NSW) 23.26 14 Kirsty Busch (NSW) 27.54 15 Rebecca Hengemuhle (VIC) 28.22 16 Rachel Walker (TAS) 31.09 17 Evelyn Ritter (WA) 32.08 18 Emma Rocket (QLD) 34.23 19 Alison Mackay (TAS) 45.44 Individual Mens Veterans 1 Damien Jones (VIC) 49.57 2 Saul Britton (NSW) 1.42 3 Mark Cashion (TAS) 4.08 4 Matthew Sanderson (SA) 5.32 5 Duncan McGlashan (TAS) 8.48 6 Michael Oxley (VIC) 8.53 7 Robert Mathews (TAS) 9.09 8 Gavin Wakefield (TAS) 9.47 9 Andrew Cathcart (TAS) 10.16 10 Stu Bland (VIC) 10.35 11 Roy Langman (TAS) 10.38 12 Gordon Taylor (TAS) 11.11 13 John Fisher (TAS) 11.49 14 Paul Zuvela (WA) 11.58 15 Anthony Baker (TAS) 12.25 16 Carl Maroney (VIC) 12.35 17 Rhys Gunner (TAS) 12.44 18 Rob Dooley (NSW) 13.19 19 Jason Tolland (VIC) 13.21 20 Trent Moore (ACT) 13.39 21 Jules Evans (TAS) 13.51 22 Bradley Powles (VIC) 14.05 23 Paul Kleywegt (TAS) 14.14 24 Allan Stonestreet (NSW) 14.22 25 Christopher Males (TAS) 14.43 26 Jacob Mitchell (NSW) 14.46 27 Peter Cameron (TAS) 14.51 28 Paul Witzerman (QLD) 14.55 29 Albert Steffen (VIC) 15.05 30 Andrew Woodberry (TAS) 15.11 31 Rodney Mills (TAS) 32 Peter Handberg (VIC) 15.21 33 Marcus Langham (TAS) 15.30 34 Andrew Wright (WA) 15.32 35 Willem van den Bosch (TAS) 15.37 36 Christopher Edwards (TAS) 16.00 37 Philip Ladlow (TAS) 16.04 38 Matthias Reinhardt (Germany) 16.16 39 Ross Cayley (VIC) 18.23 40 Craig Rosevear (TAS) 18.28 41 Rodney Miller (NSW) 18.30 42 David White (VIC) 18.52 43 Tony Poutsma (QLD) 19.14 44 Tony Williams (NSW) 19.16 45 Jody Dennison (TAS) 19.34 46 Adrian Marti (WA) 19.59 47 Craig Eastaugh (TAS) 20.12 48 Andrew Findlay (NSW) 20.43 49 Peter Murray (NSW) 20.45 50 John Christiensen (WA) 20.46 51 Gary Aaron (NSW) 21.01 52 Neale Smith (TAS) 21.09 53 Mark Paynter (TAS) 22.12 54 Jack Birrell (TAS) 22.47 55 Curtis Smith (NSW) 22.59 56 Niall Kinch (NSW) 23.08 57 Martin Quinn (TAS) 23.18 58 Jim Robinson (QLD) 23.36 59 Jonathan Taylor (NSW) 24.06 60 Jeremy Ison (WA) 24.33 61 Scott Lidgett (VIC) 25.22 62 Gary Singleton (TAS) 25.46 63 David Hillier (TAS) 25.52 64 Simon Foster (TAS) 26.41 65 Keith Murfet (TAS) 30.21 66 Chris Carson (ACT) 31.48 67 Duane Goff (NSW) 37.01 68 Peter Dean (NSW) 37.36 69 Mark Connelley (TAS) 37.37 70 Philip Casale (VIC) 38.32 71 Richard De Waal (VIC) 44.21 72 Andrew Strugnell (TAS) 46.55 73 Gregory Foster (VIC) 47.19 74 Damon Bennett (NSW) 53.25 75 Bops Singh (NSW) 1.14.32 DNF Joe Loss (WA) Individual Womens Veterans 1 Freya Scollay (NSW) 1.01.13 2 Su Sprott (TAS) 3.43 3 Sharon Prutton (New Zealand) 6.36 4 Rebecca Youd (TAS) 15.24 5 Rowena Cole (WA) 23.41 6 Leanne Sherriff (TAS) 29.36 7 Louise Glasgow (NSW) 35.44 Individual Mens Masters 1 Laurie Berryman (NT) 56.27 2 Brian Scarborough (SA) 1.10 3 Andre Farley (VIC) 2.42 4 Nick Tilbrook (SA) 2.46 5 Finlay Luff (VIC) 6 Phillip Dent (TAS) 5.17 7 Darryl Smith (TAS) 6.23 8 David McAlpin (NSW) 7.42 9 Richard Roffe (TAS) 9.42 10 Craig Saunders (TAS) 12.13 11 Ian Stanley (TAS) 13.06 12 Leslie Paton (ACT) 13.12 13 Frank Clark (TAS) 14.08 14 Michael Morffew (TAS) 14.46 15 Rod Ascui (TAS) 18.57 16 Robert Guseli (VIC) 22.11 17 Dean J. Brooks (USA) 24.20 18 Kevin Joy (NSW) 24.34 19 John Dalco (TAS) 33.17 20 Malcolm Burnett (VIC) 36.02 21 Mordy Bromberg (VIC) 37.45 22 Graham Bamber (WA) 1.04.55 23 John Farrelly (WA) 1.08.09 Individual Mens - Super Masters 1 Bert Floss (WA) 1.03.44 2 Bruno Wicki (WA) 0.46 3 Phil Mathewson (NSW) 7.29 4 David Stary (TAS) 7.55 5 Keith Mobbs (TAS) 8.37 6 Philip Ogden (TAS) 10.36 7 Tony Branchflower (VIC) 10.56 8 Jeremy Atkinson (NSW) 16.02 9 Gavin Swanepoel (WA) 18.22 10 David Owen (NSW) 20.03 11 Gregory Gill (TAS) 28.32 12 David Scollay (NZ) 30.48 13 David Bennett (TAS) 39.40 Individual Single Speed 1 Keith McQueen (TAS) 56.27 2 Milford McArthur (TAS) 4.12
