Self Righteous Cyclist

In the absence of most of the road riding events over the past two years, my mate Jason and myself from the Brunswick Cycling Club decided to head to Kingston, a tiny hamlet between Ballarat and Daylesford, with a school, a church, a pub and a showground with a grandstand that had a touch of the Field of Dreams about it. “Build it and they will come” and so we did. 48 riders signed on the John Collier Memorial Handicap on Saturday 27 th November. The race consisted of 3, 28km laps course before finishing on a slight rise in the main street of Kingston.  In what was a race of attrition, only 22 of those 48 finished.    In a fitting touch to the initial race sponsor, John Collier, the starting commissaire mentioned that this race had been held since 1972 and that John put money into the event to help promote cycling in the area in the hope that it might help unearth some future Olympians. It’s a great story and one of the many about John told at the presentations by his 92 year old