Riders were greeted by cold, crisp conditions for the third race in the Footscray Cycling Club’s Salter Series, a challenging 80-kilometre circuit taking riders around Kirksbridge in Little River.
Brunswick rider Vincent Geluwie staged a daring breakaway with Footscray’s Josh Zammit with 15 kilometres to go in the A-grade race.
The pair built up a 40-second lead that they held through good communication
and co-operation all the way to the finish line. With the South Coast Cycling Team working hard to deliver equal points leader Todd Satchel to the finish, it looked like the ‘escapees’ might be caught close to the line. But Dutch-born Geluwie, 32, held on to take the win.
“Fortunately, Josh had just done a long turn on the front, so I had the best position coming up to the line,”
Geluwie said.
Todd Satchel took third in the messy bunch sprint, tantalisingly close to second-placed Zammit.
