The Toronto International Bicycle Show is happening March 5 - 7, 2010 at the Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place 

Friday, March 5 Noon - 9 pm 
Saturday, March 6 10 am - 7 pm 
Sunday, March 7 10 am - 6pm 
Tickets $13.00

Visit http://www.bicycleshowtoronto.com/ for more info!

After a lengthy downtime and lack of updates, the Madonna Wheelers website is back and fully functional! Unfortunately, during the upgrade process, all existing member accounts were lost. If you have not done so yet, please create a new account to access additional features available only to registered club members.

For those wondering, we have had to completely rebuild the site from scratch, as the beta version of the software we were using was no longer supported, and there was no migration path to a new version. Your existing madonnawheelers.ca email accounts were not affected. The new version of Joomla is much improved, and we have managed to integrate the Photos section right into the site now!

Watch this space for updates over the off season, as we integrate a bunch of new ideas!

Congratulations to the Champions of the 2009 Madonna Wheelers Cycling Club Championships:
Category “A” & Overall Club Champion – Hank Verhoeven
Category “B” Champion – Ronnie des Vignes

More PHOTOS from the championships are available HERE

Our Club Championships concluded today in beautiful sunny and cool temperatures. Thanks Lorne, Gabe, Sheila, Elf and Jane for organising and photography. Having missed the first half Derek showed up and proved he would have been in contention for the overall honours by winning both the Road Race in 1 hour 5 minutes (Avg. 43.33 km/h) and the Hill Climb in a new record time of 0:54:11 previously held by Ed Ounjian at 0:55:41 in 2000.

The overall winner however having won the Sprint, Time Trial and placing second in the Criterium, Road Race and Hill Climb is the new 2009 Club Champion Hank Verhoeven. Jeff having been stuck in California on business and Dan nursing an injured knee (from hiking not cycling) will be back next year with renewed energy and respect for the challenge.

The B group was just as interesting with Peter Hein back from 3 weeks in Europe (No cycling) winning both of today’s events.
The overall winner however and 2009 B Champion is Ronnie des Vignes having placed 2nd in the Time Trial, Road Race and Hill Climb as well as 3rd in the Sprint and the Criterium. Chantal and Jason proved they were competitive with Chantal winning the Criterium and Jason placing second in the Sprint.

We missed you Wayne, Tom, Dennis and Joseph for different reasons and hope you will be back next year when again we hope to have enough participation to justify 3 categories.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Hank and Ronnie.

Congratulations Dan Thompson for finishing second in his category at the 40km Via Italia Criterium in Windsor last weekend.

Reminder one week from today Sunday, September 20th at 9:00 a.m. 40km road race for the A group and 20km for the B group same venue as previous years near Stouffville. Following the road race we head to the hill near the zoo for the hill climb and prize distribution of the 2009 Club Championships. Hope to see as many as possible even if only to cheer for the ones suffering.

The Madonna Club Championships are happening this weekend, but we have changed the location of the Criterium course for Sunday, as the Loblaws course appears to be under heavy construction. The Road Race and Hill Climb events will still happen out of Scarborough on Saturday, while the Sprint and Criterium events will now be held on Sunday at the Tahoe Blvd circuit. Hope everyone can make it out! Be there by 9am!