AusCycling
2025 AusCycling Road Nationals - Team Time Trial (Club Teams)

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Date
Thu, 9 Jan 2025
Course
Time Trial Location
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Policy Notice

By entering this event, you agree to the following:

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Event Type: Club Team Time Trial
Entry Fees: $80 + payment card fee (per participant)
Entries close: at midnight on 27th December 2024
Location: Perth, WA

Please visit the event website for more details.

Entries close Friday 27th December


Riders will be required to hold one of the following:

  • A current AusCycling ‘Race – All Discipline’ membership (for all Road Races, Time Trials [U19, U23 and Elite] and Criteriums), OR;
  • A current AusCycling ‘LifeStyle’ or ‘Off-Road’ membership for all Team Time Trials, OR;
  • A 2025 UCI Licence

Entry categories

  • Open (minimum age category Under 19)
  • Masters 90+
  • Masters 120+
  • Masters 150 +
  • Masters 180 +

Age groups are by total age of the youngest three members, according to the 2025 age year (i.e. age at December 31,2025).


Regulations

Team Requirements

  1. Can be teams of 3 or 4 and maybe be single gender or mixed.
  2. All members of each team must hold AusCycling membership from the club they are representing (Race-All Discipline, Off-Road, or Lifestyle license).
  3. All team members must wear matching approved club kit or plain kit.
  4. Clubs may enter as many teams as they like, however riders may only be registered to one team.
  5. Combined club teams (i.e. combined teams from different clubs) are not permitted.
  6. Riders must only enter as part of their primary club unless the primary club is not participating in a specific category where they may then participate with any additional club that they are affiliated with.

Equipment Regulations

  1. This TTT ONLY permits road bikes, no time trial bikes are permitted.
  2. Bikes MUST meet the UCI rules for mass start events. That means no aerobars, no disc wheels, etc.
  3. Time Trial helmets and shoe covers will be permitted.

Race Procedure

  1. The riders of each team shall present at the bike check point no later than 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.
  2. At the start, the riders shall be held side by side on the starting line and then released, not pushed, by holders who shall be the same for all teams.
  3. Start time gaps will be determined by race officials based on entries and course.

Timekeeping

  1. Time shall be taken on the third rider.
  2. Finishing times shall be taken to the nearest one-tenth of a second at least.

Team conduct during the race

  1. A team, upon catching another, shall leave a lateral gap of at least 2 metres between them.
  2. After 1 km, the team caught shall ride at least 25 m away from the other.
  3. The exchange of food, drinks, small items of equipment, wheels and bicycles and help with running repairs shall be permitted between riders of the same team

Following vehicles

  1. The driver of the following vehicle shall hold a current AusCycling or CA membership.
  2. The following vehicle shall follow at least 15 metres behind the last rider of the team, shall never overtake it nor draw up level with it. In the case of a breakdown, technical support may be rendered only with the rider and vehicle stationery on the left side of the road.
  3. The vehicle may not take up position between the team and any rider(s) that has/have dropped behind unless they are at least 50 metres apart. The riders that have dropped behind may under no circumstances ride in the slipstream of a vehicle.
  4. The following vehicle of a team that is about to be caught up shall, as soon as the distance between the two teams drops below 100 metres, drop back behind the vehicle of the other team.
  5. A vehicle following a team that catches up another may not take up position between the teams unless there are at least 60 metres between them. Should that gap subsequently reduce, the vehicle shall return to its position behind the last rider of the 2nd team.
  6. Megaphones or loud-hailers may be used.
  7. No occupant of a following vehicle may reach or lean out of the vehicle under any circumstances.

Disqualification

If one rider is disqualified the team shall be disqualified and the classification shall be adjusted.

Awards

Jerseys will be presented to all members of the winning team in each age and gender category. Medals will be presented to 1st, 2nd and 3rd in all age and gender categories.


Scratching / Refunds

100% refunds will be provided until close of entry. After the close of entry there will be no refunds under any circumstances.


Contact Information

AusCycling

For all entry and event information or queries
road@auscycling.org.au
https://www.roadnationals.org.au/


Additional Information

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Entry prices

Online pricing:

Regular entry
$80.00

A payment card fee of $1.28 will be applied.

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