MR PRICE KZN CYCLE CLUB

The next batch of guys in our area to get bikes were Dave St Clair, Antoine Lailvaux, Ian McGregor, Roy Menzies. Families started to join in and the training rides from Stedman Garage (there was no Mews or Westville Mall in those days) to the foot of Fields Hill and back included Louise Menzies, Cheryl Lailvaux and Jocelyn Thompson. This group rode their first Pmb - Dbn race in 1988 and in the year after (I think I'm right) Steve and Andrew McCurrach had started Highway Cycles in the newly built Stedman Mews as the sport seemed to be taking off and the area would sustain a bike shop. (Dave Wiseman by this time was a millionaire I think). This was the regular drinking spot especially on a Friday evening and morning training rides then left from here. Steve and Andrew suggested starting a  

Show more

club and a steering committee was formed in mid 1989 with the first meeting in the back of the Shop. The first Chairman elected (by about 15 guys and girls present) was Steve with yours truly as Secretary with committee members Antoine Lailvaux (social) and Ian McGregor. The club was called " WESTVILLE CYCLING CLUB". Some years later when Dave St. Clair was chairman he arbitrarily changed the name to Mr Price KZN Cycle Club - he just didn't have the education to know better!! In 1988, we all entered the Pmb - Dbn Race and needed to do longer rides than the 20 k's or so from Westville to Pinetown! We agreed to meet at what was then known as the "Cattleman" on Durban's North Beach on Saturday mornings (5 o'clock start in summer and 5.30 in winter) and that group quickly swelled to include the Kings Park riders. There was segregation in those days and each club stuck together. KCC had started long before us and had all the good riders (mainly from track racing) - WCC was very much a social club. To give you an idea how "social" we were - Rupert Swart had no cycling kit at all and regularly came down in sleeping shorts.