With all the hitters out to play, we had three competitive grades of racing this week, with some excellent displays of speed and strength across all divisions.

A couple of years ago Pieter Bulling's cycling career was on the skids, now the Southland rider is eyeing a shot at the Olympics in Rio in 2016.

Hello everyone and we’re still blowing and raining through another week of October – it would be remarkable if it blew and rained itself out in time for the SBS Bank Tour of Southland in less than two weeks – imagine that!!