Cycling Southland News Archive

Good chilly Tuesday to you all out there,

Well it’s not long now until the Commonwealth Games, just 8 days and a few hours away, and the Junior Worlds in Korea, being held from 8 to 12 August, and all our fantastic Southland representatives are doing their darndest to get the final lead-in right on track for optimum results at these event.

Recently Cycling Southland and Sport Otago combined resources to run another successful annual Top Bike competition in Alexandra.

Four years ago Laura Heywood walked into a velodrome for the first time. Next month she'll take on the world in Korea. NATHAN BURDON explains.

Entries for the 2015 Distinction Hotels Milford Mountain Classic are OPEN!

Fairfax cycling writer NATHAN BURDON caught up with BikeNZ endurance rider Pieter Bulling ahead of this month's Commonwealth Games.

I love the team's pursuit.

Hi everyone for another chilly week!

Things are definitely hot in terms of action down at the track on Sunday though for the Crowe Horwath Corporate Pursuit. Well done to everyone involved – both on and off the bike – it was another fantastic day with some awesome racing and battles on track.

The 2014 Cycling Southland Annual General Meeting will be held in the Sarah Ulmer Lounge on Thursday 24 July at 7:00pm.

After five years of trying, Fonterra have won the battle of the corporates in Southland, with regard to track cycling.

A crew from three Southland schools - Southland Girls' High, Southland Boys' High and James Hargest College travelled up to South Island Secondary School Road Champs, in Christchurch on Friday and it was a trip well worth the effort with some great results.

Saturday saw the start of the Winter Road racing series with a point’s race on the Donovan Park course.  Despite the poor forecast 37 riders turned up ready to race with relatively even numbers throughout divisions 1, 2 and 3.

Imagine that there is a super-Olympics, in which athletes from different sports were judged on the same standard. Who would win? Who would be the fittest? Lionel Messi? Chris Froome? Manny Pacquiao? LeBron James?

BikeNZ endurance rider Cameron Karwowski shares a slice of his life as a professional cyclist with Fairfax cycling writer NATHAN BURDON in a regular spotlight on New Zealand professional cyclists competing overseas.

The finals of the Lone Star Speights Roller Racing produced the fastest times of the series.  7 teams lined up for a crack at becoming the 2014 champion and along with plenty of vocal support the atmosphere at the Lonestar was again buzzing with anticipation.

Greetings from the other side of the world sports fans. After over a day travelling we stepped off the plane in Atlanta (USA's biggest airport for you trivia nuts) to be nearly knocked back by an intense wall of heat.

Hi everyone and it is certainly a little bit encouraging to know that we’re already one third of the way through winter – and it certainly looks like it’s going point out that it’s winter for real judging by the forecast for the rest of the week!