Cycling Southland News Archive

The final heat of the Lone Star-Speights Roller Racing Challenge saw strong performances across the night.

Dear Cycling Federation or Club,

My husband Peter, and I, sponsor the Devonport Carnival Women's Wheel, which is the richest Women's Wheelrace in Australia.

Gidday everyone and hope you’re all managing to keep warm!

First and foremost a huge thank you to all the willing volunteers who spent a couple of hours of their personal time at the Velodrome on Saturday arvo to help tidy up our track bike fleet for the Corporate Pursuit – hugely appreciated thank you all!! 

On Saturday 28 November 2015 the 39th annual Contact Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge will be taking place and we hope you and your club members will join us.

Greetings folks,
Great to see the sun out for a but over the weekend and early in the week in the deep south – makes getting out on the bike all the easier, Well it’s another block buster week of news so we’ll cut straight to the chase!

One of only three teams to have competed in all 10 editions of the Cycling Southland Corporate Pursuits, the AWS Legal team scorched through the 500m on the first night of Roller Racing at the Lone Star.

The recent Central Otago Top Bike Competition was held recently at Alexandra with a total of 39 teams representing schools from throughout the Central Otago region taking part.

And so it began under the Friday Night Lights in Trexlertown.

The 40th season of racing at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center kicked off with some of the best sprint racing the track has seen in quite some time with riders from 11 nationals competing for UCI points to qualify for World Cups.

And so it began under the Friday Night Lights in Trexlertown.

The 40th season of racing at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center kicked off with some of the best sprint racing the track has seen in quite some time with riders from 11 nationals competing for UCI points to qualify for World Cups.

And so it began under the Friday Night Lights in Trexlertown.

The 40th season of racing at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center kicked off with some of the best sprint racing the track has seen in quite some time with riders from 11 nationals competing for UCI points to qualify for World Cups.

Welcome to a short week after the buzz of an additional day added to the weekend yesterday,
A big congratulations to our 2104-2015 ILT Sports Awards finalists who were announced at a special function on Thursday night. 

Cycling New Zealand will take their biggest and strongest group of sprint cyclists to USA and Europe for a training and racing block to prepare for this summer’s all-important international campaign, including six elite Southland riders - more than half the squad.

Some of New Zealand’s leading cyclists will get a baptism of fire when they return to track competition across the Tasman tomorrow, including siz Southland elite and under 19 riders.

Welcome to another week team – albeit a very wintery one.

It’s great to see the track sessions getting busier as Corporate Pursuiters bolster the numbers in preparation for their challenge at the end of June.

As a 13-year-old, Allan Dunn climbed on his rickety bike and went for a training ride with a mate.

Four of Southland's stars of the future have been named in the Pathway to Podium programme.