Cycling Southland News Archive

New Zealand, featuring Southland riders Josh Haggerty and Liam Aitcheson, has won a silver medal on the opening day of the UCI Juniors Track Cycling World Championships in Scotland today.

The Central Otago Secondary Schools XC Mountain Bike Champs are being held again in Alexandra later in September and Southland entries are most welcome.

Steph McKenzie is getting off the sprint track and on to her trusty scooter to do the scooter challenge/scooter run again this year.

Another hotly contested night of racing over two divisions kept everyone on their game at the track on Tuesday night.

Minutes from the 2013 Annual General Meeting, held at SIT Zerofees Velodrome on 31 July 2013.

The first event of the Baxter and Neilson junior track cycling series for 2013 was the scene of some amazingly fast and skilled racing by our juniors.

Cycling Southland's three representatives at the 2013 UCI Juniors Track World Championships are in for a busy week with confirmation of their riding schedule in Glasgow.

Happy Tuesday everyone and it is great to see the sun showing itself, the daffodils appearing in gardens and lambs springing around the paddocks – definitely good for the soul!

Cycling Timaru presents the BikeNZ Junior National Points Series for U17 and U19 riders. It's a two day tour with generous prize money on 24 & 25 August.

Fine calm conditions greeted the 43 riders for the challenging Wyndham circuit, which this year saw the addition of the steep Mimihau Hill as the finish point.

EIS Group will head in to next weekend’s Crowe Horwath Corporate Pursuit Finals as the number one seed after qualifying fastest at yesterday’s Grading Time Trial in Cycling Southland’s annual business track cycling competition.

Cycling Southland’s annual Corporate Pursuit track event begins tomorrow (Sunday) at SIT Zerofees Velodrome with the first of two race days.

Another good night of racing was had by all on Tuesday. With the Madison racing series over, we were able to squeeze in four races for each Division in our one hour slot, which meant short breaks between races and the spontaneous combustion of a few riders!

The Tour of France is over for another year and so top of everyone’s minds (perhaps more on a local level than international) will be the Corporate Pursuit event to be held on the Velodrome in August. Training is well underway for teams and the very popular Roller Racing at the Lone star has been completed and has added what I think is another great dimension to the event.

Check out the results from last Griday night's Junior Racing.

Exciting days are looming for our 30 business teams who have been working hard down at the track to prepare for the 2013 WHK Corporate Pursuit.

The country’s most promising track cyclists may have a new path to follow to develop their talents on and off the bike with the investigation of a new initiative based at Cycling Southland's SIT Zerofees Velodrome in Invercargill.

The Spirit of Coromandel Trust and Arc Adventure Racing have some great racing opportunities pre-Christmas with the Cranleigh K2 Cycle event.

The Contact Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge are sending out the challenge to teams of all abilities to take part in one of this year’s 15 event categories.

Handicap racing isn’t for everyone - it’s the purest form of racing - a test of being able to work as a team, some of our riders learnt today that breaking away alone or going out too fast only destroys the bunch.