Cycling Southland News Archive

The 2013 Cycling Southland Annual General Meeting will be held in the Sarah Ulmer Lounge on Wednesday 31 July at 7:00pm.  

Kiwi sprinters Eddie Dawkins and Simon van Velthooven have carried their strong form in Europe on to success at the first day of the international track cycling series in Adelaide.

Another good night of early season racing under the belt, with again a small (but quality!) turn out, across two divisions, and finishing off with a Madison for those who took part in the Madison training through June.

A nine-strong BikeNZ track cycling team, including a trio of elite Southlanders, will contest three Tier One UCI events in Adelaide starting tonight.

A big gidday for another week and hope you’re all managing to keep warm and well as this little wintry blast remains settled over the majority of the country. 

It has been a great six weeks since arriving in Valencia. We have now finished up the European phase of racing and are beginning the long journey to Adelaide (Via Auckland).

The handful of weeks that can loosely be described as the off-season at Cycling Southland are over with the restart of our weekend club road racing series on Saturday.

The first race of the season began with a mixed reception from the weather gods. To race or not to race would have been the question asked by a few.

Having a quiet with a few workmates took on a new meaning for some local businesses recently.  A number of extra shades of red and white were on display upon the faces of the competitors at the first and second heats of the recent roller racing challenge.

This year’s Tour of Southland cycle race will carry and important road safety message, with this week’s announcement of a new partnership between event hosts Cycling Southland and Road Safety Southland.

Small but quality fields graced the track on Tuesday, for our first night of winter racing. 

Well, if you’re already hooked on the 2013 Tour de France action, a lack of sleep could be starting to make itself felt.

BikeNZ’s sprint cyclists have beaten world champions Germany in the team sprint at the German Grand Prix in Cottbus over the weekend with the Southland trio of Dawkins, Archibald and Beadle again all featuring.

With the 2013 Tour de France beginning in Corsica on Saturday night (NZ time), so too began a month of sleep deprivation for cycling fans.

What a week! Tumultuous weather across the country, the announcement of new naming rights for both the SIT Veldrome and ILT Stadium Southland – so it’s not just the wintry blast making life very cool at the moment! We’re also noticing the change of vista with the back straight imminently coming into view as the scaffolding starts to come down.

WHAT do you reckon is one of the main reasons most kids quit sport? While you're pondering, let's absorb this stat from the US: Each year 20 million children register for baseball, soccer, football, hockey and other competitive sports; about 70 per cent of those will quit by age 13.

Of all the sporting victories recorded over the weekend, Saturday's announcement regarding the securing of naming rights for the rebuilt Stadium Southland and the Velodrome was a biggest win for the sporting sector.

Teenager Hamish Keast has succeeded on three sporting fronts - road cycling, mountainbiking and karting.

Over our history Cycling Southland has featured as a prominent part of the local and national media. Our historian and memorabilia guru Julian Ineson has found a wee gem about our fantastic club back in the 1963.

As part of the ongoing updating of the history associated with our sport we would like to update the records of various events.