Gidday team. Another big week at home and abroad with a fantastic club race at Waianawa, more great results internationally, the culmination of our Lone Star/Speights Corporate Roller Racing Challenge and the end of broken night’s sleep with the finish of the Tour de France. Any idea how we could light up the water tower at the end of our Tour like the Arc de Triomphe?
BikeNZ's Junior Worlds endurance riders showed their form over the weekend with a brilliant trifecta to dominate the podium and scoop the first three places in the Dentergem Kermesse in Belgium.
The final heat of the Lone Star - Speights Roller Racing has seen the leaders board have a serious shake up with three new teams placing themselves at the top of the table. The large supportive crowd were treated to a highly competitive night of racing from beginning to end.
Waianawa played host to a full day of club road racing on Saturday with a morning time trial followed by an afternoon teams road race. Check out the day's action here.
Junior Racing kicked off in this ‘new’ season with a flourish, with the young guns putting on a show of outstanding skill, speed, and tactics, topped off by a Madison for those who had taken part in the Madison Training through June and July.
What an awesome night of roller racing – it has got better and bigger as the weeks have gone on as the final teams lined up at the final heat 4 of the Lone Star-Speights Roller Racing last night.
At just 20 years, Stephanie McKenzie has a big goal – and it’s been a long-term one for many years. That is to be selected to ride for New Zealand at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and then the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Here is a sentence you hear very often: We are very lucky to live in Southland during the winter. This statement can however, be backed up by a number of facts.
Another “Power Hour” is under the belt for the track racers of the south, with some great performances, particularly from the continually improving Madison riders.
The Comedy for Cure Kids Road Show will leave Invercargill next month to cover the length of the country and the show producer is wondering if any of our Cycling Southland road cycling enthusiasts would like to join them on the first leg of their journey?
What a week of awesome news we’ve had from the International stage of Tier 1 sprinting at Adelaide, Tarsh and Sequoia doing their bit carving it up in T-Town, to Glasgow Junior Worlds departures and some top results and fierce racing – in some torrid conditions – for the Secondary School road champs in Christchurch during the weekend – totally awesome work to everyone
This week we were paid a visit by a couple of good blokes from up north somewhere who wanted to get a handle on how one of these velodrome things worked. They were looking at the feasibility of building a similar community facility for their home patch.
A clear and sunny (but very chilly!) day greeted riders at Woodlands, for the 2nd race of the winter season and the 1st of the 2013 Winter Points Series races.
Cycling Southland's Eddie Dawkins and team mate Simon van Velthooven scored wins on day three of the international track cycling series in Adelaide last night.
Invercargill's Matt Archibald was the best of the Kiwis at the International Track Cycling Series last night making the sprint quarter and semi finals at the Adelaide Super-Drome.