Thursday 20 October is the deadline for anyone wishing to register their interest in being considered for the 2012 Oceania Track Cycling Champs being held at the ILT Velodrome from Monday 21 November to Thursday 24 November 2011.
This weekend features Cycling Southland’s 2011 edition of the Yunca Junior Tour of Southland. Over recent years this event has developed into one of the premier junior tours in Australasia and this year more than 180 riders including 40 from across the Tasman take on the highways of the south.
He is one of New Zealand's best chances for a medal at the the Olympics, but track cyclist Shane Archbold is taking nothing for granted less than a year out from London. A silver medallist in the omnium at this year's world championships, the 22-year-old from Timaru has based himself in Invercargill this week to put in extra time at the ILT Velodrome before BikeNZ's next official camp starts there on October 13.
The sixth and final round of the Cycling Southland junior division road race series proved to be a great hit out ahead of the upcoming Yunca Junior Tour of Southland on Saturday.
Racing on Friday at the ILT Velodrome kicked off with the Juniors at 6.30pm, who put on one of the most inspiring, exciting nights of racing so far this season to get us all into the racing spirit!
Cycling Southland's junior cyclists face a busy few days on both road and track with the latest chapter in the Baxter & Neilson Track Racing Series to be held tonight, followed by Saturday’s sixth and final Points Series road race at Te Tipua.
Share the Road will be without world championship representative Jack Bauer this year but still holds lofty ambitions for this year's PowerNet Tour of Southland.
The banning of race radios on this year's Tour of Southland would create a level playing field without compromising safety, race director Bruce Ross said yesterday.
Cycling Southland’s silly season is about to hit. Our club will deliver four major national and international events in the space of just six short weeks, starting with the Yunca Junior Tour of Southland.
In a sharp contrast to the previous week’s road racing conditions, the weather gods turned down the heat and cranked up the rain and wind for Cycling Southland’s MLT-sponsored Cruickshank Memorial handicap road race on Saturday.
Cycling Southland's Sophie Williamson earned a top 20 finish in her first appearance at the World Juniors Road Championships in Copenhagen tonight, finishing the 70 kilometre journey in 18th place while older brother James was unlucky to get caught behind a crash in the final stages of the U23 Men's race.
Friday night is going to be a dramatic one for one particular Cycling Southland family as James and sister Sophie Williamson both line up at the start-line, representing their country at the World Road Championships in Copenhagen.
The showers forecast for Saturdays racing never eventuated and conditions were quite pleasant in behind the hedge where Lynette Mattingly was registering the riders.
Share the Road will be without world championship representative Jack Bauer this year but still holds lofty ambitions for this year's PowerNet Tour of Southland.
The banning of race radios on this year's Tour of Southland would create a level playing field without compromising safety, race director Bruce Ross said yesterday.
In a sharp contrast to the previous week’s road racing conditions, the weather gods turned down the heat and cranked up the rain and wind for Cycling Southland’s MLT-sponsored Cruickshank Memorial handicap road race on Saturday.
Friday night is going to be a dramatic one for one particular Cycling Southland family as James and sister Sophie Williamson both line up at the start-line, representing their country at the World Road Championships in Copenhagen.