by Glenys Taylor | Oct 12, 2013 | Archive(News)
After racing in and out of Japan over the last 6 months I can sum it all up with one word- Spectacular!
For my final racing session I was assigned to Nagoya City Keirin in southern Japan along with my ‘teammates’ Scott Sunderland and Shane Perkins from Australia.
Nagoya is a special place, not only because it houses some of this planets greatest companies such as Panasonic, more importantly it has a very old and historic velodrome with extremely long straights and steep corners that encourages very exciting and dangerous racing. Since it was our last race, our governing body JKA decided to treat us with a 4-day meet. This means we are locked away for a minimum of 112 hours with absolutely no contact to the outside world. I can tell you now I must of brushed my teeth at least 5 times a day and had about 100 cups of green tea because there really is nothing else to do. The upside is we get to race 4 times and potentially ‘take home’ more cash in a brown paper bag at the end of it all.
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by Glenys Taylor | Oct 10, 2013 | Archive(News)
On the 3rd of October 11 Bike Manawatu age grade members travelled to
Invercargill to compete in the 30th year of the YUNCA Junior 3 Day Tour.
The Yunca Tour is known as the most prestigious age grade tour in New Zealand with a large contingent of Australiaʼs top age grade riders making the trip over to compete.
Myself and Emily Shearman contested the Under 15 Girls grade, a small field of just 10 riders but made up of NZ and Australian National Champs. I (Libby) started with my favourite discipline, the Individual Time Trial and managed to finish 3rd after a poor start. Emily finished 5th. Emily then showed her fantastic sprint form to get 2nd to Australian sprint champ Jessie Saunders in the Kermese (points race).
After Day 1, Emily was 3rd in GC with me running 4th, only 1 second behind.
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by Glenys Taylor | Oct 7, 2013 | Archive(News)
Just a reminder that the STEVENSON MINING SOURCE TO SEA is but a few weeks away now.
Manawatu members that enter fill in on the entry form that they are from Bike Manawatu we will get $ 5.00 back for club funds.
They’ll collate the amounts and send the cheques out after the event.
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by Glenys Taylor | Oct 7, 2013 | Archive(News)
With the cycling season kicking into gear, one event you may want to think about riding at the end of the season is the BikeNZ Club Road Nationals.
This event is targeted towards club riders, giving them the opportunity to compete in age group categories in the individual Time Trial and/or Road Race.
The 2014 event will be held in Cambridge starting on 1 May 2014. If you are thinking of riding this event, you can register for updates at the following link
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by Glenys Taylor | Oct 5, 2013 | Archive(News)
A small but determined field of riders gathered in Ashhurst for the 2013 running of the Essex Cup.
As always the first mention will be to the people that helped on the day – THANKS to Lyn and Kevin Daly for marshalling at Highland Home corner, Kerry, John and Lyall for being tail wagon.
With a lot of riders away at Southland for the Yunca tour it was anybodies guess how the grades were going to work out and who would be first over the line. The weather over winter has been pretty kind and today was no exception. Only a very slight breeze from no particular direction.
With the handicapping skills of Steve Stannard the first small D grade bunch consisting of Tamara Ross and Thomas Stannard was set off. The arrangement on the line was that Thomas would wait for Tamara at the top of the hills and she would be able to pull him along on the flats. Unfortunately all good plans don’t unfold as first envisaged. When Tamara and Thomas hit the gravel section, which was a bit worse than normal due to a slip that had recently been cleared, Tamara punctured and that put her race plans in the bin completely. Luckily for Tamara, Kerry and John Walker along with passenger Lyall were the tail vehicle and were able to pick her up.
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