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Megan “The Legend” and “The Ninja”

by Glenys Taylor | Jun 11, 2012 | Archive(News)

My Yeti ASR-5C (fondly named “The Ninja” for it’s stealth-like looks) and I have had one hell of an adventure these last couple of months. We started in South Africa with the 800km Cape Epic, then spent time in the Southern Alps in Italy, scaling huge climbs in search of the snow line and descending sweet lines back towards Lake Garda. After a brief rendezvous with Munich’s trails in Germany, we then spent a week together in Greece, enjoying the breathtaking vistas, superb weather and riding trails that could be best described as gnarly kilometer-long rock gardens. In fact, The Ninja and I have done 2180km of sweet riding together, and 47600m of climbing since I left New Zealand late in March. We have been through two drive trains, three sets of brake pads and three sets of tires in that time. The Ninja is my best friend. Together we have experienced great things, seen amazing sights and met wonderful people… So it seems so fitting that The Ninja would carry me on my final journey this trip before coming home to NZ… My first 24 Hour Solo World Champs podium.

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Mid Winter Break from Racing for Seniors.

by Glenys Taylor | Jun 7, 2012 | Archive(News)

We are having a mid-winter break from club racing, but things will get back to full-swing in July – the new race calendar is to be released soon.

The program for racing will be split into seasons, at the present point in time the school aged members are having a lot of racing as they build up to the North Island and National school champs.

And as the school racing scene draws to a close at the end of term 3, the recreational rides around the country kick off.

So to align with this the senior racers will be gearing up with some club racing starting in July that will build up to the events that are held around the country starting with the Feilding Festival of Cycling which this year is to be held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th September.

The Time Trial NZ Idea

by Glenys Taylor | Jun 7, 2012 | Archive(News)

There is a new concept in time trialling currently being trialled and tested around NZ. It is based on having a number of 15km TT courses that cyclist’s can ride whenever they choose and post their times on a website.

This would be be categorised by gender, age group categories with a tandem and 2-up rider option.

The benefits being, it provides a training and competitive option over winter as many clubs don’t run events and would be a non-threatening pathway to encourage people to get into cycling.

The idea has started to gain interest and support with a website set up http://timetrial.co.nz/

To date, two courses have been set up to trial this idea, one in Palmerston North and Otaki ,with more being added around the country in coming weeks.

One of the criteria for a course was that it didn’t use a regular cycling club TT course as this is concept is intended to compliment rather than compete with existing cycling club courses.

If anyone is interested in riding a course, check out the following links.

Palmerston North http://timetrial.co.nz/ride-cou/ride-time-trial-nz-course/palmerston-north/

Otaki – http://timetrial.co.nz/ride-cou/ride-time-trial-nz-course/te-horo/