by Glenys Taylor | Jan 30, 2012 | Event Reports
2 lap Handicap race
A Grade
1. Joel Yates
2. Chris Denholm
3. Jack Finlay
4. Cameron Huston
5. Joel Walton
6. Cameron Worboys
B Grade
1. Jacob Sievwright
2. Sam Burne
3. Flyn Yates
4. Jayden Bond
5. Liam Ryan
6. Fergus Bryan
C Grade
1. Jeorgie Cox 67
2. Levi Bryan 66
3. Anna Stewart 68
4 lap Handicap race
A Grade
1. Joel Yates
2. Jack Finlay
3. Chris Denholm
4. Cameron Huston
5. Joel Walton
6. Cameron Worboys
B Grade
1. Sam Burne
2. Liam Ryan
3. Fergus Bryan
4. Jacob Sievwright
2 Lap Handicap race C grade
1. Anna Stewart
2. Jeorgie Cox
3. Levi Bryan
1200m Pursuit Race
A Grade
Team 1: Cameron Huston, Cameron Worboys, Chris Denholm
Beat
Team 2: Jack Finlay, Joel Yates, Joel Walton
B Grade
Team 3: Jayden Bond, Jacob Sievwright, Liam Ryan
Beat
Team 4: Fergus Bryan, Flyn Yates, Sam Burne
C Grade
Team 5: Anna Stewart
Beat
Team 6 Jeorgie Cox, Levi Bryan
Standing 200m Time Trial
A Grade
1. Chris Denholm 15.72
2. Joel Yates 15.74
3. Jack Finlay 16.28
4. Joel Walton 16.52
5. Cameron Huston 17.03
6. Cameron Worboys 17.09
B grade
1. Jacob Sievwright 17.40
2. Sam Burne 18.16
3. Fergus Bryan 18.20
4. Jayden Bond 18.26
5. Flyn Yates 18.89
6. Liam Ryan 18.90
C Grade
1. Anna Stewart 20.40
Riders of the Night
Joel Yates and Jacob Sievwright
by Glenys Taylor | Jan 27, 2012 | Event Reports
A clear blue Summers sky with a light westerly breeze welcomed the 28 riders on Tuesday night. A good turnout from our younger riders as they fine tune their skills for the West Coast Track Cycling Championships to be held this coming weekend. The nights programme was designed to further develop race craft in the scratch races, develop intestinal fortitude in the handicap races and develop their ability to adapt to something new by introducing a number to Keirin racing behind the motorbike.
The night also saw Jaycob Humphreys break the 2000m under 19 pursuit record set previously by Jesse Sergent 7 years ago. New Zealand and Wanganui age group representative Cassie Cameron made the trip from Wanganui seeking some meaningful competition and found it with tight finishes, challenging handicaps and good sized race fields. The improvement in riders week on week is clear to see and a good representation of the Clubs strength in track cycling should be on display at the Centre Championships with a number of good results expected.
As the quality of the riders climbs so does the quality of the racing. The race of the night could have been awarded to any one of three races, these races showed individuals tenacity to push past comfort zones, to bear gritted teeth and to dig as deep as they dear to produce their very best effort. The final race of the night had a finish measured in tyre widths, 1 lap plus head start handicaps awarded in a 12 lap race and a scratch bunch that all but made it through the field. As Tegan Roffe rolled around to take her limit mark 500m ahead of a scratch bunch of Mark Finlay and Jaycob Humphreys a group of three riders including Cameron Gibbons and Brent Zimmerman settled at turn three 300m from the scratch riders. Tegan began the race as the leader at settled into a steady rhythm which she was able to maintain, this allowed her to stay clear for 10 of the 12 laps. While Tegan had the spectators in a trance as they watched her tick off the laps as the scratch riders ticked past the riders in front of them to close the gap Cameron and Brent worked well together to maintain a gap of safety back to the scratch riders. The scratch riders passed Tegan with two laps to go only to notice that Brent had moved to the outside of the track after dragging Cameron through at pace over the last few laps and had left Cameron alone 200m ahead. Mark set off both turbo boosters as he exploded to bridge the gap and take the race, Jaycob grabbed the wheel for a wild ride around the track as they both stepped upto another level. It became obvious to all that a new contest had just begun and Cameron was in sprint mode as he was not giving this opportunity for victory away.
At the second last turn Cameron had reached empty and was visibly slowing down as he went through the motions to the finish line, meanwhile the chasing scratch riders were closing in fast like a defending fleet footed winger corner flagging to tackle a runaway prop. As the scratch riders entered the home straight it was left to Mark to make the final bid for the line, the crowed were roaring at Cameron as it looked as if he thought he had it won when the crowd could see clearly that was not the case. At the line Cameron just held on by the thinnest of margins to win a most entertaining race.
Results for Tuesday the 24th of January
Under 15 Girls 2 lap scratch race
1st Emily Shearman
2nd Libby Arbuckle
Under 15 Boys 2 lap scratch race
1st Cody Simpson
2nd Carne Groube
3rd Michaela Drummond
4th Chris Denholm
Under 17 Girls 3 lap scratch race
1st Kate Stewart
2nd Ruby Perry
Under 17 Boys 3 lap scratch race
1st Josh Kendall
2nd Jordan Castle
3rd Liam Barber
4th James Denholm
Womens 3 lap scratch race
1st Cassie Cameron
2nd Sharon Hollenstein
3rd Tegan Roffe
4th Kelsi Eccles
Mens 3 lap scratch race
1st Cameron Gibbons
2nd Luuk van Wantendonk
Masters Men 3 lap scratch race
1st Brent Zimmerman
2nd Shaun Matena
3rd Marcel Hollenstein
4th Peter Wenborn
2000m Under 19 pursuit
Jaycob Humphreys broke record with 2.34.11 old record 2.35.54
Keirin heat 1
1st Cody Simpson
2nd Robert Stannard
3rd Chris Denholm
4th Michaela Drummond
Keirin heat 2
1st Jordan Castle
2nd Josh Kendall
3rd Kate Stewart
4th James Denholm
Keirin heat 3
1st Emily Shearman
2nd Libby Arbuckle
3rd Thomas Stannard
Keirin heat 4
1st Kelsi Eccles
2nd Sharon Hollenstein
3rd Ruby Perry
4th Tegan Roffe
Keirin heat 5
1st Cassie Cameron
2nd Shaun Matena
3rd Brent Zimmerman
4th Marcel Hollenstein
Keirin heat 6
1st Mark Finlay
2nd Jaycob Humphreys
3rd Luuk van Wantendonk
4th Cameron Gibbons
Under 15 3 lap handicap
1st Robert Stannard
2nd Chris Denholm
3rd Thomas Stannard
4th Emily Shearman
Under 17 3 lap handicap
1st Jordan Castle
2nd Josh Kendall
3rd Kate Stewart
4th Ruby Perry
Womens 6 lap points race
1st Kelsi Eccles 7 points
2nd Sharon Hollenstein 7 points
3rd Tegan Roffe 6 points
B Grade 7 lap points race
1st Brent Zimmerman 10 points
2nd Marcel Hollenstein 5 points
3rd Cameron Gibbons 5 points
A Grade 7 lap points race
1st Mark Finlay 10 points
2nd Jaycob Humphreys 6 points
3rd Cassie Cameron 4 points
4th Luuk van Wantendonk 2 points
Under 15 7 lap handicap
1st Robert Stannard
2nd Chris Denholm
3rd Emily Shearman
4th Libby Arbuckle
Under 17 8 lap handicap
1st Jordan Castle
2nd Josh Kendall
3rd Kate Stewart
4th James Denholm
All in 12 lap handicap
1st Cameron Gibbons
2nd Mark Finlay
3rd Jaycob Humphreys
4th Luuk van Wantendonk
by Vaughan Hunt | Jan 19, 2012 | Event Reports
Once again the Hawkes Bay Ramblers Cycling Club held another very successful HUB tour in Hastings on 13-15 January 2012.
The Hawkes Bay weather turned on a beautiful hot weekend but the winds were a test of courage and commitment to most as the prologue started on Friday night with very strong north westerly gusts.
There were many riders winning top ten positions in the 6km prologue (or time trial), but with the win of over 40 seconds to Kate Stewart in the U17 girls race was the most impressive win of the night. Coming in close behind was Ruby Perry finishing 3rd in the U17 girls prologue. George Roberts also finished exceptionally well in the prologue coming 7th in the U17 boys grade, with Matiu Kaihau finished 13th in his first A-Grade prologue. Kelsi Eccles was in great form over the weekend winning two stages of the B-Grade Women’s races earning the huge privilege of wearing the yellow jersey.
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by Glenys Taylor | Jan 16, 2012 | Event Reports
Tuesday nights racing fell victim to the wet summer and racing was called off so the Thursday was used as reserve day. An email was sent to the club on Wednesday morning asking for the Thursday night option to be advertised on the clubs website but as most sane people are on holiday at this time of the year, the request was not able to be actioned. Fortunately a wise group of eleven remembered the reserve day option and arrived for racing at the normal 5.45pm. While the numbers may have been down the talent clearly wasn’t as a number of records were either set or broken on the mild calm and overcast night.
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by Glenys Taylor | Dec 30, 2011 | Event Reports
Track racing up to Christmas has been a great success and here’s hoping for an even better half to the end of March 2012. Club Championships are to come and West Coast North Island Championships at Wanganui on 28th and 29th of January.
Highlights of the season so far:
· A record number of bikes hired out (37)
· A record number of 50 riders made it onto the track for a Club night in November.
· Four Club records broken and one established.
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