by Glenys Taylor | Aug 26, 2011 | Archive(News)
On the day he was named in the long list squad for the upcoming world championships, Jesse Sergent claimed another stage win on the Pro Tour in France today.
Sergent, riding for his Radioshack team, was fastest in the 20km time trial on stage four at the Tour de Poitou-Charentes.
The kiwi was 18 seconds ahead of teammate Michal Kwiatkowski with fellow kiwi Sam Bewley sixth.
The win pushes Sergent into the tour lead with an 18 seconds advantage over Kwiatkowski with Peraud at 36s.
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by Matthijs van Wagtendonk | Aug 15, 2011 | Archive(News)
Jesse Sergent pulled off a thrilling win in the individual time trial at the Eneco Tour. The 23-year-old made best use of the early, dry conditions to post a competitive time on the technically demanding 14.7km course, finishing 14 seconds ahead of Alex Rasmussen (HTC-Highroad).
“I did not expect this at all,” said Sergent. “After my 7th place in the opening prologue, my confidence was up and I was hoping for a top 5 today. But my back luck of yesterday became my good luck today. I only had 2 kilometers on wet roads.” For the full article click cyclingnews.com
by Glenys Taylor | Aug 14, 2011 | Archive(News)
Below is the link to the points for the interclub races held so far.
After 3 events Wanganui is in the lead over Manawatu by 65 points which means that we need a concerted effort by all members to turn up and race this coming Saturday if we want to win the Interclub Trophy.
If we had the same people turn up and race in Halcombe as those that raced at Ashhurst for the Saddle Rd event and we had the same race placings we would win by 34 points.
So as a team lets see if we can achieve this goal and get our first bit of silverware in the trophy cabinet.
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by Glenys Taylor | Aug 12, 2011 | Archive(News)
Guess how many Km,s Colin Anderson will complete at the 24 hour LeMans
France Cycle race -20/21st August.
14 great prizes of Vouchers for Meals,Pedal Pushers,RightCut-
all prizes would suit male/female young/old.
Simply drop into Pedal Pushers OR later next week to Speights Ale House,
Gold coin per estimate. All funds raised to Manawatu Canteen
by Glenys Taylor | Aug 9, 2011 | Archive(News)
If you were to undertake a SWOT (strength, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis of Bike Manawatu, surely passion and a willingness to get involved would definitely be classified as strengths after 15 people turned up to the inaugural Coaching Working Group meeting held on 8 Aug.
Coordinated by Steve Stannard and Mike McRedmond, the attendees shared their aspirations and ideas regarding coaching within Bike Manawatu. “I’m heartened by what I heard this evening and in my assessment we have lots of enthusiastic people wanting to make a difference”, said Bike Manawatu Chairperson Paul van Velthooven.
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by Matthijs van Wagtendonk | Jul 13, 2011 | Archive(News)
Simon Van Velthooven is crowned King of Speed at The Valley Preferred Cycling Center
Van Velthooven, clad in a stealth black helmet, kit and bike, announced his return to TTown in glorious fashion by taking the 2K Scratch and Keirin win to be crowned Fastest Man on Saturday night.
For the whole story go to valley preferred cycle centre
