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- Written by Michael McKnight
The Feilding Festival of cycling which was held over the weekend saw the weather clear up just in time for the road events on the Sunday. The event saw close to 250 participants enter for the Sunday races. Lytton Street School once again provided great facilities, allowing for an enjoyable BBQ lunch and an eventful prize giving enjoyed by all involved. An event like this takes a lot of organization and the sponsorship and support from the volunteers makes an event like this possible. 
There was fast and furious racing in the longer distance events due to the quality of the riders from all over the North island participating.
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- Written by Glenys Taylor
If you, or your bike, are feeling a little rusty after that bout of winter hibernation, take a look at theBike Wise maintenance check guide. The guide provides tips and tricks to ensure your bike is road-ready and includes how to best inspect your brake system, cables, tyres and the correct amounts of lubrication.
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Can riders who would like to be selected and people willing to go as officials for the Elite & U19 Track Champs being held at Cambridge 29 Jan - 1 Feb 2015.
Also for the Age Group & Omnium Track Champs being held at Cambridge 11th - 15th March 2015, we would like to get some idea of numbers.
Please get in contact with Noeline Elden as soon as possible.
There is a selection process both for riders and officials.
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- Written by Kim Andersen
For all those keen to know how our WCNI cyclists fared at the first session of the Tier One event.
First up this morning we had Liam and Cody in Junior Mens sprint, Ruby and Michaela in Junior Women's scratch and Jordan in his first outing as an Elite rider.
Liam and Cody rode well in qualifying, with Liam qualifying third and so earning himself a spot in semi-finals and finals tonight. We understand he will be facing off against Lewis who has recently been to Korea..looking forward to the riding tonight.
Jordan qualified in the top 16 elite men, then was up against Eddie Dawkins! Eddie took the win but Jordan was happy with his ride and really enjoyed it.
Ruby rode an awesome scratch race to end up with the silver medal. With only 7 riders the pace was high from the start with the NZ girls being under instruction to make some attacks. With Michaela being one of these girls and following this instruction well!
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It had to come to an end – that is the run of fine weather that we have had for club races over the past long period of time. I think if I remember rightly the last time that it rained at a club race was in July last year at Ashhurst. And I really shouldn’t complain as I barely got wet. The was a light shower that went over while we were still at registration and everyone was able to huddle under the big tree at Halcombe school and keep out of the rain.
There were 2 courses on offer – a long and a short course and depending on which grade you were in depended on whether you did 1 or 2 laps of the long course or the short course. This was another week where the adult riders out numbered the under 19 riders dramatically. In fact there were only 4 under 19 riders.
A special thanks to Angela Rainham, Steph Dench, Lee Yates and Brendan Wildbore who were marshalls out on the course and also to Carol Roberts and Michael McKnight who looked after the start and finish.
It was great to see new riders coming along to the series, some that have raced before but not with Bike Manawatu and some that have never raced. And it is really admirable when you have a new person racing in B grade who gets a puncture on the 2nd lap, fixes it and carries on to the finish line in the right direction and didn’t take the short option back to Halcombe. Well done Kevin.
With the next race starting at Colyton there will be a 5 minute split between A and B grade to avoid the B graders splitting not far from the startline as they tried to keep up with the A graders. And some of the new riders will be put in to their correct grades now that we have seen their racing ability.