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Guess how many Km,s Colin Anderson will complete at the 24 hour LeMans
France Cycle race -20/21st August.
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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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This year it was 18 year old rugby player, Mikka, who came out of nowhere to blitz everyone in the Marist Sports Club Spin Bike annual challenge, held on Saturday Night in the Marist clubrooms. He managed to secure the quickest speed on the night of 96.9km/hr in a burst of speed more akin to the likes of Mark Cavendish in a Tour de France stage sprint. Although there was some debate about the accuracy of the speedo from the closet UCI commissaires amongst the Bike Manawatu supporters, it was the same setting for all riders claimed the event organiser, Matthijs van Wagtendonk. In one feat of physical toughness another rugby contestant, Leyton, chose to remove his shoes and the only thing covering his feet were his socks. Now those who ride will know just how uncomfortable that can be, but surprisingly he managed to reach just over 83km/hr, which was one of the better times on the night.
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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
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After 2 stages of the Canberra tour there are some exciting results coming through.
In the under 17 girls our very own Kate Stewart on general classification is in 15th place +4:17 on the leader.
Stage one was an individual time trial and Kate was placed 21st in that 1 min 39 behind the winner of the stage. In the second stage Kate was 14th over the line.
In the under 17 boys we have Mark Findlay representing us. He was placed 17th in the time trial and went on to win the second stage. Looking at the GC he stands at 7th after 2 stages with +:54 . In the stage 2 race there were 20 other boys that all finished with the same time as Mark so it will be a real tussle in the 3rd stage.