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- Written by Matthijs van Wagtendonk
First round of the 2011 Wednesday night tt summer series saw a good turnout. The good weather conditions made it perfect to set a good time to beat in the rounds to come. A reminder to all the number you got will be your number for the whole series. If you loose your number make something your self at a peace of paper or so you also can just tell the start and finish your number! If we do not get your number we can not work out your time. Great to see so much support out there that makes running the event a breeze.
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- Written by Barry Gillialand
Last year I rode a 40km time trial at Kahutara and participants said it was the windiest day they had ever experienced. On Sunday I rode a time trial on the same course and regular riders said it was the windiest day they had ever experienced, including last year! If last year was a record, this the crosswind this year broke it!
I usually take pride in the fact that I can ride the aerobars in cross winds when others don’t. Not on Sunday! The wind was so strong in some places that it caused the shallow Zipp 303 to skip across the road toward the gutter. It was a matter of sitting up and leaning as much weight on the front wheel as much as possible on exposed parts of the course.
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- Written by Mark Waterland
The Findlay brothers rode strongly in the Ramblers The Hub Tour in the Hawkes Bay at the weekend but it was the younger Findlay siblings, Mark and Angus, and not former U23 National Road Champion Tom, featuring in the results.
In the highly competitive U17 Boys Grade Mark placed second in the opening prologue (6 km Individual Time Trial) and 1st in Stage 1 (Road Race) and 1st in the Stage 2 Criterium and completed the tour in 3rd place in the General Classification. Older brother Angus was competing in his first competitive event, having only decided to take up cycling in the last 6 months.
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- Written by Stephen Challies
30 riders battled a strong head wind for sprint points in the second of the four race Summer Crit Series.
All grades saw feircly contested sprints and the bunches generally stayed intact throughout the races.
The points from last week will be added to todays totals and carried forward for the final two races.
The 3rd race will be on Saturday 29 January at Linton Camp.
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- Written by Stephen Challies
A brisk wind on the back section of the 3.3km course may have slowed the races down a slight bit but the sprints on every second lap of the A/B grade race were at a very fast pace. Unfortunately, Tom Pirie had a mechanical on the first lap and although he made up some ground with some help from James Hutton and Rob Te Moana, over the next few laps, he was not able to catch the lead until the last lap.