Thursday 11 November 2010

GP Oakley Jawbones

GP Oakley

The boys will be looking sharp this summer. Very soon they'll be sporting a new summer clothing range from Champion Systems and custom Oakley Jawbones.

The new clothing range will debut at the Armstrong Festival of Cycling on December 4.

Sunday 7 November 2010

Joe cleans up KOM at Tour of Southland

Joe Cooper KOM

Great to see JC win the King of the Mountains classification at the Tour of Southland yesterday. A dominant performance by Joe, scoring twice as many points as his nearest rival, George Bennett (52 vs 26) who finished second in the final KOM standings.

Joe steadily built an unassailable lead by initiating or joining the main breaks of the race. If there had been a title for most aggressive rider, Joe would of ranked highly as he spent many kilometers at the front of the race in his quest to secure the jersey.

HTC professional Hayden Roulston narrowly took the overall title by two seconds from former Wellington bike courier Jack Bauer. See cyclingnews.com for detailed results.

Wednesday 3 November 2010

JC wins stage at Tour of Southland!

Joe gives it everything

Brilliant display of power riding by Joe to win stage three and take the King of the Mountains classification jersey at the Tour of Southland yesterday. Joe was very active during the early part of the stage in a break with Subway Avanti team mate James Williamson. Joe dropped back to the main peloton and took the Otama hill climb, bided his time and then attacked off the front with Bevan Mason near the end of the stage. Coming out of the last corner Joe accelerated away from Mason and took his first ever Tour of Southland stage win.

Joe crashed heavily on day one of the tour during the Bluff Hill stage. His GC hopes disappeared, but he is now very motivated to secure the KOM jersey during the six day tour.

See the official Tour of Southland website for the latest results as they come to hand.

Joe on the attack
The decisive attack.

JC takes the win
Joe wins stage three comfortably from Bevan Mason.