Alison Shanks World Champion again
10 April 2012
Alison Shanks World Champion once more! Melbourne - UCI Track World Championships It was a case of history repeating itself as New Zealander Alison Shanks dispatched her Great Britain rival, Wendy Houvenaghel, into second place to take the rainbow jersey in the Individual Pursuit just like...
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Test bikes on the demotour
3 April 2012
The demotour.com is here and we invite you to come along and test ride the latest and greatest bikes from Avanti. The demotour.com trailers are loaded with a selection of bikes prepped to hit both the tarmac and the trails alike - and the best news is, it's FREE. The trailers are packed...
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Avanti Drome
2 April 2012
Home of Cycling - the National Cycling Centre of Excellence Welcomes Naming Rights Partnership AVANTIDROME The Home of Cycling Charitable Trust is proud to announce a ten-year naming rights partnership with Sheppard Cycles, with the National Cycling Centre of Excellence velodrome to be called the...
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Chrono EvoII on TVNZ
2 April 2012
PistaEvo II and Ali Shanks featured on TVNZ news! The Pista Evo II is part of the Evo II project that birthed the infamous Chrono Evo II. The Pista Evo II was heavily featuerd on TV1 news the other night as part of a feature on Alison Shanks and her 2012 Olympic hopes. There's also a very...
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red-dot-award
26 March 2012
Avantiwins again! Hot on the heels of Avanti’s Project Evo2 racing bikes wining both the best in category (Gold pin) and supreme (Purple pin) awards in the product discipline at last month’s Best Design Awards in New Zealand the brand has won an internationally coveted red dot award...
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Kiwi bikers take on Cape Epic for charity
20 March 2012
KIWI MOUNTAIN BIKERS TAKE ON EPIC AFRICA CHALLENGE FOR CHARITY AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, MARCH 12, 2012 The race is an eight day extreme mountain bike race around the wilds of South Africa in April called the Cape Epic. The riders are two men who enjoy taking on challenges slightly beyond the normal...
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Pure Black Racing partners with BikeNZ
3 February 2012
PureBlack Racing partners with BikeNZ to help grow NZ cycling talent PureBlack Racing and Sheppard Cycles Ltd (Avanti) have partnered with BikeNZ to invest in young road cycling talent by creating a road development squad to race internationally. The agreement follows PureBlack Racing’s...
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Otago Rail Trail
25 January 2012
The Otago Rail Trail with Trail Journeys The Rail Trail Accessible throughout the year the Rail Trail follows the now defunct Central Otago branch railway line along its entire 150km length from Clyde through to Middlemarch. It was the Department of Conservation (DOC) and the Otago Rail Trail...
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General Store Person Jobs Australia
18 January 2012
Come join us! If you're eligible to work in Australia and are based in Melbourne we have a number of full time openings in our Brooklyn facility going currently. For all the details see our Careers page ...
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Bikeride iphone app
6 January 2012
Thosecycle-friendly people at Rabobank have made a cycling app we should all have. Using the GPS in your iPhone the app allows you to map, record and subsequently upload and share your rides. Genius. What's more the download is absolutely free. If you like riding then you'll like this....
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