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Lake Taupo Cycling Challenge
During our international conference in May of this year, a challenge was put forward by our New Zealand team. Not to back down from supporting a good cause or challenge from our team, along with continuation of the friendly Australian/New Zealand rivalry, TEAM RYCO was born! Jim Searle (our temporary Australian), Sean Babbage, Darrin Barr and Ian Morris, along with four RYCO New Zealand distributors, set out for the Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge on 27th November 2010.
The Lake Taupo Challenge is an annual event and one of New Zealand’s premier cycle challenges supporting New Zealand’s Life Long Heart Charity. The event is held around the glorious Lake Taupo and covers a total 160 kilometres for solo riders, which was the event in which TEAM RYCO competed.
Unfortunately due to injury Ian Morris was forced to withdraw prior to the event, however he did a fantastic job supporting the other novice riders. This was a great team event showcasing determination, team work and the camaraderie of our TEAM RYCO coming together to compete as one and support each other through an enduring challenge.
Well done to all…
A RYCO Mountain Bike Champion in New Zealand
Thirteen
year old Scott Barr, son of Darrin Barr - RYCO’s Regional Sales Manager for the South Island
of New Zealand, recently competed in the New Zealand Mountain Bike Cup
and the New Zealand Mountain Bike Championships riding in RYCO cycling gear. The NZ MTB championships were held in Dunedin on
the 26th and 27th February 2011. Conditions were wet,
muddy and cold (normal for Dunedin), however Scott had a good race. The pressure
was on for Scott to keep pushing hard and make no mistakes. He ended up
winning by 25 seconds.
Darrin would like to thank RYCO, Village Cycles, Translog & HSR for their support.
Wests Cycle Classic
Congratulations to the team from Centennial Coal, a RYCO customer in New South Wales, Australia, who competed in the West Cycle Classic event. RYCO were proud to support the team by providing them with their RYCO cycling gear. It is an annual eight day event held in March that aims to raise money for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service.
Alan Maurer, Logistics Coordinator at Centennial Coal, gave us a great outline of the team’s experience:
‘We made it. Eight days in the saddle and plenty of climbing on most of those days, hundreds of kilometres over beautiful parts of Australia I'd never seen before (in a cracker of a season - it's green everywhere), wonderful riding mates, great volunteers, great food, sensational family atmosphere in a group of 70 people; it really doesn't get a lot better… the pain of the hills and mountains all seems worth it when we look at the reason we're riding.’
Alan went on to thank RYCO for our support of the event.
RYCO Staff Participate in ‘Movember’ 2010
During November each year, gentlemen
across the globe grow moustaches during November to raise awareness and funds
for cancer affecting men.
A couple of RYCO Melbourne employees supported the cause by growing a ‘mo’ for ‘Movember’ in 2010, raising awareness for depression, prostate cancer and men’s health in general.
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