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I’m super excited to share that I’ve been selected to represent New Zealand as part of the RTX team at the 2026 Asia Pacific Junior Track Tournament in Hong Kong, from 18–20 December! This is a massive opportunity for me to race internationally and represent NZ, and I’m fundraising to help cover some of the costs of getting there. Choose a number between 1 and 50 and donate that amount. For example, number 1 = $1, number 25 = $25, and number 50 = $50. Every dollar helps and is greatly appreciated. Thanks to everyone who supports me and helps make this opportunity possible! Any Questions DM me

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This is a great opportunity to prove to yourself that you're really a decent climber.

Sign up for this awesome event created by Torque Events. [https://www.torqevents.net/register](https://www.torqevents.net/register)

5 hand-picked classic Nelson climbs including Moutere Hill and Aniseed Hill.

The first stage, Redwood Valley, must be completed between 2-8 November.

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Exciting stuff coming up!!
On the 1st of November it is our season opening day, Come down with a friend and have a try, everybody is welcome and we have bikes available to be borrowed for the day. We are very lucky to have a BBQ after racing from @churbolbbq , so a big thanks to them!! Can’t wait to see you all down there 😊

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Nationals / NTS Track 🇳🇿🚴‍♂️
To round off our two weeks down in the deep south, our riders took to the boards to compete at the National and South Island Track Championships, followed by NTS Round 2.
Our riders put in some outstanding performances across both events, bringing home some incredible results!
National / South Island Track Championships 🏆
🥇 George MacDonald (U13) – 1st Nationals, 1st South Island
🥇 Escher Laufkotter (U15) – 1st Nationals, 1st South Island
🥈 Amelie Laufkotter (U16) – 4th Nationals, 2nd South Island
🥇 Noah Eden (U16) – 1st Nationals, 1st South Island
🥉 Lucas Ippolito (U17) – 3rd Nationals, 2nd South Island
🥉 Noah Johnson (U20) – 6th Nationals, 3rd South Island
These are some incredible results from our young riders and a fantastic way to finish off an awesome couple of weeks of racing!
NTS Round 2 🔥
Four of our riders stayed down south to compete at NTS Round 2. This event isn’t all about results, but focuses on developing skills, learning from coaches and becoming the best track racers they can be.
Escher Laufkotter, Amelie Laufkotter, Noah Eden and Lucas Ippolito all had an amazing experience, with Lucas and Noah qualifying for A Grade, Escher making B Grade, and Amelie putting in a very impressive performance in her grade.
A huge thank you to everyone who helped make these events possible, and especially to @bikesbyfelix for supporting our riders and keeping their bikes running speedy! 🚴‍♂️💨
What an awesome way to wrap up two weeks of racing down south! 👏

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NTS Round 2

Super fun racing down south, taking away some great learnings and spending time with the boys.

Big thanks to @cyclingnewzealand for putting on another great event. Thanks to @bikesbyfelix and @gregfraine for the coaching and keeping the bike running mint. Also a massive thanks to Mum and Dad for all the support and for spending almost the whole holidays down in Invercargill with me.

Time for some rest, then a big summer block.

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Larping the boards
Secondary schools track nationals/south islands. First time ever on the indoor velodrome for me and first time in about 4 months since I was on a track bike. Fair to say I had a LOT of learning experience over the 3 days on the track.

Super stoked with some of my results considering I had only learned to ride on the indoor one day beforehand. My standing 250m start was abysmal but it was an excellent way to knock out the nerves before my scratch race and my first ever ride on the track with more than 2 people. The scratch race was pretty awesome, I decided to test my luck and breakaway solo from around 10 laps to go, this went surprisingly well and I managed to put over half a lap into the field. In the end 2 riders caught me and I settled for a 3rd. Happy to also land a 3rd overall in the South Island for u19 men.

This was an awesome event and a real eye opener, I may be considering a grand lock in for track racing. Big thanks to everyone who helped and supported me, Dad for yelling at me to go faster. Big thanks to Felix and Stu for getting my bike on the right gearing and making sure it won't snap in half. Big thanks to DSP, Track Cycling Nelson and Jason for lending me equipment. Big thanks to CLM Richmond for their support, allowing me to use their awesome facilities which helped me muster a bit more power on the fixie. Cheers to Kinetrix Performance Gels for their amazing supplements.

Looking forward to the next couple of months with some gravel racing coming up and getting school over with.

"Go hard and turn left"

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🚨Reminder🚨
Our first Nelson Schools Criterium Cycling Series is on this Friday, 16th October!!! This series is being held at the velodrome, and is available to all children from Under 5s to 18yo/College aged students. Make sure to register now on the track cycling Nelson website.

https://events.humanitix.com/term-4-nelson-school-criterium-cycling-series

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Nationals / South Island Track Champs 2026

What an event! My legs were definitely feeling it after a few tough days at Yunca, but I’m extremely happy to finally say that I’m a National Champion.

1st – Nationals
1st – South Island Champs

None of this would have been possible without the people behind the scenes who have helped me get here.

A huge thanks to my coach @gregfraine for helping me improve so much, @stumac21 for helping me with my tactics throughout the week, and @ja.craig72 for all the work behind the scenes with bike setup and all the little things that make a difference.

Thanks to @bikesbyfelix for keeping my bike running smoothly and helping make changes to get every bit of speed out of it.

And last but definitely not least, my parents. Thank you for believing in me since day one and always supporting me in this sport. I couldn’t do it without you all.

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Our team had an amazing time down south at the 2026 @yuncajuniortourofsouthland

The 6 stage 3 day tour gave our riders some brilliant learning experiences and some excellent results. Day one of the tour was a typical Southland day, with lots of wind and rain. Day two tested our riders endurance with longer and harder stages. And finally day three was wrapped up with an exciting criterium, testing our riders bike handling skills.

As well as learning heaps our riders also got some amazing results:

George MacDonald U13
Our youngest rider getting 2nd on GC on his first tour

Escher Laufkotter U15
4th on GC

Noah Eden U17
20th on GC against some tough Australian competition

Lucas Ippolito U17
15th on GC

Amelie Laufkotter U17
26th on GC also against some tough Australian riders

Noah Johnson U20
7th GC

Great work from the team as this was the first time doing YUNCA for some of the riders. Thank you so much to our teams main sponsors: Bikes By Felix, Cube NZ and Uvex. Of course this trip would not have been possible without the parents, supporters, mechanic and coach who got our riders and equipment down to Invercargill and running smoothly.

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Enter the mind of @lucasmippolito winning the Standing 250m with a amazing time of 19.65 seconds! Lucas got the fastest time overall at the 2026 schools track nationals as an u17! Should Lucas become a sprinter?

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Yunca Junior Tour of Southland 2026

Day 1 at the Teratonga circuit was great, laying down a solid TT landing me in 6th on GC. Later on in stage 2 during the Kermesse I managed to breakaway with 2 other riders with over 20km to go resulting in our breakaway putting 54 seconds into the rest of the peleton landing me in 2nd on GC and 3rd for stage 2. A hard day in the breakaway with an average power of 350w for 40min+ as well as a 20min power of just shy of 400w.

Day 2 was a hard day for me physically and mentally with two 70km+ stages. Stage 3 I managed to get another 3rd in a bunch sprint. Stage 4 was challenging with fatigue beginning to catch up, I managed to hold it together and finish in the bunch with a top 10.

Day 3 was a fun one starting off with a long 86km stage in the morning which was thankfully flat which led to an early break and lots of chasing for the group. I sat in and finished top 10 in a sprint finish with a failed attempt to lead Boston out for a sprint finish. To conclude the tour stage 6 was a fast criterium which I attacked from the gun and was away for an entire lap! Eventually got caught and rolled with the bunch until a long sprint finish where I got a mighty lead out from Jack.

Overall a great tour and I am super stoked with how I went with a 7th place on the general classification and being in top ten for all the other stages and classifications.

This race would not have been possible without my amazing sponsors which helped me and supported me with training, supplements and equipment. Big shout out to Dad for taking me down and putting up with my shit. Thank you so much to Bikes by Felix and the Nelson crew for your support with bike repairs, equipment checks and backing me up when things went south. A massive thanks to my coach Stuart for having me best preparing for the racing and backing me up.

Thanks heaps to CLM Richmond for allowing me to use the gym and pool for strength and recovery training. A massive thanks to Kinetrix Performance Gels for their awesome fuel, these gels saved me on those big days.

"It's pasta time"

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Yunca Junior Tour 2026 🇳🇿

My new favourite road race. Had the best time racing down south over the last 3 days, learning heaps, racing hard and making some new friends.

Typical Southland weather, but that’s racing 😂 Huge thanks to the @auscyclingteam development team for sending their top riders and making the tour even harder.

Finished 20th (+43 sec), which I’m pretty happy with, but definitely would’ve liked a bit more.

Massive thanks to @bikesbyfelix and my family for getting me sorted and helping me make it down to this event.

Track 🔜

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