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| Scorchio |
Posted on 26-09-2017 16:40
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A number of good signings, and the return of loan riders looks to have beefed up the rider resources at Garmin BikeNZ. Team management look to have identified a challenging calendar for the upcoming season. A number of tough C1 races signed up for, and also a few clashes that will be difficult to manage (in particular Andora-Monterrey, Tours of America vs. Britain, and finally sprint stages races in Australia and Poland at the end of the season).
Additionally, the sponsor goals have been made more difficult with the arrival of a glut of riders to the CT focussed on similar objectives. I believe that these factors are going to make life more difficult than necessary for the Garmin squad, and hence will potentially limit point-scoring. The team is likely to have a fun time though with lots of great races to challenge the riders. Good luck for the season. 
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 26-09-2017 23:38
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Scorchio wrote:
A number of good signings, and the return of loan riders looks to have beefed up the rider resources at Garmin BikeNZ. Team management look to have identified a challenging calendar for the upcoming season. A number of tough C1 races signed up for, and also a few clashes that will be difficult to manage (in particular Andora-Monterrey, Tours of America vs. Britain, and finally sprint stages races in Australia and Poland at the end of the season).
Additionally, the sponsor goals have been made more difficult with the arrival of a glut of riders to the CT focussed on similar objectives. I believe that these factors are going to make life more difficult than necessary for the Garmin squad, and hence will potentially limit point-scoring. The team is likely to have a fun time though with lots of great races to challenge the riders. Good luck for the season.
Yeh we are definitely up for a very tough season! We still have put a lot of faith in our sprint squad in Von Hoff and Giacoppo with races like the Great Ocean Road Race. We also are put a lot of trust in Roe and Campero with a lot of big stage race goals. We feel as though the team will be able to stand up to these challenging goals and have a great season! We are looking for a top 10 in the CT standings which I think will be the toughest goal of all. Points have never been easy to come by for us but hopefully with Roe coming back Maxed and Campero joining the team as our main climber/stage racer, we hope that they, along with Von Hoff, can lead the team to glory!
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 02-11-2017 00:08
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As we head into the first races of the season, nerves are high! Riders want to get the season started and show that we are not a team at the back of the pack! First up, the Clasico San Cristobal!!
The opening race of the season is a one day hill classic! 187.6km in length with hills the entire way, this is not a race to take lightly. Leading the team today is Tarik Chaoufi. a good hill stat in 75. However, he lacks the backup stats like acceleration which is only 58. He will be helped by Crncevic, Daspuntsag, Gough, Kamzong, O'Connor, Petrus and Schultz.
The very first stage race of the MGUCI calendar! Lots of big riders here this year with the likes of Chris Froome, Di Maggio and Flügel predicted to lead the charge in this years edition. This year we decided to send all our local boys plus a kiwi and 1 Mongolian. Leading the team this year is Steele Von Hoff and Timothy Roe. Von Hoff is still searching for his first win and could possibly get that this season. Tim has recently joined us again after a year on loan and Jayco-Cobra9. Supporting these riders are Daspuntsag, Giacoppo, Gough, O'Connor, Schultz and Witmitz.
We will show reports of these races over the coming days!
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 29-03-2018 03:35
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"We send our deepest apologies to all the fans and followers of the team. We know this is unacceptable to disappear like we have since the first race of the season! We have been around but have failed to show that in the HQ of Garmin - BikeNZ Cycling. We apologise and would like to assure everyone that as a team, if we are allowed to continue, we will be here next year!"
This statement was issued coming off a strong result in the Tour of America with a stage win from Steele Von Hoff and a fantastic 9th overall from Piter Campero! Some great results as we grow ever closer to the end of the season! We hope that we still have your support and from now on we will be keeping you updated! Starting with the Tour of Japan in the next post which is off to a bang already!!
Continue to follow the thread for updates on the upcoming off season and whether or not we will be around next season!
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| Vien |
Posted on 29-03-2018 08:50
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 29-03-2018 09:48
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At one point this season it seemed Xero had won Survivor: NZ and "Africa" but we were foiled on both sides  Seriously though, love to see you guys returning, congrats on the succesful C1 trip 
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 29-03-2018 10:38
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Thanks guys!!
And Jandal you will never get rid of me I will always be around
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 29-03-2018 10:51
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The race in Japan started off with a short prologue! Flens was our best finished coming in 20th 8 seconds behind. The winner was Rohan Dennis with a very fast time!!
Stage 2 will be an exciting flat stage!
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 29-03-2018 13:53
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Jakstar22 wrote:
And Jandal you will never get rid of me I will always be around
No getting rid of me either we won't have Africa that easily!
Good to see you will be continuing as well Jak
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 01-04-2018 11:25
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The rest of the race was really just full of breakaway attempts for us. Stage 2, 3 and 5 saw young Ben O'Connor and Clovis Kamzong get into the breakaways these days.
In stage 2 the breakaway couldn't stay away and it turned into a bunch sprint where Anthony Giacoppo managed to get into the top 10 and take 8th place which is a great result against this sprint field!
Stage 3 it was O'Connor again in the breakaway. However, that was as much as the team featured on the day.
Stage 5 Kamzong was in the breakaway and managed to stay at the front of the race the whole way to the end of the race. Getting caught by the favourites in the last few kilometres of the race. Kamzong stayed fairly close to the front group at the end of the race but didn't feature in the final sprint.
And the final stage saw no breakaway but Giacoppo again managed to sprint to a top 10 once again!!
Kamzong was our best placed GC rider coming in 34th place over 11 minutes behind GC winner Stefan Denifl.
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 06-04-2018 05:24
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For us this race is not even worth mentioning. We were not in the breakaway, we were not in the front group and honestly was the biggest disappointment of the season. Our best finisher was Tim Roe 2'54" behind in 91st position.
EBH destroys the field and takes the win. Great result for Grieg - Eftel
We can achieve a great result here! Campero is our leader and with the support of Time Roe and Kamzong he has a great team that can really give him the edge over other teams! The start list is strong but Campero is one of the top favourites!!
As you can see there is only one main climb at the end of the race! We are really looking forward to this one!!!
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 15-04-2018 23:34
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O'Connor managed to get into the breakaway of 5 riders including Vila, Schleck, Per and Semple.
Campero was having a great day! With not long to go he was in one of the leading groups not far behind the leaders
Suaza of Eddie Stobart took the win
Campero going across the line for 7th place! A great ride from him!
| 1 | Jaime Suaza | Eddie Stobart | 3h38'30 | | 2 | Andrea Manfredi | Team Reddit | + 1'03 | | 3 | José Rujano | Andorra Cycling Project | + 1'13 | | 4 | Rafael Valls | Repsol - Honda | + 1'49 | | 5 | Ryan Eastman | Azteca-NBCSN | s.t. | | 6 | Dario Cataldo | Campari - Super Dry | s.t. | | 7 | Piter Campero | Garmin - BikeNZ Cycling | + 2'47 | | 8 | Pierre Paolo Penasa | Kulczyk - DMTEX | + 2'59 | | 9 | Enrico Battaglin | Philips - Continental | s.t. | | 10 | Winner Anacona | Team Reddit | s.t. |
A great race for the team!
Thanks for following!
Garmin-BikeNZ Management Team!
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 18-04-2018 12:35
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We had high hopes for Steele Von Hoff here at the Herald Sun Tour. His home race and just off a great Tour Of America.
The opening stage we had O'Connor in the 4 man breakaway. The peloton decided they forgot how to chases so the breakaway almost won the stage only beaten at the line by Anderson of Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack.
Stage 2 wasn't any better. Breakaway took the win, Maxime Monfort. Von Hoff came 2nd in the sprint 1'08 behind.
Stage 3 was the time trial. You can see what happened already right?
Monfort hold the lead and essentially wins the race. Tim Roe was our best finisher that day coming in 8th and moving to 8th overall.
Stage 4 was a bit better. Two riders in the top 10. Altanzul 4th and Von Hoff 9th. Winner was Eddie Stobart's Van der Ploeg from the breakaway.
The final stage, Breakaway win. This time Pellaud from Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack. The worst part about it is that Steel Von Hoff won the bunch sprint for 7th place.
So Monfort won the race overall. Roe finished 9th overall.
GC Results
| 1 | Maxime Monfort | Team Reddit | 13h12'26 | | 2 | Fabio Taborre | Statoil Pro Cycling | + 25 | | 3 | Haijun Ma | Team Reddit | + 33 | | 4 | Rohan Dennis | cycleYorkshire | + 38 | | 5 | Dmitri Grabovski | Philips - Continental | s.t. | | 6 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Aeropostal Venezuela Ciclismo | + 44 | | 7 | Hugues Mottin | Andorra Cycling Project | s.t. | | 8 | Andrew Tennant | cycleYorkshire | + 45 | | 9 | Timothy Roe | Garmin - BikeNZ Cycling | s.t. | | 10 | Freddy Cruz | Aeropostal Venezuela Ciclismo | + 46 |
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 01-05-2018 05:53
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BikeNZ leaves...Garmin steps down
So with our best season yet being another disappointment, we struggle to keep sponsors once again. This time BikeNZ has decided that it is the for them to step down after 2 seasons as a main sponsor with us. It will be sad to see them leaving the team but the results just aren't where they wanted them to be.
Garmin has also expressed their dissatisfaction, however, they have decided to stick with the team as a minor sponsor for 1 more year in order to see if results will pick up in the 2018 season. They have said that if the results pick up, they will resume their role as a major sponsor in the 2019 season.
Also leaving is Golomt Bank who have been with us since the beginning. Another sponsor we are sad to see go.
Now, without further ado, Let us please present the sponsors for the coming season!
The Bank of New Zealand takes up the mantle of our main sponsor of the team. For the first time since we were founded we only have one major sponsor. With this the team goes back to solely being a New Zealand team however, we have a strong influence from USA and Australia as always.
The Bank of New Zealand is a great asset to our team and we are very excited to have them join the team!
Island Records continue their sponsorship of the team! They were a great asset the past season and this year sees them up their sponsorship level. Island Records is now our 2nd highest paying sponsor and we really look forward to seeing what we can continue to do together in the future!
As mentioned Garmin has stepped down as a main sponsor. They are still on our sponsor list however. Garmin has been a huge asset and we hope they can continue to be apart of the team in coming seasons. Garmin supplies us with all our computer assets as well as some funds in order to make our team the best it can be!
People for Bikes is an amazing cause! We don't gain money or anything from this company but supporting them is enough for us! People for Bikes is amazing and we are very glad we have them on board once again this year!
Felt continues their sponsorship with the team! We love these bikes and are very happy to have them on the team once again!
Scody is new to the team. The Australian company will create all of our clothing this season. We are very glad to have them on board and can't wait to see our jersey when they create it!
There you have it! The new sponsor for our team. The team will now be known as BNZ Cycling Team and we cannot wait to start the new season!
Thanks for following!
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 01-05-2018 06:07
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Hope you can impress the sponsors more next year  Cool new sponsor, weird to have BNZ and ANZ in the game now - really makes me want to add Kiwibank to the mix
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 01-05-2018 09:38
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jandal7 wrote:
Hope you can impress the sponsors more next year Cool new sponsor, weird to have BNZ and ANZ in the game now - really makes me want to add Kiwibank to the mix
Battle of the banks  should do it hahaha
Nah thanks man!
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 01-05-2018 11:16
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Glad to see that you are in for next season.
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 01-05-2018 11:25
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Thanks mate!!
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 01-05-2018 16:32
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jandal7 wrote:
Hope you can impress the sponsors more next year Cool new sponsor, weird to have BNZ and ANZ in the game now - really makes me want to add Kiwibank to the mix
Yes, come up to PCT and we can have 'battle of the banks'; a fierce rivalry it will be
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 01-05-2018 23:18
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Eden95 wrote:
jandal7 wrote:
Hope you can impress the sponsors more next year Cool new sponsor, weird to have BNZ and ANZ in the game now - really makes me want to add Kiwibank to the mix
Yes, come up to PCT and we can have 'battle of the banks'; a fierce rivalry it will be
We are working on it mate Hahahaha.
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