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| 28 February 2008 2008 Club Calendar The Kununurra Cycle Club has been working on the 2008 calendar, it is now in the final draft stages... click here to have a look, feedback is welcomed. |
| Kununurra Cycle Club has been sponsored by Healthway and Sports Medicine Australia and is pleased to promote the "Healthy Club" message |
| 15 March 2008 Kununurra Cycle Club AGM Minutes available here Presidents Report available here Gibb River Road Mountain Bike Challenge News Available here Tom Lowry Memorial presented by the Collie Cycle Club Information and registration form available here |
| Don't play sport to keep fit - Get fit to play your sport! Lack of fitness is a major cause of injury |
| 7 April 2008 Press Release - Kununurra Cycling Club setting 2008 Alight By Jesse Mortensen Members of the Kununurra Cycling Club have huge goals for 2008, and the club training is in full swing. Weekly motor-pacing and other rides are accelerating the fitness of all participants, and with new members joining every week it looks like Kununurra Cycling Club is set to have a bumper year. With long time club stalwarts Marion and Trevor Floyd and Keith Good competing on Port Augusta the club has enlisted Club President Jodie Craig to tow the team around the streets of Kununurra at speeds of up to 60 kilometres per hour. World 24 Hour Mountain Bike Championship Competitor Brendan Den has special incentive with wife Wendy regularly reminding him to �harden up princess� Approaching events for the club include the Gibb River Road Cycling Challenge in May, the Tennant Creek Tour in July and the peak of the year, the Alice Springs Masters Games. Previous years has seen Kununurra bring home a swag of medals and this year is shaping up to be even bigger, with entrants in almost every age group. New members are always welcome, with Sunday morning social rides leaving the post office at 6:30am. For further details contact Club President Jodie Craig on 0438 161 074 or check out our Youtube Video by searching for Kununurra. Latest Gibb River Road Mountain Bike Challenge News Please click here for the seventh edition of Gravel Rush in the 2008 campaign of the Gibb River Road Mountain Bike Challenge. The monthly electronic newsletter will see one final edition before our Challenge starts from Derby on Monday the 12th of May and then a final review in the weeks following my return from Annual Leave. I trust that you'll enjoy the irreverent read and hope that you're joining us in Derby. If not, perhaps 2009 - the year of the Ox could be your year too. Cycle Indonesia Interested in a cycle tour of Indonesia? Have a look at this site: http://www.cycleindonesia.com.au Kununurra Legends Bumper Stickers KNXCC received a bundle of free bumper stickers from the deraprtment of Sport & Recreation and Be Active WA, if you haven't received one yet please ask! Sport Leadership Grants for Women Apply for your share of $400,000 Are you a leader in sport? The Sport Leadership Grants for Women provide funding and support for women to seek accredited training and education in coaching, officiating, governance and management. Grants of up to $5,000 for individuals and $10,000 for organisations are available in five categories: high performance coaching and officiating; Indigenous sport; disability sport; culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; and general sport leadership. Be the best you can be and apply today Click here |
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| 14th March 2008 "The committee and members of the Kununurra Cycle Club were deaply saddened to hear of the sudden death of club member Jim Hughes on Sunday morning. We offer our sincerest condolences to Jim�s family and friends and our hearts go out to Judy and Julia." Jim Hughes shock death (http://www.kimberleyecho.com/archive/2008/20080320/story1.html) ONE of the East Kimberley�s main players over many years Jim Hughes died suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday. The father of the sugar industry in the Ord Valley; he was just 61. Mr Hughes had just returned from a 55km bike ride when he collapsed and died of a suspected heart attack. His funeral will be held on March 29 at 4pm at the Kununurra Cemetery. His wife Judy said she would like the occasion to be a celebration of his life rather than a sad affair. The ceremony will be immediatelyfollowed with a function at the Hughes� property at 511 Riverfarm Road. Mr Hughes came to Kununurra in 1968 and has played a major part in its development and sporting life since then. He grew up on a farm near Kapunda in SA until he was about nine, when his father died and the family moved to town. After attending the local high school he went on to study at Roseworthy Agricultural College. Mr Hughes worked for the South Australian Department of Agriculture and on a sheep station before taking up a posting with the CSIRO in Kununurra. He arrived in the final days of cotton and worked at the Kimberley Research Station for four years. Mr Hughes farmed and became Ingham�s property manager, growing grains such as sorghum. He moved from chairman of the board of the Ord River District Cooperative (ORDC) to becoming its CEO on July 1, 1983 and was the main player instrumental in getting a sugar industry up and running in the Ord Valley. His leadership has taken the ORDC from a small operation to the significant investment business it is today, operating the Wyndham Port and the adjacent fuel farm. Some of his achievements include organising the export of maize to New Guinea, Indonesia and Singapore; the direct export of rockmelons to Singapore and Hong Kong; and the production of chick peas for human consumption for export to the Mediterranean. Long time friend Rob Boshammer said Mr Hughes always pushed himself to the limit, giving 100 per cent of himself. This also applied in the community and sporting fields. He was a Rotarian and Paul Harris Fellow, Kununurra Citizen of the Year, a champion tennis player and club organiser, footballer, water skier and, in recent times, snow skier and cyclist. He has been the backbone of organising the Ord Valley Muster and Kimberley Moon Experience. �Jim always had five or six projects on at a time,� Mr Boshammer said. �He also had a good sense of humour and was fond of a practical joke.� Farmer and long-time friend Gabriele Bloeker said: �Jim had a very strong personality and the ability to bring people to work together, an extreme strength, in an area where there has always been some very strong personalities.� |
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| 19 January 2009 Welcome to the Kununurra Cycle club web site. We are a social club that cater for all types of cyclists. From the competitive to the social rider who likes to keep fit and enjoys a coffee after a ride. We do a social ride every Sunday. Have a look at our calendar of events and you will see that we try and cater for everyone, with club rides and some racing as well. For the competitive rider there are some big events this year, we have Trevor Floyd going to the National Track titles in Tasmania, Trevor Floyd, Keith Good and George Kemble going to the N.T Track Titles, and Trevor and Marian Floyd will be going to Ceduna Masters Games all in April. There is also the Barkly Challenge Two day tour in Tenant Creek, we will try and get more club members to come to this, its a great weekend. As we are so close to Darwin we try and travel there a couple of times a year for some of their events, just to have the race practice. The N.T Road Titles in June, and they have great criterum circuit on the Hidden Valley race track, so going up to compete is great fun as well as shopping / restaurants / movies etc. Our club is in the middle of making a few changes, as we are such a small club and are so far away from any other W.A Cycling club we are trying to amalgamate with Darwin Cycle club. This will take a while till we know if the club is allowed to do this, so until then we will carry on as usual. |