Hope Gibbons Trial Back Next Season

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31134, 10 August 1966, Page 16

Hope Gibbons Trial Back Next Season

The “glamour” Hope 11 Gibbons 25-mile teams’ i trial event will be reinstituted on the Canter- < bury road cycling pro- I gramme next season. < The Canterbury Amateur j Cycling Centre decided this , last evening after receiving an . inquiry from the council of . the N.Z.A.C.A. whether it ' would again hold the centre race. ( The winning team in the i centre event goes forward to i the national final. In the last, i two years Canterbury has not| held a centre final. (j

It was originally suggested 1 that the centre should return i' 1 I f 1 1 ( ( t ! ( t < t t i a t

its shield but Mr B E. Dawe did not agree. “It has been the decision of this meeting not to hold the Hope Gibbons, a decision confined to the 18 or so in this meeting,” he said. “It is high time we asked riders for their opinions. I know a great many are disappointed at the Hope Gibbons not being held." His motion, seconded by Mr G. Tabak, that the 25-tnile teams’ event be again placed on the programme received (unanimous support. The composition of teams lin the 100 kilometres teams

time trial was also discussed The meeting favoured holding the race earlier so that further trials could be held before the national finals, with teams chosen by the selectors. A social night for all cyclists and officials— cash and amateur .. be organised by the Co h mmitt“e rCh Tr,ek Cycl "’ B The new administration blo< k *he £ M?e' ,h P * rk 18 P ro P Obfd ” The committees suggestion * ve " ln B„ received the bless U!®. ,h <? c * n **rbury Amateur ™ Cen,r * *nd the track ommittee was left to organise hese meetings on Thursday tvenings. _ rt T!? e committee proposes in iold such activities as tabl* ennis. indoor bowls and dar»« <nd cyclists would be able to indertake extra activities, such is using training rollers The idea is to give riders and Mncials of both codes an opportunity to mix