Hornby gains another sponsored cycling team

Press, 29 April 1981, Page 25

Hornby gains another sponsored cycling team

Another sponsored cycling team has been formed within the Hornby cash cycling club. The president of the club. Mr Brent Stanaway, announced yesterday that Nicholas Nickleby, a menswear company, had become linked with professional cycling.

Himself a rider from close to the back marks. Mr Stanaway will be joined in the team by Chris Giddens, his predecessor as Hornby club president and another breakmark rider. Greg Cox and Frank Paviell. All of them are relatively new to cycling. Stanaway and Giddens both just starting their third seasons, while Paviell started last season after a sporting career of harrier racing, and Cox made his debut during this summer.

They have not been short of successes, either, with Paviell having the hard-luck story to tell. An all-the-way leader of the Timaru-to-Christchurch race last year, on his cycling debut. Paviell was mown down in the final kilometres and finished ninth.

Cox. for his part, won his first race, at Leeston; Giddens won the John Archer Cup race: while Stanaway all

but stole the Canterbury 100 km title from the more fancied riders, only being caught in the sprint. Giddens was also a member of the Canterbury team which won the national 40km team time trial title, and he and Stanaway rode both the Warnambool-to-Melbourne classic and the Australian championships last season. "We've kept the team small for a start — we'll possibly build on it later — and deliberately chosen from a spread of the handicap marks. " said Mr Stanaway. He also said his setting up of the team was inspired by

the successes of the Bascik team, which set the trend. "In my view, we should act as professionally as possible." said Mr Stanaway. "and I see this sort of move as a step towards full-time professionalism." Mr Stanaway said his sponsor. Mr Craig Nicholas, had only entered the field of sponsorship last year and "he welcomed the opportunity to sponsor our team. He has been attracted by the publicity now going to cycling," said Mr Stanaway. The team’s colours will be black and gold, but outfitting is not yet completed.