SALES

Our 2014 stock is starting to arrive in store and we need to clear out 2013 styles and models. We have all winter clothing at up to 30% off and great specials on all 2013 model bikes. Come in and grab yourself a bargain!!

Carnival of Flowers Ride

To celebrate the beautiful Carnival of Flowers this year, I-Ride will be hosting a Garden Bike Tour. This will be in place of our usual shop ride on Saturday the 21^st September leaving the shop car park at 6am. A leisurely paced tour around some of Toowoomba’s gorgeous gardens will finish with coffee and breakfast for a nice and easy morning for all of our customers. The route to be taken will be decided upon closer to the event. We hope you can all join us for this change of pace to observe our wonderful surrounds.

2013 Flight Centre Cycle Epic Mountain Bike Race

September 14^th and 15^th sees the annual Epic Mountain Bike race at Spicer’s Hidden Vale, Granchester. This race caters for all ages and levels of skill including a Family Fun Ride which the whole family can participate in. We would like to wish all of our customers competing in this event the very best of luck, we hope that you enjoy the event and make it through safely.

QLD XC State Mountain Bike Champs

A massive congratulations to our very own Mitch Hawley on placing 3^rd in the recent QLD XC State Mountain Bike Champs in Townsville. This is a wonderful result and we are all very proud of Mitch – no one more so then his fantastic parents I’m sure! Well done!!

Workshop News
With the Flight Centre Cycle Epic and Sunshine 70.3 Ironman being held on the same weekend this year the workshop boys will be getting a pretty good work out themselves. If you are wanting your bike checked, serviced or wheels changed before the big day then it would be best to book in now.

Triathlon News
Hope everyone is training hard for the first Sunshine 70.3 Ironman next month. With the race only 4 weeks away it only seems like yesterday when the race sold out in just minutes.

Toowoomba Tri Club has run its second duathlon and the next one in the series will be next month. These races are held at the Glenvale Crit Track and are an excellent opportunity to race on a closed circuit. Visit their website for further details.

Total Tools Toowoomba Junior Tour

The weekend of the Total Tools Toowoomba Junior Tour arrived and the sun was shining. It was one of the hottest winter days that Toowoomba had experienced in a very long time. Our event is points based with the GC rider in every age group hotly contended.

90 junior riders took part in 4 stages over the 2 days, aged from 7 to 16.

The Queensland Junior U15 and U17 State Teams travelled with their Manager and Head Coach Peter Richards and to add the  competition we had 10 riders from NSW who  travelled many hours to use our Tour to prepare for the National Junior Road Championships (Wagga Wagga September).

The Big 4 Caravan Park was another key sponsor and provided  great accommodation for the riders and families.

The first stage of the Tour was a Prologue around the Criterium track. The 9's, 11's & 13's did 1 lap of the track while the 15's & 17's did 2 laps. Some very fast laps were achieved with juniors trying to knock time off what they did last year. The race was on for points to start the Tour in the lead.

The second stage was a Road Race and for the first time the 15's  (35km) & 17's ( 63km) were taken out of the Crit track and to the roads of Toowoomba for a full on Road Race. The juniors and their parents were amazed to see the race convey we had created:

2 police cars
2 Total Tools Nissan Navara's
5 cars including the famous TLD wagon and a brand new Holden VF SS Redline - in Bright TLD Orange (donated by Toowoomba Holden for the day) &
2 moto-scouts

It was like our own little Tour de France here in Toowoomba. The riders left from the Crit track and headed out to Bunkers Hill and back finishing with an exciting lap of the Criterium track.

Sunday morning was warm and the wind Gods had been kind, there was no wind at all at the top of Postle Street. Free Tea and Coffee for Mums and Dads went down a treat as the kids got ready for the now famous Hill Climb.

9s, 11s, & 13s came up Postle Street. A more extreme version was needed for the older kids as the 15s and 17s came up the infamous Haden Street to finish at the top of Postle. Families lined the hills and cheered kids on, it was also noted that all kids who had finished stayed around and cheered for all the other riders knowing how hard it was. Excellent sportsmanship.

All back to the Crit track for the final Criterium Events in the afternoon. Exciting finishes in all races with riders strategically going for prime points to have a crack at the GC positions. This ensured families really enjoyed the day and our great facilities in Toowoomba.

We had a great tour MC, our good friend Sharyn Watson from the Gold Coast Cats. She researched all the kids stats and knows many of the faces. She didn't stop talking for 2 days which is not unusual for her but added something special to the event.

GC prizes this year were Total Tools replica of the Giro Italia mascots, mini cycling jerseys stitched together as cushions !!

We would like to thank our sponsors and our loyal volunteers for their support in making the Total Tools Junior Tour something that kids and parents will be talking about for a while !!!

We have now secured Total Tools for a further 2 years as naming sponsor making this a key event in the Junior Racing calendar.

Enjoy the pictures and for more photos follow us on facebook : Toowoomba Cycling Club Junior Tour.

Up Coming Events

(Road Racing Mountain Bike Racing Triathlon Racing)

25^th August                  QLD Elite Road Champs @ Kalbar

25^th August                  QLD State DH Champs @ Mt Joyce

1^st September              Sunshine Coast Junior Tour @ Sunshine Coast

1^st September              QRTS Criterium @ Murarrie

6^th – 8^th September     Australian Junior Road Champs @ Wagga Wagga

7^th September             QLD ITT Champs @ Purga

8^th September             Toowoomba Tri Club Duathlon @ Toowoomba Crit Track

8^th September             QLD Masters Road Champs @ Kalbar

8^th September             Yakima Sunshine MTB Series Finals @ Samford

15^th September           Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast @ Mooloolaba

15^th September           Flight Centre Cycle Epic @ Granchester

Hope you are all happy, healthy and enjoying cycling.