Port Macquarie rider Matt Connelly was selected last week as the fourth Real Aussie Kids team member to represent Australia in 2008.
Matt was announced in the Australian U19 Development team to race in Montreal, Canada in August this year. The announcement follows the earlier confirmation that Lauren Kitchen, Sarah Kent and Tom Palmer would represent Australia at the junior world Championships in Cape Town, South Africa in August.

Connelly, who only started riding two years ago, showed his potential as a first year U19 rider in the qualifying races for the Aussie Team in Tasmania where he finished 10th  outright and with a  4th position in the Australian Championships at Murwillumbah two weeks later he signalled ...

Lauren Kitchen showed no mercy to her fellow competitors when she took out the Mersey Valley U19 Women’s Tour in a confident performance on the weekend. The tour, which was the first of the selection races for the Junior World’s Team, was staged in the hilly terrain of northern Tasmania near Devonport.  Kitchen also won the Queen of the Mountain Title, finishing the tour a staggering 8minutes in front of her nearest rival Chloe Hoskins from the ACT.  Fellow RAK team mate Camille Pallett (WA ), also put in a strong performance coming 2nd in Stage 3, and 4th overall, putting both RAK members on the selector’s short list for the National Team.

In the U19’s Men’s Tour, Matt Connelly and Tom Palmer were the best performing RAK riders coming 10th an ...

It was a display of total dominance by the Real Aussie Kids U17 men at the first NSW road event of the season held in Bathurst on the weekend.
The famed Mt Panorama was the setting for the NSW Hill Climb Championships, which opened the weekend’s racing events, with Lachlan Morton taking out the gold medal in a time 17 seconds faster than silver medallist and RAK team mate Sam Spokes.  The newest recruit to the RAK program, 14 year old Jared Triggs, put in a strong performance finishing 5th in the same event, against riders 18months his senior. Perhaps more impressive than Morton’s win was the fact that his time was the second fastest time over all including the open men’s category.
In the U17 Criterium, hel ...

Real Aussie Kids rider Sam Spokes was a key player in the NSW Team in the Team Pursuit Championship at the Junior Ausrtalian Track Championships at Dunc Gray Velodrome, Sydney,  yesterday.  The Team qualified as fastest team with a time of 3min 29 sec, narrowly beating South Australia's time by .01 of a second.  They then went on to improve their time by a second in the final and convincingly claimed the Gold Medal.

RAK Rider, Sam Spokes,  will be flying the NSW flag at the upcoming Junior National Track Championships in three weeks at the DuncGray Velodrome in Sydney. Spokes put in an impressive performance at the NSW State Championships last week when he won the U17 Scratch Race Championship and won a Silver Medal in the Individual Pursuit Championship. Fellow RAK rider Lachlan Morton came 5th in each of the events. 

Team Manager, David Morton said “If ever there was a perfect example of putting in the hard miles and reaping the rewards, Sam’s Track campaign is it!” .  “We have watched, Spokesy’s steady progress,  and two years of Colorado mountains in his legs ...

Golden girl, Sarah Kent has received yet another award,  being named  Western Australian Female "Track Cyclist of the Year" for the second year in a row. The award is based on an accumulated points system of number of races, wins and places.

Young RAK riders, Lachlan Morton and Sam Spokes have been awarded Development Scholarships with the NSW Institute of Sport. The two riders were presented with their clothing and accessories at local media conferences in their home towns of Port Macquarie and Tamworth, and given a VIP tour of the NSWIS facilities, last week in Sydney.  As Scholarship Athletes, the pair will have access to local Gym facilities as well as physiotherapy, nutrition, sports psychology & medicine, bio mechanics and physiological testing.  “This is well deserved recognition of the two riders by the state body”, said coach Graham Seers, “they both have an exciting future ahead in the sport”.   See their interviews on
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Two RAK/Drapac Porsche riders Sarah Kent and Tom Palmer have earned the honour of representing Australia for the second time at the Junior World Track Cycling Championships in South Africa in July.  The Junior Track Cycling Team was announced last week by Cycling Australia and boasts an impressive line up. See full team list on