Aaron Gate
@aarongate
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Well I said it was coming, and here it is! First win for
@EvoPro_Racing
on European soil.
Stage win and into the leader's jersey at Belgrade-Banjaluka
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Then there were 3! It takes a bit to bring a tear to my eye, but at 18:42 on 08/08, Axel Aaron Gate entered this world and he managed to do it
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Here I am today when I thought I spotted a fiver down in that grass ditch...
shame it was just a gel wrapper...
Cela aurait pu mal se terminer pour
@aarongate
de l'équipe
@AquaBlueSport
sur la 3e étape des
#4JDD
-
#cyclisme
#cycling
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The
@AquaBlueSport
@Ridley_Bikes
machine is looking sharp and ready to rock and roll at the NZ nationals tomorrow!
@KnightComposite
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Last year, the peloton mourned the loss of Michele Scarponi on the start line of today's race.
This year, my mate Alex Ray is currently fighting in ICU, after he too collided with a car, whilst doing what he loves.
20 years ago, my Dad made it through that same fight.
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Well it's time to stop sitting around looking at the
@3Tbike
, and go and race it! First stop:
@CadelRoadRace
🇳🇿🛫🛬🇦🇺 with
@AquaBlueSport
📸
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Would love to go back and set the race (not the bus...) on fire with
@AquaBlueSport
this year!
@lavuelta
#LaVuelta18
🇪🇦 21 etapas y 3271,4 km - ¡Nos vemos el 25 de agosto en Málaga!
#LaVuelta18
🇬🇧 21 stages & 3271,4 km - See you on August 25th in Malaga!
#LaVuelta18
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Nothing quite like a swinging Gate and a Flying Mullet going around in circles in Manchester for
@sixdaycycling
@EvoPro_Racing
@Theflyingmullet
Gate has come out swinging 🤜🤛
That's two race wins for
@aarongate
already at
#SixDayManchester
🚴💨
The Kiwi has picked up points in the Madison and derny!
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What a week! From silver at the Track World's in Hong Kong last weekend to a day in the breakaway at Liege-Bastogne-Liege in Belgium today
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Puncture took the air out of my lead out attempt for
@AdamBlythe89
's 3rd today. At least contributed a souvenir to a happy garçon
📸
@eddie_km
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Sometimes a picture says a thousand words...
Especially when you look at
@georgenbennett
in this one
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Race day! Still all smiles with 3323km to go...
#LV2017
📸 by the roomie for the next 3 weeks:
@Lasse_Norman
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Yeah, what's a bloody Kiwi doing riding from Serbia into Bosnia today anyway?? Probably a good thing border control let the peloton straight through at 50km/h 👌
A Kiwi won the first stage of Beograd-Banjaluka. 🇳🇿😅Congrats
@aarongate
! 👏👏👏
#BeogradBanjaluka
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Great Track World Champs with
@CyclingNZL
! Next stop is Belgium with
@AquaBlueSport
for a slightly different terrain - La Flèche Wallonne!
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Looking forward to chasing some results with the new
@EvoPro_Racing
squad next season!
Welcome to the team
@aarongate
!
Previously with Aqua Blue Sport, Aaron has an impressive palmarès including 3 stage wins in the An Post Rás and is also a former World Track Champion.
More info at:
#EvoPro
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Tough ol' day in the Aussie sunshine! The race was just 1km too long but got this orange jersey as consolation prize for last man standing
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Snuck my first World Tour top 10 in yesterday's sprint, thanks to
@MarkChristian8
's crafty manoeuvres. More 🇨🇭 alps today!
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Well after the final push through airport security, unlike the Poms, I can now successfully say this (edible) trophy IS COMING HOME!
#tourofaustria
#giantsaus
#FRACRO
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You just can't beat winning at home in the Silver Fern, especially in front of such an awesome crowd!
@cammy_stew1
was on fire. Thanks to everyone who rocked the
@trackworldcupnz
velodrome last night, it certainly helped us on our way to continuing the Kiwi's gold streak!
#twcnz
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First race outing for me for a few months, and first ever for the 1x
@3Tbike
... No win for
@AquaBlueSport
unfortunately, but a good day out all the same!
📸
@backy001
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Found a new corner in the
#paincave
whilst riding from Liege down to Bastogne and back today. 260km, 6.5hrs, 4300m climbing
@srmtraining
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First win of the year for me, and
@EvoPro_Racing
, at the tourderanges today! The guerciotti_official bike rolling nicely, with the biemme_sport kit lined up for its debut at the…
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Stoked to continue the
@CyclingNZL
Omnium winning streak of
@cammy_stew1
's here in Brissie this weekend, to make it 3 World Cups on the trot!
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Crazy... But yes no one injured, and we're a team of bike racers that still have our bikes! Stage 12 here we come
#LV2017
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Here I was thinking I was doing ok banging out 6hrs on the road today... But
@georgenbennett
just had to show me up by racing for 6hrs22min, and get a podium place, and ahead of the entire 2017 TdF top 3 at that!
#hitter
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Guess who's going to a bike race?? Rather excitied to be using the
@sciconbags
again for the first time in quite a while!
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Another 2nd place for
@AdamBlythe89
with
@AquaBlueSport
! Here's the Langer-man
@conordunnealot
providing us some double-draft in the finale
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Going to be a big 3 weeks with this crew; can't wait to get stuck into
@lavuelta
with
@AquaBlueSport
!
📸
@eddie_km
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Now I know why it's called the
@HammerSeries
: it's named after the tool that it feels like someone is beating your legs with for 2 hours straight 🔨 (as reflected by the 385watt normalised power for the entire race).
But hey, it was still a lot of fun! 😄
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I'm a Nu Zealunder, but surely "Turty Tree" has gotta be a good omen for tomorrow
@timbarry2
@NI_ALLO
?
@AquaBlueSport
#turtytree
#TWC2017
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Gave the world title a nudge or two today, but had to settle for silver in the end. Thanks to all that got me here
#twc2017
@swarbrickdotcom
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Can hardly type this my vision is so blurry after much Belgian grit in the eyes, but I survived the
#DDWV
battle,
@Lasse_Norman
up for 3rd!
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First Grandie! ✅ That
@lavuelta
was epic! Thanks
@RickDelaneyABS
and all
@AquaBlueSport
for a wicked 3 weeks. Cervesa por favor...
#LV2017
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Throwback to
@Theflyingmullet
and I's pre
@AquaBlueSport
Irish roots, along with the mustached
@myronsimpson
and clean-shaven
@Camkarwowski
😅
@rastailteann
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Getting the chest hairs stuck in my jersey zipper before the final descent still wasn't quite as painful as getting up these mountains
@tds
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Today was hard. But doing it all with
@AquaBlueSport
, and with this beautiful wife at the finish, you've gotta love it!
#LV2017
📸
@eddie_km
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We're racing in pink bits to help raise
#breastcancerawareness
, donations for the fight against it welcome at:
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On the way to the start of
@Driedaagse_
at the Grote Market in Bruges - the same place I proposed to my wife nearly 3 years ago!
With any luck the race will be as successful as that question was...
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King of the Mountain prize here in Frankfurt today calls for an
@oranjeboombeer
recovery cider with wifey!
Might have to be more than one though to replenish some of the 5000 calories I left behind on those Deutsch bergs...
#radklassiker
#addsomedutch
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Surely you'd be hard-pressed to take a more clichéd pic to sum up travelling to
@tds
...
#TourdeSuisse
@FlySWISS
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Single handed life skills that I now possess: breaking eggs, assembling bicycles, putting on socks, and pointing at heavy objects that you would like someone else to lift for you 👌
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Was sweet as racing back in black for the first time since last year's track World Championships.
Even better when it was onto the top step of the Points Race podium in Portugal.
📸:
@evitamarisa
@CyclingNZL
@Champion_System
@BontCycling
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Would have gone faster in today's
#BaloiseBelgiumTour
TT, but the cops were watching so I figured I'd better obey the speed limit... 🤓
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Belgium certainly knows how to through everything at your equipment, so good thing
@Ridley_Bikes
are about as Belgian as they come!
#BEtough
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Got 'round the World Tour, tour,
@tds
with an awesome crew which included 1x stage winner, 1x KoM, very dedicated staff and plenty of laughs
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Another
@AquaBlueSport
excursion to Belgium this morning, this time Dwars door West-Vlaanderen.
@sciconbags
looking after the precious cargo
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4 quick years and it's race eve at the Olympic Games... Let's go fast tomorrow
@CyclingNZL
!
#Rio2016
#teampursuit
#frothing
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Pictured here in an Aussie sandwich,
@Theflyingmullet
and I still scored a win in the final chase of the first night of racing in the
@melbournearena
! 2nd night is now in full speed.
@sixdaycycling
#SixDayMelbourne
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Two great weeks of racing with
@EvoPro_Racing
.
One in yellow in NZL, and one in green in AUS.
Now it's back to the boards for the Melbourne 3 day, a mini version of the
@sixdaycycling
series.
📸:
@ZWPhotography99
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Gotta love
@anpostras
locals! A kind lady handed me a lucky charm from the local chapel on the start line
#AnPostRas
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Bloody excited to be pulling on the black and white at my 8th
@UCI_cycling
Track World Championships today!
Team pursuit squad is ready to rip into it, 4pm local time, 4am NZ time.
@CyclingNZL
@UCI_Track
#uci_track
#Pruszkow2019
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First ride back in the Auckland spring in a few years, and I reckon it's gone soft! The clouds didn't produce any rain, I didn't get dive bombed by any magpies, and there was only one abusive driver!
#jafa
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Not the ideal start to the season; some metal reinforcing required for this Gate's wrist after a bingle in
#RaceMelbourne
.
Time to
@GoZwift
-ing indoors for a bit, and get a number pinned on my back again with
@AquaBlueSport
ASAP!
#upgradedhinge
#harderbetterfasterstronger
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Captain America and I got a bit of Dutch dirt on us today
@VoltaClassic
...
📸
@Ainaraepelde
@larrywarbasse
@AquaBlueSport
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Well there's one thing coming straight from
@UCI_Track
World Championships to
@flechewallonne
helped with: track standing on the Mur de Huy!
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Winner winner chicken dinner! Great ride by the team today, so a huge thanks to them and
@AnPost_CRC
staff, sponsors
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Stoked to be representing NZ at my second
@Olympics
! Can't wait to be in black on the track in Rio with an epic team
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Kirstie didn't seem brave enough to match my jersey yesterday... but she did at least colour coordinate with my new
@3Tbike
Strada Due!
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Good first day
@TourOfAustria
, was rewarded with a giant sausage and a super stylish jersey for the mountains classification 🤘
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Winter woollies must mean it's just about time to get this little guy into Aotearoa for his first Kiwi Summer!
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First race for
@BlackSpokeNZ
, first win!
Epic riding by the boys today. Roll on the rest of the
#nzcc
and 2020. @ Masterton, New Zealand
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Happy New year from GMT +13 in Kiwi-land everyone! Looking forward to lighting up 2018 in the blue and gold
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Let's hope these are battles that don't have to keep starting!
Thinking of you A Ray
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🙋♂️
Hands up if you had an awesome day in Brisbane! 🙋♀️🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ 🙋♀️ 🙋♂️
Congratulations to our gold medal winners,
@NettieEdmo
@BakerGeorgia
@santiqui98
Wai Sze Lee and
@aarongate
.
See you tomorrow for the final day of action.
#TissotUCITrackWC
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Interesting Facebook memory to pop up with today's surprise
@AquaBlueSport
announcement - from
#LaVuelta
last year, to nada
📸:
@eddie_km
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This was the "top" of yesterday's 28km climb with
@dairef1996
; I think the reason they put these pretty peace flags over the road through the KOM point was to numb the pain of the fact that there was actually still 8km of climbing ahead....
@EvoPro_Racing
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Narrowly avoided hitting one of the lovely podium ladies with the 5th giant sausage today 🙄 .
Another succ-salami-ful day up the road in the break for more bergsteiger points
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Headed off with a couple other blokes for a hundred odd km at Eure et Loir today. But, had to settle for most combative jersey getting caught a mere 400m to go. Still, nice little test for the legs, with 2 more stages for
@EvoPro_Racing
to take the reigns of!
📸: Michel Vautelin
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Got a late call up to the next round of
@HammerSeries
. Racing kicks off tonight here
@hammerlimburg
! Time to Climb, Sprint, Chase again with
@AquaBlueSport
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First day in the new
@EvoPro_Racing
get-up, and it was a win! Can't complain with that one. Big week, and year, ahead with the squad!
.
#evorevolution
.
ride_cycling_festival_nz…
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Solid day out in Circuit de Wallonie. Out classed by the bigger teams unfortunately, but had an absolute blast racing my bike aggressively with
@EvoPro_Racing
. Form seems good, so with some luck will be able to make the most of it in our 2 French 1-dayers this weekend! 🍀
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Kiwi Sprint boys are World Champions once again!
@EthanMitchell3
@SammyWebster
@EddieDawkins
#hattrick
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Almost have to let the use of the word "whip" slide when the bikes look this good! 😎 🤣
Introducing… the 2023
@Pinarello_com
team whip 💜
📸
@JoyceGhijs
#theartofbalance
#iconmakers
#pinarello
#dogma
#dogmaf
#pinarellodogma
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After a busy time through the track season and into the road season, it's so nice to finally get a weekend at 'home' for the first time since early November.
Enjoying these couple of days with my beautiful wifey and our rapidly growing boy!
We can't wait to meet you mini-Gate!
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First day back in NZ and I was wide awake waaaay too early. Is this jetlag, or excitement for new bike day
@EvoPro_Racing
?
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We're racing here in Italy today to get the European season underway. Time to bolt on the climbing legs!
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Unreal ride by the TP boys
@trackworldcupnz
!! So close to that World Record on home soil.
Can't wait to get stuck into the Mado tomorrow
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Sunday stroll on the slammed Strada. Feels so good to be back on the road, especially on this
@3Tbike
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Yep, absolutely gutted to lose the lead on the final stage of the tour today. But what can you do when you get attacked whilst coming back from a puncture, and seeing
@Cyrus_Monk
hit the floor right in front of me. Still, can't thank the entire
@EvoPro_Racing
team enough!
Must be tough for
@aarongate
to lose the race like this, on the last stage...
#BelgradeBanjaluka
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Only needed to be in Denmark for 24hrs for this Dane to show
@AquaBlueSport
some local hospitality in the form of a win! 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
@Lasse_Norman
#pndkr18
#tak
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I reckon our Derny driver Cordiano had a few too many Italian Espresso's with his lunch today... Topping out at 78.8km/h, that's the fastest my legs have spun for a while!!
#fullgaseh
@aarongate
on fire in derny - that was tight. Be great to have a dozen of these bikes
@HomeofCycling
- Well I can dream.
#SixDayLondon
just gets better great show team
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Off to the other bike race that kicks off this weekend! Looking forward to getting stuck in with
@stefandenifl
(
#Arnie
) at his home race, and the rest of the
@AquaBlueSport
crew
@TourOfAustria
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Big day on the cards! My first ever World Tour race and first
@UCI_cycling
pro race as a pro with
@AquaBlueSport
#FullGas
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Hard day at the office today, and another meeting with more bergs scheduled for tomorrow.
📸:
@eddie_km
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After an interesting two weeks, we're going exploring - Kirstie behind the wheel, me behind the handlebars.
Sector 1a: Girona->Sitges.
1b: Sitges->Valencia (in the car... I didn't fancy an extra 300k on the pedals 🙄)
Looking forward to seeing what's around that next corner!
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The 1x bicycle went up 2x new climbs today and now I'm 3x more cooked than a bowl of french pasta.
#1x
#andorra
#rabassa
#fontaneda
#frenchcuisine
@AquaBlueSport
@3Tbike
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