A NEW cycle club is in the making as the sport continues to grow with the involvement of many of the country’s youths, who are looking for an avenue to expend their energies in the right direction, while seeking to carve their names into Guyana’s history books.

According to former national hockey player Stephen Fernandes, now-turned-cyclist, plans are in the pipeline for the formation of a new cycle club that will be named Team Evolution.
Fernandes told Chronicle Sport that the idea of the formation of the club came about sometime late last year when he recognised that a few of the top performers in the sport during the 2014 season were riding unattached and he noticed that they were riding as a team, helping each other during road and National Park events.
This he said, caused him to approach these cyclists and enquire if they would like to be part of a unified team with affiliation to the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) and they all agreed.
The cyclists so far are Fernandes himself, Michael Anthony, Marlon `Fishy’ Williams, Keith Fernandes and Orville Hinds.
Fernandes said he and Andrew Arjoon, known better for Squash, held discussions and they both thought that it would be a positive move in the right direction. Arjoon subsequently accepted to be the secretary of the club and has already drafted a letter to be sent to the GCF seeking the club’s affiliation to the ruling body.
This Fernandes said would be done before the end of the week, since he plans to get the members participate in this Saturday’s Ricks and Sari 22nd annual 11-race programme in the National Park. Last year. Hinds won 11 races and placed among the top five 20 times.
He said while he will be out of the country on business for one week, the above-named cyclists will don the club’s attire (uniform).
Fernandes, who represented Guyana at the junior and senior levels at hockey, said the club’s constitution is almost completed and this would be submitted to the GCF before the end of the week.
Fernandes, who is now a veteran (because of his age), competes in the category with Guyana’s leading cyclists and not with veterans like himself.

(By Michael DaSilva)