Happy New Year to all the Goldstars members.

We hope you have all had a good rest and are raring to get back into training and racing. It is a BIG Road season this year especially for our juniors, so to kick things off and to celebrate the end of track season Dave and Mal would like to invite junior members, their families and all senior members to a Goldstars Beach BBQ on the 21 Jan at North Burleigh Beach at 9am. Please RSVP with Mal or Dave if you are coming, so they can organize the BBQ.

Also keep in mind the Goldstars Junior General Meeting on Tuesday, 31st January at Nerang at 5.00pm where the Club’s plans for the year will be outlined.

Hope to see you all there!

Remember training for junior starts next Tuesday 4pm.

Members- The CA membership database system has been outsourced to IMG Sports Technology.
So, on-line licence renewal login protocol has changed. You should have been emailed a new computer generated user name and password which will allow you to do two things-

1. Renew you licence for 2012 (required to race New Years Day) and
2. Change your user name and password to something you will not forget.

We recommend you do both these things.

If you have not yet received the email from CA, or have lost it, email me, and I will send you your username/password.

goldstarscyclingclub@gmail.com

During the past year, the Club has introduced a new web site and Club logo which is prominently displayed on our new Club trailer. Accordingly, plans are afoot to assimilate the new logo into the Club outfit toward the end of 2012. This will require a re-design of the current kit and approval from the general membership which takes time.

Consequently, the current outfit, of which the Club is holding more than adequate stock needs to be run out to sufficient stock levels to allow a change in outfit.

To allow this to occur, the Club warrants that the current outfit will remain as authorised Club kit that can be worn in Open Events until the end of 2013. And, the price of the kit is to be significantly reduced to accelerate the sales and allow it to be purchased for training as well as racing.

Full outfit is now $100.00

Wind vest $50.00

Skinsuit $100.00

Will remain currency for next 2 years.

email: goldstarscyclingclub@gmail.com to order.

A great afternoon was had by all at the Goldsstars’ Awards Presentation at Evandale Park .The weather held and the food was great. Congratulations to all of our nominees and award winners. See the attached PDF for full details. A big congratulations to our four main award recipients:

Club Person of the Year – Kent Druery

Junior Rider of the Year – Joshua Watson

Master Rider of the Year – Andre Clayden

Rider of the Year – Jessie Kerrison (accepted by Darren Kerrison on behalf of Jesse)

Also a big thank you to everybody who helped out with putting up the tents and organising the trophies.

2011 Awards

After about 5 years as clothing officer, Deb Wardrop is handing on the baton.

So, the Club is in need of a new clothing officer who can deal with the storage and sale of the Club kit. Interested persons can email goldstarscyclingclub@gmail.com

Well done to the ten Goldstars’ teams who competed in the Queensland Teams Time Trial Championships at Trent Hill. A special congratulation to the following teams who placed in the event:

For more details visit our facebook group.

From the 1st of October you will be able to renew your membership for 2012. All 2011 licences will become invalid from the 1st of January 2012.

For the first time Cycling Australia will be responsible for processing all memberships directly, with Cycling Queensland having no role to play. CA will now control its database using a system called IMG Sports Technology. This is the same system used by the NRL, AFL, Swimming Australia and a number of other national sporting bodies.

Although many of the changes will be behind the scenes there are some important ones that will effect you:

1. As a current member, CA will send you an automatically generated username and password at the beginning of October. This will allow you to enter the IMG System, renew your membership and at any time alter your personal details.
2. As the Secretary I will have access to the data and therefore the Club will no longer generate its own membership list. Any personal information changes you make will be instantly updated on the system.
3. There is a new membership structure for 2012 including Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze memberships as well as small changes to the Ride It licence categories. Most members will be Gold members – more details to come.
4. All current members and any new members will apply for their memberships online. There will be no manual (paper) membership renewals except in extreme circumstances. This will be advantageous for you because this year it will be CHEAPER to apply online and it will be FASTER. The Club plans to have a computer with internet access at races to assist those members who have trouble getting online.
5. There are minor changes to Transfers as CA will now manage the process.

More information will be released soon including the fee structure.

Damien McFarline, Secretary