Cy­cle club Rigtech Son­ics will cel­e­brate its 30th an­niver­sary in the sport on Au­gust 30 and will host a vir­tu­al ses­sion at which its mem­bers will go down mem­o­ry lane on their ac­com­plish­ments to date.

Roger Fron­tin, who holds po­si­tions of vice pres­i­dent, man­ag­er and coach at the club, said de­spite the re­stric­tions posed by the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, a vir­tu­al meet­ing will be held, and at that time pho­tos will be shared among the mem­bers, as well as oth­er mem­o­ries of the achieve­ments of the club over the years.

The club was found­ed by a num­ber of for­mer cy­clists, in­clu­sive of Noel and Kent Luces (both de­ceased), Ian Mc Lean, Frank Git­tens and Stephen Joseph, among oth­ers in 1991.

Fron­tin said the club's fo­cus has al­ways been on the de­vel­op­ment of the young rid­ers, point­ing to some of the coun­try's top rid­ers as their prod­ucts, such as Olympians Njisane Phillip, Nicholas Paul and Te­niel Camp­bell, Zion Puli­do, Ak­ile Camp­bell, D'An­ge­lo Har­ris, Bar­ry Luces, and broth­ers Mark and Jude Co­dring­ton, among many oth­ers.

Phillip, who now en­ters the fray of coach­ing, has en­joyed a dec­o­rat­ed cy­cling ca­reer that saw him fin­ish fourth over­all in the sprints at the 2012 Olympics in Lon­don, Eng­land, apart from achiev­ing mul­ti­ple medals and tro­phies at Pan Amer­i­can Games, the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games and many oth­er meets.

Paul, who be­gan rid­ing at Rigtech, is cur­rent­ly is the world record-hold­er in the fly­ing 200 me­tres sprints af­ter pro­duc­ing a time of 9.100 sec­onds at the Pan Am Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in 2019. Paul al­so forced the world to recog­nise his tal­ent by qual­i­fy­ing for the quar­ter­fi­nal of the match sprint and the semi­fi­nal of the keirin events at the re­cent­ly held Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

Mean­while, Puli­do, con­sid­ered a new-found rid­er on the lo­cal cy­cling scene, was the fastest starter at the Elite Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onship, which took place from June 23-29 in Li­ma, Pe­ru.

Fron­tin said his club, orig­i­nal­ly from Pleas­antville, will con­tin­ue to de­vel­op young po­ten­tial rid­ers and pre­pare them to rep­re­sent the coun­try at in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tions.

On the rise at Rigtech Son­ics are a num­ber of young su­per-tal­ent­ed rid­ers such as moun­tain bik­er Mick­el Lopez, Mosa Williamson, Ju­dah Nev­er­son and Ker­sheve Paul. Fron­tin said the club has al­so part­nered with a non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion called 'No Youths Left Be­hind' to con­struct a moun­tain bike/BMX track in the La Brea area.