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About Fly V australia Pro Cycling Team
Hank Vogel is the director sportif of the new Fly V australia Pro Cycling Team. Fly V australia Professional Cycling Team, is an international team, predominately made up of Australia’s most talented cyclists. The team is supported by a leadership group of experienced riders and management. Among the 15 riders on the UCI continental squad there are 10 Australians, two South Africans and one rider each from Canada, Italy and the United States giving us an Australian flavour but an international representation.
We have the current Australian Criterium Champion, ten riders who have represented their country at Commonwealth Games, Olympics and World Championships level. We also have three former national champions on the road and track and one current and one former track World Record holders and champions.
2009 saw Fly V australia Pro Cycling Team debut in style with a total of 94 race wins across Australia and the USA. Our primary objectives for the season is to improve on the success of 2009 by becoming the leading professional team in North America and Australia and to build a platform for elevation to Professional Continental status in 2011.
Five West Australian five riders represented at World Championships.
Cameron Myer, Travis Myer, Scott Sunderland, Josephine Tomic and Sarah Kent all recipients of funding from the HVCF represented Australia at the 2009 World Track Championships in Poland. 
West Australia will be well represented in the under 23 World Track Championships in Moscow. Melissa Hoskins, Luke Durbridge and Michaela Anderson all travel to Russia to compete in August partly funded by the HVCF.
HVCF donated $1000 to the Victorian Bush Fire disaster Fund.
 HVCF donated $1500 to Christopher Thomas Barty to purchase a new set of high performance Spinergy wheels, tires and spokes for the World Championships (wheels usually only last a season because of the high impact nature of the sport)
Chris is unique in that he is one of the few Cerebal Palsy disabled athletes to participate at this level (most are amputees) making his playing task even more difficult
Record:
- 2008 Australian u23 squad and selected in May 2009 for Australian Team for 2009 World Championships in Paris July 2009
- Member WA Junior State Wheelchair Team 2006-07
- Player Perth Wheelcats in National Wheelchair Basketball League Competition 2007-2008
- Player in World Club Championships with Perth Wheelcats in Osaka Japan Dec 2008
- Member 2009 Arizona University Wheelchair team on sports scholarship (participating in National USA University Competition)
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Henk Vogels Cycling Foundation announces Tour De France Green Jersey winner Baden Cooke as special guest for the 2009 Annual Dinner.
The night’s interviews with Karen Tighe of ABC Sports provided listeners with entertaining accounts of Stuart’s fantastic career ...... click 