Duffy Role Model Assembly

Thursday 10th September 2015

For our Duffy Model Assembly we had a special guest Myron Simpson. He is a cyclist from New Zealand who came second in the Jr world championship in Mexico in 2007 , and was taught to ride a BMX bike when he was three by his father. He also has two older brothers who used to ride BMX bikes also. The first ever time he represented New Zealand was when he was 8. In his spear time when he is not training he likes to read book. He has heaps of spear time so he started up his own company called Myron's Muesli.

Even though he made a career with riding bikes his two older brother did not. But sometimes he races with his brothers for fun. At one point he showed us his bike,helmet,suit and shoes. First he told us that his shoes were special shoes that connected to the bike pedals. He shoes also had special holes on them to make him go faster and he has special covers on his shoes to cover his lasses. Next he showed us his helmet, witch he asked his uncool to paint for him because his uncool was a professional painter.

On his helmet it had a picture of the current flag and on the side it had a little picture of a kiwi on a bike in front of a silver furn with flames at the back of it. He told us that all his stuff were Aero Dynamic designed to make his go faster. His helmet was shaped funny but he told us that when he rides the wind goes right over his head and onto his back. Later he showed us his suit, it was really small but there was a picture of him racing in it so that was when we knew that it could fit him. But he said that if you crashed the suit would ripe easy.

He told us that when he was little he used to get heaps of scratches on his knees,ribs,elbows everywhere. Finally he showed us his bike, he said it's so light that he can lift it up with his pinkie finger. He told us that his bike weighed 7 kilograms and that his fastest speed on his bike was 110 kilometers per hour. In the beginning he told us if we got the question right we would get to try out his stuff.

There were two winners from Room 7, one from Room 9 and one from Room 8. Honey,Danny,Matiaki and Suwaley were the winners ad they were all from the senior block.
Honey was allowed to wear his helmet, Danny was allowed to wear his medal, Matiaki was allowed to try on his shoes and Suwaly was allowed to wear his spandex suit he was allowed to ride the bike, then Myron told Danny to hold the bike while Suwaly gets lifted onto the bike by Myron. After all that all the kids were allowed to ask him some questions about his career or life.

By Jayden.F