Have you ridden the Club 12km Time Trial this season? Check out the link below as you may have set a record for the season or even broken or established a “All Time Record”.
You will see there are several age groups/categories we don’t have record’s for yet, so why not come and along on Wednesday night and try to set or break one!
For any errors or omission contactMegan
The rainy weather around the Manawatu and New Zealand at the moment requires patience for all road users. To cyclist who ride or race regularly and need to train this requires an even more patient approach. Road safety day and night in wet conditions is to be respected where unexpected road works or slips are encountered. Please continually share with other riders the safest roads to ride warring visible clothing and bike lights. Our sport requires us all to be conscious of safety at all times while share the roads
When; Friday 2nd of December
Where: Lonestar (on the Square)
Time; From 5.30pm
The last of this years “BM Happy Hours” will be a good time to come along and share some good membership hospitality and maybe dress up and go out for dinner afterwards for some. Our “Happy Hour” is normally the last Friday of the month but to cater for the Taupo Cycling Challenge riders we have put the “Happy Hour” back one week.
When; Sunday 11 December
Where; Hotel Coachman
Time; 3pm-6pm
This is a great social barbecue and drinks afternoon for all of our cycling friends followed by the Bike Manawatu prize giving to recognise our clubs successes over the year for a wide variety of schools and masters events locally, national and Internationally. We would love to see you join us.
If all Trophy winners from last year could please drop their Trophies back to Trophy Specialists 19/20 Taonui street Palmerston North please in preparation for this year’s prize giving.
Positive reports that Manawatu riders had a great weekend of racing resulted in two teams, Skoda and BikeBox Rentals profiting greatly from a gusty early break and staying in front for over 100km.
In the early eight man move two riders from team Skoda including Joel Yates who was recovering from his Tour of Southland, and two other local Bike Box Rentals riders Sam Gardner and Glenn Haden.
The groups lead got up to seven minutes when Carlos Lopez blistering attack in the hills would only see Joel Yates go with him. Joel timing his finishing sprint to perfection to claim the days victory over Carlos has catapulted him into the under 23 leaders jersey. Sam and Glenn finished a very respectable 3rd and 4th.Between the two teams they have had 8 Manawatu Riders on the podiums in total which is a huge result for the region.
A special mention to Bike Manawatu masters rider Wayne Butcher for 3rd place in the Te Wharau Hill Climb and all other local Bike Manawatu Riders who are performing well in this highly recognised calendar event.
It is a busy time of year for all Bike a Manawatu event organisers and volunteers. We have an amazing variety of events to cater for everyone that are run by select and very valued few doing a great job. Checkout our website for event updates and results as them come and go to keep yourself up with what’s happening. At the same time if you can roster yourself onto an event you would like to be involved in to help the club and the event organisers we would really appreciate your support. Go to secretary@bikemanawatu.co.nz or call Christine Christie on 0274422521 to help.
WCNI are asking for riders interested in riding Elite/U19 and/or AgeGroup national track championships for WCNI to express interest, so that the selectors know who they are keeping an eye out for.
WCNI Track nationals interest form can be viewed & downloaded HERE.
After following the above link you can download the word document by clicking on the download icon in the top right hand corner of the google document. Once downloaded you should be able to edit the document with your details and desired events, save it and email the document to Kim Andersen, kim.andersen@spark.co.nz
Track nationals and WCNI track event dates and locations (Feilding, Levin, Wanganui and WCNI Championships) can be found on our BikeManawatu Track Programme here.
If you are new to this whole track cycling scene and don’t really know what’s happening or what is required to get to track nationals feel free to talk to any of us more experienced trackies over at Feilding or for specific WCNI questions contact Kim Andersen.
