by KateS | Nov 20, 2015 | Track Cycling
Road Bikes on Track will be run on Monday nights from 6:00pm from this coming Monday night (23rd Nov).
If the weather looks a bit suspect and we need to cancel, a post will be put on the ‘Bike Manawatu track nights’ facebook group.
If you have any questions regarding raod bikes on track, please contact Greg Bryan ( gregory.bryan@agresearch.co.nz ) or Chris Croton ( chris.croton@ihug.co.nz ).
After Christmas the club championships for road bikes on track will be run. Watch the BikeManawatu website for the new year programme.
by KateS | Nov 16, 2015 | Track Cycling
The programme is out for the 1st WCNI Track Carnival for the 2015/16 season! BikeManawatu has some of the countries top track riders, proudly holding many current National, Oceania and 3 World Championship titles. Come test yourself in the Manawatu and be into win some cash and spot prizes! For more information click here.
Women can ride the B grade events 3, 12, 15, 16. Masters can ride B grade events 8, 12, 15, 16. Masters women can choose to ride with the masters or women.
All riders must report to registration between 10:45-11:45am. Our usual/local track riders are to bring their own number, tick off their name and pay $5.00 cash. Outside riders will need to register, sign the wavier form, recieve a number for the day and pay $5.00 cash.
by KateS | Nov 16, 2015 | Track Cycling
Venue: Johnston Park Feilding
TRACK BIKES: Warm up 5:30pm, First Race 6:00pm Sharp
EVENTS
- U15 POINTS (2 bunches) – 5 laps, whistle 4 & 3 to go and bell. Points 5, 3, 2, 1.
- U17 POINTS RACE – 5 laps, free lap and whistle 5, 4, 3 and bell.
- Open women & Masters HANDICAP – 5 laps
- A grade POINTS – 6 laps (sprints as for U17 race)
- U15 TEAM PURSUITS – 3 teams, 4 person teams
- All other grades HANDICAP’S – 2 laps
- Long HANDICAP’S
- U15 – 7 laps
- U17 – 8 laps
- Masters, women, men – 12 laps
TRACK OFFICALS: Appointed on night
REMEMBER- Track racing Sunday 22nd November
STARTS 11:30am
WARM UP 11:00am
by KateS | Nov 14, 2015 | Track Cycling
It looks likely by the weather forecast for Sunday – racing may be called off.
Please watch the Bike Manawatu Track Nights Facebook group for information on Sunday if weather is doubtful.
Great to see a great number of riders last Sunday and there was great racing witnessed. Mike Simpson picked Michael Richmond as the McDonalds Feilding and Taihape rider of the day, for his great win from scratch in the final under 15 8 lap handicap. He got great help from his co-maker Kyle Hoskin who also gave his best performance to date to finish a well deserved third. For this great effort we will award Kyle a sports bag thanks to ASB (see Kate when she is next at track and she will get it for you Kyle).
It was good to see the uptake of the young riders getting straps fitted onto their pedals. Thanks to Liam Brown for fitting the straps – well done! There is another 8 sets of straps available for free fitting.
Please observe the warm up rules better! All slow warm ups above the blue line and fast warming up below the yellow line. It was getting slightly chaotic last week and this is when incidents can happen very quickly!
If racing is cancelled on Sunday we will run a shortened meeting on Tuesday 17th November at 6pm start- watch this space.
Also due to BikeManawatu social get together and prizegiving at 3pm Sunday 22nd November. Track racing will commence at 11:30am on that day.
by KateS | Nov 10, 2015 | Track Cycling
BikeManawatu is hosting the first OPEN West Coast North Island track carnival, and are making sure it is one not to be missed!
With the opportunity to race against, watch and meet Michaela Drummond – current Junior World Team Pursuit world champion and world record holder, and Campbell Stewart – Current Junior World Omnium and Scratch race champion, on their home track, the one and only Johnston Park Feilding Velodrome.
To make this carnival even more worth your while, thanks to our sponsors we have a lot of prize money to give away across all grades and ages. Including at least $100.00 to the Feilding Wheel race winner.
This open carnival is offered to all centres with races for U15’s, U17’s, Women, Masters, A and B grades (dependant on numbers). Everyone must hold a Cycling NZ licence with the exception to U15 riders. We encouraage riders to ride in 2016 licence categories, to help WCNI selectors as they start to think about the 2016 track nationals.
All riders must report to registration at the track between 10:45 and 11:45am and pay $5.00 (cash only) each. BikeManawatu members will use their usual race number (please remember this), whilst others will be alloacted a number that must be returned at the end of the meet.
More information (including the programme) will be posted on the BikeMananwatu website under ‘track cycling’ and on the Bike Manawatu track nights Facebook page leading up to the event. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Kate Stewart, k8.stewart@hotmail.com or 0278139922.
