by Tim Lloyd | May 17, 2025 | Kairanga ITT Results, News
Solid turn out to the Kairanga ITT on Mothers day. There was a 24 km option available which was contested by 4 riders with Jaro setting the bench mark of 36.29.
32 riders tackled the 12km out and back with Winston Briggs fastest on the day with a 16.49. The easterly breeze catching a few riders out on the way home.
Great to see so many families turning up and competing or volunteering, cementing the fact that cycling is a sport for all ages.
Fantastic news came from Manawatu District Council with our successful application for funding to support our Traffic Management application costs.
Every plan we submit has a price tag for processing and now , with the successful funding application done by Janina, we can now return to the $10 entry fee for all adults.
Every club is always finding ways to navigate the financial obstacles and Bums on seats as well as higher memberships are critical.
Taonui Loops on Sunday, weather is looking ok at this stage. Enter if you are available and if the race is cancelled due to weather the fee is carried over, unfortunately the TMP application is still absorbed.
Manfeild 6 hour the week after. This time next week we will be praying for fine weather
Tim
by Tim Lloyd | May 9, 2025 | News
Great start to the reboot of the cycling calendar last Sunday May 4th with a flat graded Road race at Glen Oroua. 4 grades with Club and schools riders joining up to make for some great racing. This year we are implementing a mentor system to support our junior riders as the learn their trade in cycling, and this will show benefits with skill and safety as they continue in the sport.
This Sunday we have the Mother’s Day ITT starting at a later time of 11.00 at Kairanga. Time to treat our mums and still have a competitive outing before Lunch. Number pick up and bathrooms are at the school and a rolling briefing will be at the start line opposite the Horizons yard. Self seeding with faster riders going last.
There a 24 km option available and they will start from 10.45.
Weather is looking great for Sunday. Enter on webscorer with links on our Facebook page
Tim, on behalf of the BM Board
by Tim Lloyd | Feb 17, 2024 | News
Hope 2024 has started well for everyone.
Following on from our Christmas break, Bike Manawatu and our sponsors are very excited to announce a racing calendar for the next couple of months. We are working with a skeleton crew, so it’s all hands on deck to supply our club with racing all through the year including school cycling events
Bike Manawatu events on various Thursday evenings and weekends before winter, in this school term.
Added in there are a couple of out of town events from other clubs and community groups that we, as a club, would encourage you to support
- ITT or 2 up Thursday 22nd Feb
- Destination Ride to Waitarere on Sunday 25th….everyone invited
- A1 Loops Road race Thursday Feb 29th.
- Hillclimb March 3rd – POSTPONED
- Bush Tour March 9th Various distances
- Glen Oroua Road Race March 14th
- Destination Ride #2 Saturday 16th March
- WCNI Road race and ITT – POSTPONED
- Taranaki Round the mountain Sunday April 7th.
- Rongotea April 13th
- Cyclocross April 28th
- Manfeild 6 Hour supporting Arohanui Hospice May 19th.
- Cloyton/Hiwinui 16h June
- Kairanga Time Trials – Team and ITT 30th June
All events are on the Website, Timed events with entry on Webscorer link.
Destination rides have a limit to numbers so please contact Tim for details.
These Destination rides are for all abilities, around 50-60kms with a tail vehicle and ride home.
by Tim Lloyd | Jun 10, 2023 | News
Before anything else, the Bike Manawatu community acknowledge the passing of John Lithgow earlier this week. Colin Anderson, Garry Buys and Chris James were kind enough to jot down a few words about John with his family’s blessing which Vaughan has published. He will be greatly missed.
So we’ve had a bit of a break with racing. A lot was due to a cluttered calendar and not being able to get dates settled. We also had a changing of the guard in our own admin, schools cycling to get underway, and the very successful BM, Hospice 6 hour.
The board has been working on Sub committees to spread the workload across all admin areas. There’s areas of Finance, Events, Track, Cycling NZ liaising, Community, Schools, Sunday recreational rides, Future focus groups that all have their own needs and target points. A bit of a rethink with our courses for racing, what is relevant racing for our members, and also rides that the club can put on that are not racing. More of that to come.
We are joining in with Schools cycling on June 25 for a Team Time Trial. Schools always have a push at TTT’s at this time of the year and it feeds us into a trend of what racing is coming up later in the year both locally and other series close to us. North Island series is team based this year with the time based on the 4th rider across the line. We will reach out to our neighbouring clubs, WCNI and others, to reignite a club series. All this needs buy in from riders and volunteers to work.
We’ll have more information for you next Friday. In the meantime get your Teams together, in whatever grade you feel, stand by for details on the TTT and other racing coming up.
by Tim Lloyd | Apr 22, 2023 | News
Last weekend Bike Manawatu was well represented at the Age Group Road Nationals with 7 riders making the journey to Timaru. 3 of those riders stood on the podium during the weekend with Colin Anderson, Glenn Kirk and Filip Martin taking 3rd, 3rd and 2nd respectively in the ITT and then Colin backing it up with a 2nd in the Road race later in the weekend.
AGRN’s are always tough, it’s the next level up from Club and Centre races. Chris Hansen finished 5th in Masters 2 Road race with the same time as P2, just short of the line in a photo finish. Same went for Filip Martin who again finished 5th in the Road race, 2 seconds of podium.
Great efforts by Ben Murphy who had a tough weekend but would have learnt a lot as he continues to climb the ladder in under 17’s. Glenn kirk, Mike Thompson and Toshi featured well in their grades.
Special thanks to Toshi for being Team Manager for the weekend and for Toshi and Colin to stay back and volunteer on Sunday shows total dedication to the sport.
As previously mentioned before, and more so after the event, there’s plenty of comment about Cycling South Canterbury holding the event for the second time in 5 years with little support from Cycling New Zealand. It appears all clubs are having their battles with Road availability, Traffic management, Volunteer bases etc.
At BM we too have challenges ahead. With Keryn leaving to continue her career path we have vacancies with areas of our admin that will need to be spread amongst ourselves. There is a rolling over in Board responsibilities, a nurturing alliance with Manawatu Schools cycling and a need/requirement for fresh ideas to have other clubs join us in our racing on newer courses.
With that in mind it leads me to next Friday’s AGM. Please come along and sit in on our AGM. After that has been completed we’ll open the floor up for feedback and ideas on a Sub Committee model that Jonathon Hannon and the board has been working on.
Groups identified are (Briefly),… Events, Club Racing, Track and WCNI, Schools, Development and Hub, Finance and funding.
Come along to Marist clubrooms and join us in making BM a long term option for racing of all ages in our community and region..
Tim
