by Vaughan Hunt | Jul 6, 2018 | Board Chair's Blog
Due to a date clash with Trusthouse series we have decided to bring the date for the Feilding Festival forward one day to Saturday 13th October starting at 2.00pm.
This wouldn’t have been possible with out the help and support of one of our awesome sponsors, Derek McNabb and his family at Rosebowl Bakery in their fantastic new premises on Kimbolton Road.
We are all but confirmed all the nuts and bolts of it, but mark this on your calendar.
Feilding Festival of Cycling
Saturday 13th October 2.00pm start.
Registrations will be on the website next week along with all the details.
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by Vaughan Hunt | Jun 28, 2018 | News
The new website is live.
We will sort out any wrinkles and bring up additional content over the next few weeks.
If you see any problems or think something important is missing, please drop me a note. webmaster@bikemanawatu.co.nz
by Vaughan Hunt | Jun 22, 2018 | Notices
An important part of the successful operation of BikeManawatu is having volunteer assistance and this can be one of the biggest challenges our club faces when wanting to deliver an awesome racing programme.
If you live in the Manawatu area, please take our five question survey to tell us your thoughts on volunteering.
And thank you to everyone who responded to our last two Surveys. Our club is run for our members, so what you think and want is extremely important to us.
Survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/72D7YRQ
by Vaughan Hunt | Jun 22, 2018 | Board Chair's Blog
It’s been great to have the opportunity for our “older” members to go racing with Manawatu Schools Cycling.(BMSC)
This is the second year that BMSC has invited BM members to come along and have a go, and the feedback has been terrific.
We had an ITT at the challenging Colyton course a few weeks ago and last weekend there was a Team Time Trial at Kairanga. There was a number of seniors that formed teams and competed for, what was for some ,their first TTT . Plenty of banter before, during and after the event with smiles all round.
This Sunday there is another TTT at Rongotea with the last one a week later. These TTT’s are a core element in Schools cycling so this time of the year the kids get hammered with them…..Sign up on the Facebook post before Saturday 12.00 and next week there will be more details on the new website.
BM Chairman Mike Craine and his loyal group of parents and local school teachers run a fantastic series of events over terms 2 and 3 all building up to CNZ Schools Championships.
CNZ Schools run the North Island Championships around the Lake Karapiro area in the first weekend of the July school holidays, so in two weeks time students from years 7-13 migrate to the Cambridge district for this annual event.
Then New Zealand Championships are historically held in Horowhenua and Manawatu but, this year, they are being held in Canterbury.
Schools cycling is the breeding ground for all kids to grasp the enjoyment and benefits that cycling has to offer. Many parents have taken up cycling as a direct result of their offspring doing schools cycling and everlasting friendships have been formed…such is the great activity we participate in
