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Garry Buys’s bike’s been stolen

Garry Buys’s bike’s been stolen

by | Aug 31, 2013 | Archive(Notices)

Can you help Gary find his bike?  It was stolen today (Sat 31-Aug) from Barista Cafe.  It means a lot to him!  It’s the only red Dura-Ace Vincolo in town.

Garry's Bike
Gary’s phone number is 0212363070, or call him at work 3567987

Bike features:

Red Vincolo

Dura-Ace 7800 kit

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New BikeManawatu Website Up

by | Aug 31, 2013 | Webmaster's Blog

Hi All

I have transitioned to the new layout for BikeManawatu.

While it’s mostly all working there are a few “teething troubles”, which I’ll sort out over the next little while.

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback.

Why did we change?  Well the version of the tools the website is built on (Joomla) had become quite out of date and was no longer supported for security patches.  So a complete refresh was the best approach to keeping current and secure.

There was an unexpected disruption to the site during the swap over, but InspireNet have fixed that and all is go.

The content should be identical to the old site, although the Club Ride Calendar was tricky to migrate and there may be some old events that have now disappeared.

Comments and feedback welcome to webmaster@bikemanawatu.co.nz

Vaughan

BikeManawatu & Central Hawkes Bay Interclub race

by | Aug 30, 2013 | Event Reports

A typical windy winter’s day last Saturday over at Pahiatua saw nearly 40 riders turn out for the Bike Manawatu/Central Hawkes Bay Interclub race. A sealed handicap meant that it was a mass start, and as usual, the right to left wind down the main road created carnage right from the word go.

A split quickly developed where about a dozen of the more experienced and stronger riders lapped out whilst the rest were left in a string down the road. A small group of three, including the form riders of Nate Levin, national champ Alex West, Robert Stannard, and Neil Martin then attacked off the front of that group to quickly create an 80m lead. Steve Stannard bridged just before the gap got too big, but paid for that effort on the first hill, where he was dropped going over the top. With Nate paying the price of some hard training, Robert, Neil and Alex pulled away.

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