You may have noticed some longer rides being offered at Memorial Park on Sundays… Gary Buys has been kindly organising some longer, easy paced, flat rides as part of the normal Sunday recreational rides program. These are great for your preparation for the Taupo Cycle Challenge. All are welcome to join.
This weeks longer ride is a re-run of last weeks ride which was rained off, and is 113km out around the back of Ohakea.
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BM25D – Feilding, Rongotea, Linton
Distance: 113km Description: Vogel, Railway Rd, Te Ngaio, Campbels, Colyton, Makino Rd, Sandon, Mt Lees, Tangiomoana Rd, Campion Rd, Rongotea, Glen Oroua, Opiki, Linton Home |
Bike Manawatu is excited about the calendar that has been set and is available on the Website.
Between now and Christmas there are 17 Road Race events for you to try your hand (and legs) at.
The first Road Race is Sunday 19th at Akers Road, run with BMSC, flat track, catering for all ages and Genders. More details with Pre registration on the website and Facebook next week. September brings us to a new 10km course at Taonui, Traffic Management plans are being submitted and will be published as soon as we have clearance.
Multiple laps depending on grades for all of our Road courses, with grades nominated by yourself, based on Average speed.
October sees us back at Kairanga for a quick fire ITT series on Wednesday nights as well as the Feilding Festival and Race 4 at Halcombe.
November welcomes back the Criterium series on Tuesday nights at Manfeild and Race 5 at Cheltenham.
December winds up with Races 6 and 7 at Pahiatua and Pohangina. Our races start off on Flat courses and work into the more challenging as the season rolls on.
Track racing starts with Bike fits and orientation in October.
There are multiple have a go days where you can ride your road bike in timed events to get the hang of velodrome racing.
A reinvigorated Track team has a great calendar pencilled in and we are looking forward to a great summer of track racing.
With the Masters games at Whanganui early in 2019 it’s a great opportunity to race Road and Track against people of your own ages and abilities. Catering for everyone.
I’ve had a few comments about us banging on about racing…Well, guilty as charged.
We are here to cater for everyone. For every person that just wants to be left to ride socially there may be 2 people asking us when the race calendar is going to be out.
It’s all about inclusion and comradery
Photographic evidence.
BM are always getting comments about group rides, most of them positive from the participants, some negative from other road users.
I was sent this photo from a mate of mine following a group down Campbells line.
Here’s the deal, At first glance I thought, Holy S… that doesn’t look good. I could recognise just about everyone in shot.
But having a closer look everyone is riding absolutely fine. There seems there are 2 riders rolling back from their turn at the front and everyone
else is 2 abreast.
My point is this, most of the time it looks worse than it is. This however is how we are judged…we are viewed not from directly behind but on an angle, so we appear to be riding 3 or 4 wide.
Food for thought everyone, think about how we are seen, not how we think we look.
Ride safe, Ride hard
BMSC – Road Race Colyton Out & Back + Spur
BikeManawatu Sunday Recreational Ride
Wednesday Recreational Ride
Sport Manawatu – Regional Sports Conference
R&T Regional Commissaires Course
BMSC -Group Ride – Memorial Park
BikeManawatu Sunday Recreational Ride
WCNI AGM – Whanganui Velodrome
Wednesday Recreational Ride
BM Race 1 – Akers Rd 9am
BikeManawatu Sunday Recreational Ride
Wednesday Recreational Ride
It all comes down to 60 minutes
It’s a moment for you all to grab your cowbells, stock up on fries and Roosters beer and/ or ginger beer, and get along to EIT to scream you lungs out, for this weekend the Cyclocross National Championships descends on the Hawkes Bay. Don’t miss out on being part of our own little piece of history, plus you can still ride the fun events before the hitters get underway. So, enter online right now, it’s the same $10 cash only you always pay for the Bay Ford Cyclocross series. Not sure if you can make it, enter anyway, and if you can’t come along no stress you only pay on the day.
Race Weekend Schedule
Saturday 21st July:
12-5pm: The course is open for training.
Sunday 22nd July:
8:00am: Registration from 8:00am till 8:50am.
9:00am: Balance bikes parent and child fun ride. Event fee, free.
9:10am: Whittakers Chocolates kids 7 years and under. (Five minutes). Event fee, gold coin donation.
9:20am: Supervision Sports Future Stars Kids 10 and under. (Ten minutes). Event fee, gold coin donation.
9:35am: CX30 all comers event (30 minutes) Event fee, $15 ($10 for Hawkes Bay Series competitors)
10:15am: Masters men 2+ and all masters women (30 minutes) Event fee, $45.
11:15am: Women Elite, Junior men and Junior women (45 minutes) Event fee, $45.
12:30pm: Men Elite and Masters men 1 (60 minutes) Event fee, $45.
Roosters Brewery prize giving at the conclusion of the events.
Get down and dirty this weekend
The team at CXHB
