by Bike Manawatu | Mar 22, 2026 | News, Road Results
Thank you to everyone who came out to Glen Oroua for today’s road race, it was another stunning morning for riding. Massive thanks to our volunteers: Jo Coxon for running the Timing, John from Wellington on the Stop/Go paddle on the bridge, Tim Lloyd for traffic management, and Marty Baker for Sag Wagon.
It was fantastic that Brendan Bateup from Wellington RCC and Brendan Clarke from Kapiti travelled up for our event. We also applaud all the incredible families who took the opportunity and rode with their young kids, and Lizzie and Hannah Peel for looking after and encouraging other riders.
Results https://www.webscorer.com/race?pid=1&raceid=425275
Sealed Handicap results will be published Monday evening!!!
Next up are our second Junior Cycling Skills session and the Woolworths Cup!
Sun 29th March at 4pm – Junior Cycling Skills #2
Please pre-register here: https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=423062
Tue 31st Mar at 6pm – Woolworths Cup (Handicap)
Back in 1968 this cup was won by F. Martley on a course from Tremaine Ave to Rongotea. The event has since been moved to Feilding onto a 32.2km course starting on Makino Rd.
Please pre-register here: https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=424944
by Bike Manawatu | Mar 10, 2026 | Kairanga ITT Results, News, Results
Great to see some old and new faces at tonight’s Kairanga time trial, and some teams getting out there as well. Thanks to Sam Richardson for running the timing, to Tim Lloyd for course setup, and to Edward Dabinett, Phil Riley and Duncan Palmer for volunteering. This event could not have been run without you, thank you!
Results: https://www.webscorer.com/race?raceid=423906
Congratulations to Filip Martin who managed to lower his own U17 course record by 1 sec! With a time of 16:10 Filip was the fastest on the course today.
Next up is our first Junior Cycling Skills session at Memorial Park, taking place this Sunday 15th March from 1-3pm. Participants please register here: https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=423061
This session is a great opportunity for young riders to build confidence, develop their cycling skills, and learn more about the sport in a fun and supportive environment. Please spread the word and encourage any young cyclists who might be interested to come along.
This Saturday 14th March is the popular Bush Cycle Tour, and it’s not too late to enter: https://www.facebook.com/events/1595276311457060
by Bike Manawatu | Feb 11, 2026 | Kairanga ITT Results, News
It was a beautiful summer evening yesterday for the 17 riders and our amazing volunteers at Kairanga.
Firstly, a huge THANK YOU to our volunteers Sam and Laura Richardson for running the timing, Tim Lloyd for traffic management, and Alastair Cadzow, David Peel and Rachel O’Dea!
Congratulations to Liam O’Dea and Rory Hutchinson on breaking the following course records:
Liam took almost 20sec off the previous record for 14 year old boys set by Robert Stannard in 2012. Liam’s time was a blistering 17:37.6!
Rory is now the course record holder for 10 year old boys with a fantastic time of just 24:42!
It was great to see riders of all ages turn up last night. Special mention also to George Skinner who was fastest overall, Aylish Underwood who was flying on the 24km course, and new rider Jakob Abernethy who did amazing on the long course as well.
Another opportunity to race on the 12km Kairanga TT course will come up on 10th March! Mark your calendars
by Bike Manawatu | Nov 19, 2025 | News, Road Results
It was a great night for yesterday’s Manfeild Circuit Race! Thank you to Sam Richardson for running the timing, and many others for offering to help out.
The Handicap race was at hot pace! Gaps were worked out on 40,36 and 32 kph average over the three grades. However, it turns out 45, 42 and 37 is the new normal. The great thing is we now have lap times and data to get actual performance data for our individual riders. Great to see Toshi and Ash rocking up, with Ash smashing lots of personal bests. It was also fantastic to see the mentoring happening through the bunches.
Results can be found HERE
We are looking forward to the second Criterium at the CET Arena next Thursday 27th November. Registrations are now open: https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=413794
by Bike Manawatu | Nov 14, 2025 | News, Road Results
It was a fantastic afternoon for our first Criterium event at the CET Arena yesterday, with 39 riders across the 4 events. We had a lot of positive feedback and are going to run a second criterium in a couple of week’s time, on Thursday 27th November, mark your calendars. Registrations will open shortly.
A shout-out to our volunteers Andy and Sam Richardson, Jo Coxon, Jonathon Hannon and Tim Lloyd, and to all those riders who have not participated in our events before and gave the criterium a go. We hope to see you again at our upcoming events.
Unfortunately the brief rain interfered with the Open Men’s race. In the future we may change the course layout depending on weather conditions. We are also going to split the Men’s event into two separate races, A grade and B grade, as long as registration numbers allow.
Next up, on Tuesday 18th November is the Manfeild Circuit Race. This will be run as a Handicap race. Please pre-register here, https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=409918, and remember to bring your race number if you have been issued one.
by Bike Manawatu | Nov 5, 2025 | News, Road Results
Beautiful evening for racing last night! It was nice to see Toshi and Tyler return to racing in the B grade. Big shout out to our volunteers Sam and Laura Richardson, Helen Mumby and Tim Lloyd!
Results can be found HERE
Next up are a couple of very exciting events:
A new Criterium event at the CET Arena on Thursday 13th November: https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=410960
Manfeild Circuit Race on Tuesday 18th November: https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=409918
Entries for both events are open and we encourage you to enter early to help us with the planning. Due to the low numbers of entries at our events it has become very difficult to run quality graded races. Therefore, the Manfeild Circuit race will be a Handicap Race, and both the Criterium and Manfeild events will see a separate Women/Girls Only category.
