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WEST COAST NORTH ISLAND CENTRE CHAMPIONSHIPS TEAMS TIME TRIAL

by | Jul 14, 2014 | Archive(News)

The WCNI TTT event has been cancelled however it will be held as a club event.

THE INFORMATION BELOW HAS CHANGED . PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY

 

Rongotea , Saturday 2nd August 2014

 

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Open Men: 40 km

Open Women: 25 km

Under 19 men :25km

Under 17s: 16 km

Under 15s  16km

 

First Teams Starting: 11.00 am sharp

All teams are to have a minimum of 4 riders who are to be members of the club.

The team time will be determined by the third rider to cross the finish line.

Order of Start:

Under 15s

Under 17s

Women

Men

Entry Fees:

adults $5 per person

School Children $2 per person

 

 

 

Confirmed teams are as follows

Under 15 Boys 16km Dineth Rajapaske Adam Martin   Harrison Kinghorn
Under 15 Girls 16km Kelly  Levin Samara Fenn Peita Ransom Anna Robson
Under 15 Boys 2  16km Fergus Washington-Smith Max Taylor Thomas Stannard  
under 17 boys 16km Mitchell Kinghorn   Andrew Bamford  
under 17 boys 16km Campbell Stewart Robert Stannard Carne Groube Chris Denholm
under 17 boys 16km Andrew McKenzie David  Martin Fergus Allan Jacob Seivwright
Under 19 men 25km Hayden Washington-Smith Alex West Nate Levin Josh Kendall
Open Men  40km Steve Stannard Chris Sanson Neville Weir  
Open men 2  40km Toshi Yamauchi Barry Gilliland Marcel Hollenstein Winston Briggs
Open men 3 40km Mike Craine Chris Pinkney Tom Pirie Ben Holleron
           

 

 

 

 

 

Waiver must be signed on uplifting your number

 

 

INFORMATION / RACE RULES

 

 

VENUE:

 

The TTT will be held at RONGOTEA which is approximately 20km West of Palmerston North. The easiest way to get to RONGOTEA from Palmerston North is to proceed up SH3 towards Whanganui, turn left at Awahuri (Greens Rd). Turn right at T Junction (Kopane School) into RONGOTEA Rd.

 

 

 

COURSE:

 

The course is an out and back format. Open Men’s has two turns whilst the Open Women’s and U15’s and U17’s have only one.

 

 

  • Teams are to consist of four riders and time will be taken on the third rider to cross the finish line.

 

  • Club colours must be worn.

 

  • Bike NZ Road & Track racing rules will apply

 

 

  • Three Minute intervals between teams.

 

  • If being overtaken by another team, the team being overtaken must pull to the left of the road and allow the other team to pass.

 

  • Normal overtaking rules apply (2m lateral clearance and 25m between teams on the road).

 

  • No drafting is allowed between teams.

 

  • Teams being overtaken within 100m of any turn around point are to allow the overtaking team right of way during the turn.  

 

  • If you puncture you are required to join the team again from the rear only. This cannot be interpreted any other way than that you must chase down your team to rejoin it. You are not permitted to wait until they return past your location to rejoin them. Any rider who re-joins their team by any other method t

 

 

Current standing Records for Teams Time Trial on the Rongotea course:

 

Under 17 Boys        16ks    Palmerston Nth Marist     23 minutes 54 seconds    2007

 

Under 17 Girls        16ks    Levin                                 29 minutes 04 seconds    2006

 

 

Paul van Velthooven – Resigned to the fact I should resign

by | Jul 13, 2014 | Archive(News)

Fellow club members,

For the meantime my Bike Manawatu journey must come to an end.

I have developed a slow leak and the peloton is moving too quick to stay on.

I hate being dropped but tomorrow is another day.

On advice at many levels, my energy needs to be conserved as I confront and beat my next challenge.

So it is with a heavy heart that I resign from the Board.

It is a heavy heart because there are still so many good things ahead for Bike Manawatu.

And the Board has been and will be integral in setting the strategies for our members going forward.

We are the most progressive club in the country and that will continue, of that I am convinced.

All the best for the future.

Regards

Paul van Velthooven

First race for the Season and registering for weekly updates on races

First race for the Season and registering for weekly updates on races

by | Jul 10, 2014 | Archive(News)

The first race for the season will be held this Saturday. It is an all comers (new riders welcome) time trial. So if you have done a time trial at Kairanga on Wednesday night last season but never done a club Saturday event this will be a great way for you to see what Saturday racing is all about.

The times set will also be used to help set grades for the rest of the season and select teams for the upcoming WCNI Team Time trials that will be held in Rongotea on Saturday 2nd August.

There is a short and a long course and at registration you will be asked which course you wish to do. pyke rd bainesse time trial

There is no entry fee this week so there should be nothing holding you back so come and give it a go. The course starts on the corner of  Pyke Rd and State Highway 56 at Rangiotu and carries on along Pyke Rd and on to Bainesse Rd and back to the start point. There is plenty of parking available.

If you want to receive an email each week reminding you what is on then click here and you will be added to the reminder list.

SIMON VAN VELTHOOVEN Wrapping up in Japan

by | Jul 9, 2014 | Archive(News)

Firstly I’ll apologise for my lack of updates the last few months as it’s been hectic as always and every time I planned to sit down and put pen to paper to finish it off something else becomes a priority.

Since the last update I have had some good battles and results in the Japanese Keirin League racing in the cities of Omiya, Chiba, and Maebashi. It was great travelling to these tracks with the German Stefan Botticher as he is a true East German where everything has to be absolutely perfect and to the point. Living in Japan and sharing a room with Stefan has definitely made me even more OCD, which I hope is a good thing, because to be the best you really do need to make sure you account for all those 1% gains.

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