Manfeild 6 Hour Cycle Challenge 2022 Cancelled

by Bike Manawatu | Apr 29, 2022 | Notices

On behalf of Bike Manawatu and our Manfeild 6 Hour organising committee we regret to inform you that we have made the sad decision to cancel this years event.

For those of you still keen to ride – We aim to run a Graded Road Race on our Halcombe Stanway circuit on this date so we can continue to do what we enjoy – Cycle

April 2022 Update

by Tim Lloyd | Apr 29, 2022 | Notices

The Great

It’s been a pretty full on start to the year.
Sliding out from the shadows of covid restrictions we were able to run a very successful mid week twilight road race series.
This tied in with an ITT series and Woolworths handicap race which was a cracker.
All these races are designed to ready our riders for the WCNI ITT and Road races which Bike Manawatu were proud to host again this year.
This in turn gave a stepping stone for 13 of our riders to head to Hokitika for the Age Group Road Nationals held on Anzac weekend.
A huge shout out to all of our riders who made the Journey, you did yourselves and the club proud. Thanks also to Cheryl Murphy on being our manager for the weekend.

With the Age group racing out of the way we now look forward to Interclub Graded races.
Whilst staying loyal and true to our WCNI history, we are reaching out to other clubs in the lower north island (and further afield) to join our interclub racing.
Over the last few months we have had communications from Hawkes Bay, Wellington, PNP etc on expanding our catchments.
Bike Manawatu will always stay a WCNI club, but all clubs see the importance of running regional invitational graded events. This is a great step forward for Road cycling (Click here to register)

Track this year has been highlighted as a year of the Masters.
There’s been a huge increase in participation of the older riders which encourages the steady increase and improvement of the Juniors.
Plans are in place for groups, junior and senior, to head to Cambridge for training and racing over the winter/spring months.

The board are going through lists of riders and volunteers for merit awards for 2021 at our prizegiving.
For road awards it’s on a calendar year so we intend having a Road Function in December 2022 to award this years prizes.
Track merit awards are decided at the end of the track racing season, March/April
There’s been a postponement of dates with a crammed schedule of the AGM and prizegiving….see the website.

The Average

It was an incredibly hard decision to cancel the Manfeild 6 hour this year.
Declining numbers of school riders, nervous times around Covid which is still in our community, crammed schedules are all factors that played a part.
In the end the decision was made with the prospect of low numbers, a historically challenging day weather wise, a small field was going to make an event to forget.
With riders out there potentially not being able to get into a working peloton all day it would not make it an enjoyable day out.
We believe the event still has a very important place in our calendar and we will revisit it in 2023.

Over February and March our club was part of a process asked of us by CNZ.
A remit was presented to take the voting power away from Centres (WCNI, BOP etc) and give the vote to the clubs.
BM went with the status quo, in our minds a change would further dilute the importance of WCNI and other centres.
We were out voted and so now CNZ will get feedback from all the clubs individually.
Decision made, however we feel Centres still and always has been an important stepping stone for riders and even more so for clubs to operate efficiently.
As mentioned before, BM will always hold on to and persevere with our place in WCNI.

The Scary

Last Saturday one of our riders was involved with a incident involving a car, following a difference of opinion with the vehicles driver.
Sadly we see this all the time, and we must remember that we need to be seen, and how we are seen.
There is a percentage to the population that do not care about other human beings, their property, or the implications.
If, at any time on any ride, someone hurls abuse to you ….please just throw an apologetic wave and smile. It’s just not worth it.

Stay safe,
Tim

The Ramblers Hawkes Bay Tour 2022

by Bike Manawatu | Apr 27, 2022 | Notices

Hawkes Bay Tour 2022

On behalf of our friends over at Ramblers Cycling Club please find below information about their up and coming tour.
Saturday 4th – Sunday 5th June 2022 at Ohiti Rd (self-contained campers are welcome)

Saturday 4 June 2022
Stage 1 9am – 58 km road race – Starting Ohiti Road Hastings
Stage 2 1-00 pm – 28km to 84 km road race – Starting Ohiti Road Hastings

Sunday 5 June 2022
Stage 3 9.30 am – 63 km road race – Starting Ohiti Road Hastings (more…)

Open Interclub Road Race 15.05.2022

by Bike Manawatu | Apr 27, 2022 | Notices

OPEN Interclub Road Race

You may have seen that we have recently had to make the tough decision to cancel our Manfeild 6 Hour Cycle Challenge.

We had this date all lined up for a great endurance event and although we have had to cancel we still want to be able to put on a great event for cyclists to enjoy so we thought why not have an Open Interclub Road Race instead!
Gather your mates from your local club and come along for a great race.

Here it is:

Sunday 15th May 2022

Reg 10.15am Briefing 10.45am First Grade off at 11am

Graded Road Race – 20.15km circuit, 1-3 Laps depending on grade
Click here to register

Course Information

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Save The Date – Bike Manawatu AGM & Prizegiving – Friday 10th June 2022

by Bike Manawatu | Apr 21, 2022 | Notices

SAVE THE DATE

2022 Bike Manawatu AGM – NEW DATE
Date: Friday 10th June 2022
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Marist Sports Club, 19 Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Due to being an extremely busy time of year, our Bike Manawatu board have decided to move our AGM to Friday 19th June 2022 and we will incorporate our Prizegiving at the same time directly after AGM.
We have some important items on our agenda and wish to invite all members to come have their same about the future of our club / constitution etc.
More information include Agenda, Financials and any remits that may be received will be added to our website and distributed to our members in the coming weeks.