by Bike Manawatu | May 27, 2022 | Notices
Up & Coming Events for week ending 27th May 2022
Please note Bike Manawatu requires all riders wishing to attend any of our road races or attend our track season to pre register accordingly – No late entries on the day will be accepted
2022 Memberships & Cycling NZ licences – Renew your Membership today
Sunday 29th May 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Rongotea ITT* Bike Manawatu riders are invited to join in this ITT or TTT please click here to register
Sunday 12th June 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Milson Crit*
Friday 10th June 2022
Bike Manawatu AGM & Road, Track & Special Awards Prizegiving – 6pm – Marist Club Rooms – If you want to help make a difference in the future of our club please come along and have a say.
For catering purposes please click this link to rsvp
Sunday 19th June 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Kairanga ITT*
Sunday 29th June 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Colyton Hiwinui Road Race*
Saturday 9th July 2022
North Island Secondary Schools Cycling Championships
Sunday 10th July 2022
North Island Secondary Schools Cycling Championships
Sunday 17th July 2022
Sutton Cup – Halcombe
Sunday 31st July 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Bone Collector – Ashhurst*
Sunday 7th August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Colyton Out & Back Road Race*
Sunday 14th August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs Kairanga ITT*
Saturday 20th August
Drome Masters – Cambridge
Sunday 21st August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Halcombe Road Race*
Drome Masters – Cambridge
Sunday 28th August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Manfeild Points Race*
Sunday 11th September 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Rongotea TTT*
Sunday 18th September 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Nationals RR Course*
Sunday 25th September 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Manfeild Points*
Saturday 29th October 2022
Novice Tour of Manawatu
Sunday 30th October 2022
Novice Tour of Manawatu
- Please note Manawatu Schools Cycling calendar may be subject to change – please keep an eye on the MSC Facebook Group page and with your schools cycling coordinators
If any MSC races are open to Bike Manawatu riders we will open a Webscorer registration accordingly.
by Bike Manawatu | May 20, 2022 | Notices
Up & Coming Events for week ending 20th May 2022
Please note Bike Manawatu requires all riders wishing to attend any of our road races or attend our track season to pre register accordingly – No late entries on the day will be accepted
2022 Memberships & Cycling NZ licences – Renew your Membership today
Sunday 22nd May 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Colyton Out and Back*
Sunday 29th May 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Rongotea ITT*
Sunday 12th June 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Milson Crit*
Friday 10th June 2022
Bike Manawatu AGM & Road, Track & Special Awards Prizegiving – 6pm – Marist Club Rooms – If you want to help make a difference in the future of our club please come along and have a say.
For catering purposes please click this link to rsvp
Sunday 19th June 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Kairanga ITT*
Sunday 29th June 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Colyton Hiwinui Road Race*
Saturday 9th July 2022
North Island Secondary Schools Cycling Championships
Sunday 10th July 2022
North Island Secondary Schools Cycling Championships
Sunday 17th July 2022
Sutton Cup – Halcombe
Sunday 31st July 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Bone Collector – Ashhurst*
Sunday 7th August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Colyton Out & Back Road Race*
Sunday 14th August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs Kairanga ITT*
Saturday 20th August
Drome Masters – Cambridge
Sunday 21st August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Halcombe Road Race*
Drome Masters – Cambridge
Sunday 28th August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Manfeild Points Race*
Sunday 11th September 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Rongotea TTT*
Sunday 18th September 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Nationals RR Course*
Sunday 25th September 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Manfeild Points*
Saturday 29th October 2022
Novice Tour of Manawatu
Sunday 30th October 2022
Novice Tour of Manawatu
- Please note Manawatu Schools Cycling calendar may be subject to change – please keep an eye on the MSC Facebook Group page and with your schools cycling coordinators
If any MSC races are open to Bike Manawatu riders we will open a Webscorer registration accordingly.
by Bike Manawatu | May 20, 2022 | Notices
Greetings Members & Supporters
On behalf of the Bike Manawatu board we wish to invite you all to our Annual General Meeting & Road & Track Prizegiving. Details are as follows:
Date: Friday 10th June 2022
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Marist Sports Club, 19 Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Please note our AGM quorum is 25, it would be great to see you all there.
Please RSVP to help assist us for catering purposes here
We also invite members to voice their opinion during our General Business on what they enjoy, would like to see change, how we could improve etc
Providing solutions for any problems is always a bonus.
We look forward to seeing you there
by Bike Manawatu | May 13, 2022 | News, Notices
Up & Coming Events for week ending 13th May 2022
Please note Bike Manawatu requires all riders wishing to attend any of our road races or attend our track season to pre register accordingly – No late entries on the day will be accepted
2022 Memberships & Cycling NZ licences – Renew your Membership today
Sunday 15th May 2022
Open Interclub Graded Road Race – Open to riders of all clubs – Halcombe/Standway course – Enter Here
In lieu of our cancelled Manfeild 6 Hour event 
We still wanted to offer our riders a great event so here we are – gather your mates from your local club and come along for a great race.
Sunday 22nd May 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Colyton Out and Back*
Sunday 29th May 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Rongotea ITT*
Sunday 12th June 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Milson Crit*
Friday 10th June 2022
Bike Manawatu AGM & Road, Track & Special Awards Prizegiving – 6pm – Marist Club Rooms – If you want to help make a difference in the future of our club please come along and have a say.
Please be aware of the new date
Sunday 19th June 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Kairanga ITT*
Sunday 29th June 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Colyton Hiwinui Road Race*
Saturday 9th July 2022
North Island Secondary Schools Cycling Championships
Sunday 10th July 2022
North Island Secondary Schools Cycling Championships
Sunday 17th July 2022
Sutton Cup – Halcombe
Sunday 31st July 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Bone Collector – Ashhurst*
Sunday 7th August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling – Colyton Out & Back Road Race*
Sunday 14th August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs Kairanga ITT*
Saturday 20th August
Drome Masters – Cambridge
Sunday 21st August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Halcombe Road Race*
Drome Masters – Cambridge
Sunday 28th August 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Manfeild Points Race*
Sunday 11th September 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Rongotea TTT*
Sunday 18th September 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Nationals RR Course*
Sunday 25th September 2022
Manawatu Schools Cycling Champs – Manfeild Points*
Saturday 29th October 2022
Novice Tour of Manawatu
Sunday 30th October 2022
Novice Tour of Manawatu
- Please note Manawatu Schools Cycling calendar may be subject to change – please keep an eye on the MSC Facebook Group page and with your schools cycling coordinators
If any MSC races are open to Bike Manawatu riders we will open a Webscorer registration accordingly.
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. 
With low registrations to date and the uncertainty of IF they will pick up, the risk has unfortunately outweighed the reward.
We acknowledge that this announcement will disappoint many riders who were looking forward to the event and extend our thanks to those of you who registered early.
Those who had paid and entered will receive a full refund.
Please send through your Name (& Team name if registered as a team) along with your bank details and we will see you right.
Thank you and we hope to see you at next years event.
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
