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Manfeild Circuit Race 18 November 2025
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....
Criterium CET Arena 13 November 2025
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...
Huge thanks to Mike Keenan
For all you riders who have ben out on Bike Manawatu Sunday rides, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to Mike for all the behind the scenes organising and route planning he has done on our behalf. Mike is handing over responsibility to Austin and Gary. Mike writes: The...
A1 Loops Graded Road Race 4 November 2025
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...
Trust House NI Team Series Race 2 (Alfredton) – 12 October 2025
Race 2 of the Trust House North Island Teams Series was a day that many riders wished they had stayed in bed. Weather conditions were terrible with high wind with rain showers. Palmfeild Motors / Bike Manawatu Cat 4 team fronted up with 5 brave riders, the race...
Kairanga Time Trial 7 October 2025
We commend the nine hardy riders who braved the wind and the rain at last night’s time trial at Kairanga!!! Highlights include Annemarie, Aylish and Andy pushing through 2 laps in tough conditions, and the fact that the majority of the field were female riders, with...
Trust House NI Team Series Race 1 (Alfredton) – 28 September 2025
The North Island Team Series kicked off over the weekend in Alfredton, with Bike Manawatu riders lining up across teams and categories. As is the usual for NIS races recently Cat 1 and 2 were combined to have a viable field of riders. Wheelworks fielded a strong team...
Sunday’s interclub ride
We received this lovely thanks form Kapiti Cycling club: Hi Mike Thanks once again for organising last Sunday's interclub ride. The Kapiti guys really enjoyed riding the route, particularly the rolling Valley Road section after the climb. We all agreed that section...
Rongotea North-Eastern Time Trial 14 September 2025
Small but potent line up at the North-Eastern Rongotea TT today. Glenn Kirk, Cliff Hughes and Winston Briggs dusted off their TT bikes to join Mark Hudson at the pointy end. Results can be found HERE Very cool to see 5 members of the Peel family competing in various...
Rongotea Time Trial 22nd June 2025
Results can be found here: https://www.webscorer.com/race?raceid=395236 Thank you to the volunteers who helped today: Ross O’Dea, Phil Riley, Tim Lloyd, Sam Richardson, Laura Richardson, Andy Richardson, Mark Skinner, Alastair Cadzow and Belinda Cadzow. It was great...
Halcombe Graded Road Race 15th June 2025
Epic morning in Halcombe! Thank you to everyone who participated today, in particular our volunteers: Sam Richardson, Laura Richardson, Holly Richardson, Andy Richardson, Tim Lloyd, Jonathon Hannon, Charles Kerr and Bryant Havill. Without our sponsors it would not be...
Makino Road – TT and Road Race 1st June 2025
It was great to see 41 riders at this morning’s TT and Road Race at Makino Road, results can be found here: https://www.webscorer.com/race?pid=1&raceid=392435 A huge THANK YOU to the volunteers at our event: Sam Richardson, Tim Lloyd, Jo Coxon, Ross O’Dea, Charles...
Weekly Wrap
Sunday was truly an amazing day with 149 riders participating in this year’s Manfeild 6 Hour Cycle Challenge! Thank you to the Mainland Foundation and our sponsors for their generous financial support of this event, and to each and every one of you for supporting...
Next Road Race – Sunday 18th May
A1 Loops Graded Road Race - Sunday 18th May 2025 Sign on and transponder collection from 8.15am at the timing van on Durie Road. Race briefing 8.50am First grade start 9am A Grade 40km (4 laps) B Grade 40km (4 laps) C Grade 30km (3 laps) D Grade 20km (2 laps) E Grade...
Early bird pricing ends on Monday (19th May 2025)
ONLY DAYS TO GO until the 2025 Manfeild 6 Hour Cycle Challenge! ❗Early bird pricing ends on Monday (19th May 2025) 👉 For event details and registration visit: https://bikemanawatu.co.nz/manfeild6hour/
Manfeild 6hr Challenge 2025
Kairanga Mothers Day ITT
Solid turn out to the Kairanga ITT on Mothers day. There was a 24 km option available which was contested by 4 riders with Jaro setting the bench mark of 36.29. 32 riders tackled the 12km out and back with Winston Briggs fastest on the day with a 16.49. The easterly...
Weekly wrap
Great start to the reboot of the cycling calendar last Sunday May 4th with a flat graded Road race at Glen Oroua. 4 grades with Club and schools riders joining up to make for some great racing. This year we are implementing a mentor system to support our junior riders...
From Cyclocross Hawke’s Bay
The new season is upon us! As the temperature drops, and the precipitation starts to fall with slightly higher frequency, it must mean that our favourite time of year is approaching … that's right folks … the cyclocross season is upon us! This year's Bay Ford...
2025 Annual General Meeting
2025 AGM & Prize Giving Greetings Members & Supporters On behalf of the Bike Manawatu Board we wish to invite you all to our Annual General Meeting. Details are as follows: Date: Friday 2nd May 2025 Time: 6pm Venue: Marist Sports Club, 19 Pascal Street,...
The Bush Cycle Tour – 2025
Manfeild 6 Hour – 2025
Merry Christmas 2024
A rare fundraiser please – Last day to order today!
As many of you are aware, Strat Ellingham had a nasty accident on his bike ride and has been in Burwood hospital for a while now. He is making good progress and is even more dedicated to this than he was training on his bike for world champs. In order to raise some...
Bike Manawatu Woolworths Cup – July 2024
What an amazing morning for racing. Please let us know if we have anything wrong in the order of results. Some times were estimated using the video footage. https://www.webscorer.com/race?pid=1&raceid=360074
Interested in trying Cyclocross?
The Hawkes Bay club run a weekly series if anyone is interested in giving it a go.
Ever wanted to become a commissaire?
Cycling NZ RTX technical panel have opened up expressions of interest to those wanting to take part in a commissaire course to become a trained Regional RTX commissaire. If you are interested please click this form https://forms.office.com/r/qwman0VTrR?origin=lprLink...
2024 AGM – Save the Date
2024 AGM & Track Prizegiving Greetings Members & Supporters On behalf of the Bike Manawatu board we wish to invite you all to our Annual General Meeting. Details are as follows: Date: Friday 7th June 2024 Time: TBC but will be approx 5.30pm - 6pm...
BikeManawatu Racing in 2024
Hope 2024 has started well for everyone. Following on from our Christmas break, Bike Manawatu and our sponsors are very excited to announce a racing calendar for the next couple of months. We are working with a skeleton crew, so it’s all hands on deck to supply our...
BM25B – Rongotea, Bainesse, Kairanga
Route Map Ride description BM25B – Rongotea, Bainesse, Kairanga Distance: 82km Description: Vogel St, Airport Drive, Gillespies Line, Kairanga, Rongotea Rd, Kellow Rd, Hwy 56, Bainesse, Pyke Rd, Main Drain Rd, Hoihere Rd, Home
BM25A – Rongotea, Bainesse, Shannon, Linton
Route Map Ride description BM25A – Rongotea, Bainesse, Shannon Linton Distance: 110km Description: Vogel St, Airport Drive, Gillespies Line, Kairanga, Rongotea Rd, Kellow Rd, Hwy 56, Bainesse, Himitangi Block Rd, Foxton Shannon Rd, Shannon, Okuku...
BM06A – Valley Rd, Road to nowhere
Route Map Ride description BM06A – Valley Rd, Road to nowhere Distance: 83km Description: Napier Rd, Ashhurst, left at Valley Rd, Right onto Taonui Rd, turn at the end of the seal. Colyton, Reid line E, Dixons Line, Bunnythorpe Tutaki Rd,...
BM22A – Aokautere, Te Matai, Bridle Trail
Route Map Ride description BM22A - Aokautere, Te Matai, Bridle Trail Distance: 42km Description: Ruahine, Te Awe Awe, Summerhill, Aokautere, Ashhurst, Te Matai Rd, optional Bridle Trail & Home
BM22C – Mangamaire
Route Map Ride description BM22C - Mangamaire Distance: 85km Description: Ruahine, Te Awe Awe, Summerhill, Pahiatua Track, Makomako Rd, Nikau Rd, Tutaekara Rd, Mangamaire, Bridge Rd, Scarborough-Konini Rd, Pahitus Rd, Ballance Rd, Ballance Valley...
BM22B – Post Office Rd
Route Map Ride description BM22B - Post Office Road Distance: 63km Description: Ruahine, Te Awe Awe, Summerhill, Pahiatua Track, Makomako Rd, Ballance Rd, Ballance Valley Rd, Pahiatua Track & Home
BM33B – Halcombe Mt Biggs
Route Map Ride description BM33B - Halcombe Mt Biggs Distance: 71km Description: Feilding via Campbells Rd , Mangone Rd to Halcombe , To Mt Biggs , Sandon Road back via Campbells and Roberts
BM33A – Pryces Line, Mt Biggs
Route Map Ride description BM33A - Pryces Line, Mt Biggs Distance: 92km Description: Vogel street, Roberts Line , Newbury, Campbells Road, Makino Rd to Pryces line, Mt Stewart Halcombe Rd, Mt Biggs School, Sandon Rd Back though Fielding and return...
BM33C – Feilding Colyton
Route Map Ride description BM33C - Feilding Colyton Distance: 46km Description: Vogel, Railway, Roberts, Newbury, Campbells line, East street, Kimbolton Road Colyton Rd Taonui Road, Campbells line, Roberts Line
BM31E – Railway Rd, Stony Creek
Route Map Ride description BM31E – Railway Rd, Stony Creek Distance: 20km Description: Main St, up Vogel St, Railway Rd on cycle path, across to Roberts Line, right at K-B Rd to Bunnythorpe, right to Stoney Creek Rd, right at Napier Rd to...