Leading up top the La Femme fun ride, “Sport Manawatu have a women’s only workshop to help you to the finish line for your first cycle event. The workshop will be run over two consecutive Wednesday evenings. We will cover bike and helmet safety, bike setup and...

The Retro Ride has unfortunately been postponed.   A new date will be announced soon. 

The REV Cycle Race is due to be held Saturday 28 February in Cambridge. Clubs such as yours are incredibly important to the REV - having experienced cyclists on-course helps to improve the experience for everyone involved; from those familiar with bunch riding to...

This year I have been living the dream. In March I was selected in the Junior Worlds Track cycling team. I was based in Cambridge (Waikato) for a month before we flew to Seoul, South Korea for the Junior Track Cycling World Championships. Living in one big house, with...

A reminder that entries to the Skoda Elite & U19 Track National Championships close on 5 January . Please let your performance riders know and help them enter.  Information about entering and entry criteria is available at...

The lure of a drink and nibbles to celebrate the end of another successful season certainly didn’t bring the punters out. So it must have been that everyone was just too busy to come out to Kairanga and claim prizemoney. So next year there will be an even bigger prize...

EVENT DATE SUN 22 MAR - SAT 28 MAR 2015 Be the first to ride the Pedal the Plateau course! 2015 marks the inaugural year of Pedal the Plateau and we are launching our fabulous new event with an exclusive Premier Ride. On 22 March our Founding 50 riders will leave...

SIMON VAN VELTHOOVEN Cambridge 2014 Since moving back to NZ from Japan in September earlier this year all I can say is that it has been awesome. Training in this town is much 'easier' in regards to the facilities and the coaches available but I can tell you now - the...

On Monday night nearly 100 people descended on Marist Clubrooms for the final major gathering of the year. It was also an opportunity to say thanks to Paul van Velthooven who had served as chairperson of the Board since Bike Manawatu was formed. The BBQ had been...

The rain kept people away today but as it has been shown in the past on a wet day when there is no wind you actually seem to hydrofoil across the water laying on the road. There is little resistance and so times seem to be faster. So for all of those people that...

Not sure whether it was the daunting prospect of Ngahere Park or whether everyone is just too busy at this time of year or the other possibility is that everyone is saving themselves for other events or recovering from events from last week. Whatever the case on near...