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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

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...

Ian Gray, a pivotal figure of Manawatu Cycling

From the Cycling New Zealand Spotlight Newsletter Palmerston North’s Ian Gray has been a keen cyclist, cycle shop owner, cycling advocate, coach and mentor for over 60 years. Recently cycling historian and author can be added to his long list of contributions to the...

Central Storage Christmas Ride

Central storage Christmas day ride leaving from Evo car park at 6 o’clock sharp Christmas morning. This will be a 30K ride finishing off at Central Storage with light refreshments.

Thank You Garry

All good things must come to an end Central Storage (Garry Buys), a long time supporter of BikeManawatu, has decided to end his sponsorship of the club's weekly prize draw, Thank you Garry for making the prize draw possible for so many years. Many of you will have...

Up & Coming Events for week ending 14th October 2022

Up & Coming Events for week ending 14th October 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 Novice Tour Volunteers...

Junior World Track Champs 2022 – Tel Aviv, Israel

By Georgia Simpson. I would first like to thank everyone for the amazing support they gave me on my journey to the Track Cycling World Champs this year. This was an experience of a lifetime and will be cherished for the rest of my life. Now starting to fully recover...

Up & Coming Events for week ending 30th September 2022

Up & Coming Events for week ending 30th September 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 Novice Tour Volunteers...

Round 3 National Track Series Event for 2022

NTS round #3 Wilson Hannon -first NTS this season went out there and impressed. Footing it with the best including the junior worlds team members coming away with some very inspiring results. Including 2nd the points race and 2nd in the Kerin. Ben Murphy continues to...

Up & Coming Events for week ending 16th September 2022

Up & Coming Events for week ending 16th September 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 Novice Tour Volunteers...

Bike Manawatu Track Cycling 2022

When: Saturday 8th October & Sunday 9th October 2022 Time: 1:00pm - 3.30pm Where: Johnston Park, Velodrome - Drake Street, Feilding What to bring: Helmet, Gloves, Water Bottle, Warm Jacket, Cycle Shoes & Pedals (if you have them) *Free Track Bikes Provided for...

First 2022 Trust House Race

Sunday was the first race in this years Trusthouse North Island Teams Series. We didn’t have as many Manawatu based teams entered this year, but we were still well represented by our local riders. The day started a little cold and wet, but as the first grades went,...

Up & Coming Events for week ending 9th September 2022

Up & Coming Events for week ending 9th September 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 &...

Bike Manawatu riders support daffodil day fundraiser

4 Manawatu riders traveled to New Plymouth to take part in a charity ride around Mount Taranaki on Daffodil Day to raise funds for the Cancer Society. Wayne Fage, Rob Ryan, Brady Kennett and Mike Dunne endured over 185kms of rain and cold weather to complete the...

Spring – Summer Racing Plans 2022

Bike Manawatu would like to let our riders know that we have our draft calendar in progress and are in the process of having our Spring / Summer traffic management plans approved. Our racing schedule will hopefully look a little like this: Tuesday 27th September - A1...

Sunday recreational ride route survey results

Recently we change the planning of the Sunday Recreational Rides so that the ride coordinators chose the courses on the day. We promised to get your feedback on that change. Here are the results: In the survey responses, it was clear that ride routes published ahead...

Novice Tour 2022

Novice Tour 2022 Junior Tour - Under 13 - Under 19 Boys & Girls 2 Days - 3 Stages 29th - 30th October 2022 Halcombe https://bikemanawatu.co.nz/novice-tour/ Click here to register Volunteers Needed We are actively seeking more volunteers to help us with...

Event Traffic Management Workshop

Volunteers are a critical part of our club being able to run events. Keeping those volunteers safe whilst keeping the athletes safe is also vital to all events. To help us offer safe events for everyone involved our lovely friends over at the Manawatu Triathlon Club...

Recreational Riders – Safety

Recreational Riders - Safety While it’s okay to challenge yourself, our recreational rides are social and are designed to keep our bunches together and not dropping riders, all while doing so safely and having fun before a nice social stop at the local coffee shop....

Up & Coming Events for week ending 1st July 2022

Up & Coming Events for week ending 1st July 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 &...

BM13 – Opiki , Ohakea, Mt Biggs

BM13 – Opiki , Ohakea, Mt Biggs

Route Map Ride description BM13 – Opiki , Ohakea, Mt Biggs Distance: 109km Description: Opiki, Ohakea, Mt Biggs Fitzroy, Albert St, Te Awe Awe St, Tennant Dr, Akers Rd, Linton Station Rd, Linton Drain Rd, Tane Rd SH 58, Alve Rd, SH 56, Main Drain Rd, Sansons Rd, Left...

BM10 – Haynes line, Beaconsfield

BM10 – Haynes line, Beaconsfield

Route Map   Ride description   Distance: 79km Description: Haynes line, Beaconsfield Out via Napier Rd, Stoney Creek Rd, Campbell’s line, East St, Kimbolton Rd, Haynes line, left onto Beaconsfield Valley Rd, Cheltenham Hunterville Rd, McKays Line, Left one Makino Rd,...

BM07 – Feilding Leithbridge Rd

BM07 – Feilding Leithbridge Rd

Route Map   Ride description   Distance: 61km Description: Feilding Leithbridge Rd Napier Rd, Stoney Creek Rd, Campbells line, Aorangi Rd, Makino Rd, Leithbridge Rd, Managhs Rd, Te Rakehou Rd, Sandon Rd, West St, South St, Aorangi Rd, Campbells line, Tutaki Rd, Kelvin...