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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,...

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

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...

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 &...

Changes to the Sunday Ride Route Planning

As you probably know, BikeManawatu organises a bunch ride every Sunday. Recently the Sunday ride organisers agreed to trial a new way to choose the routes. Up till now, Mike Keenan and Ken Young maintained a list of paired rides, using routes from the list of rides on...

Sunday Rides Meeting Wednesday 15th June 2022

Recently the Sunday recreational ride organisers and some of the board got together to discuss issues and improvements to the Sunday rides. Minutes below Commenced: 5:33 pm Present: Michael Craine, Keryn Paekau, Tim Lloyd, Michelle Turner, Andrew Ward, Mike Keenan,...

2022 Trusthouse Teams Series 

After another hugely successful time for local riders in the 2021 series, we at Bike Manawatu are in the process of putting together our teams for this years Trusthouse Teams Series. This series has 4 categories/grades and is run over 5 races from September to...

Up & Coming Events for week ending 17th June 2022

Up & Coming Events for week ending 17th June 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 &...

2022 Trusthouse Teams Series 

2022 Trusthouse Teams Series  After another hugely successful time for local riders in the 2021 series, we at Bike Manawatu are in the process of putting together our teams for this years Trusthouse Teams Series. This series has 4 categories/grades and is run over 5...

BM05 – Ashhurst Valley Rd

BM05 – Ashhurst Valley Rd

Route Map   Ride description   BM05 – Ashhurst Valley Rd Distance:  57km Description: Ashhurst Valley Rd Napier Rd, Ashhurst, Pohangina Rd, Valley Rd, Colyton, Left to Watershed Rd Hiwinui, Bunnythorpe Rd Kelvin Grove Rd, Tremain Ave

BM27A – Feilding Halcombe Colyton

BM27A – Feilding Halcombe Colyton

Route Map   Ride description   BM27A – Feilding Halcombe Colyton Distance: 83km Description: Stoney Creek Rd, Feilding, Sandon Rd, Mt Biggs, Mt Biggs Rd, Halcombe Stanway, Makino Rd, Colyton Rd, Colyton, Taonui Rd, Campbell Rd, Bunnythorpe, Tutaki Rd, Home

BM30B – Bunnythorpe Opiki Linton

BM30B – Bunnythorpe Opiki Linton

Route Map Ride description BM30B – Bunnythorpe Opiki Linton Distance: 66km Description: Railway Rd, Kairanga Bunnythorpe, Roberts, Newbury line, across SH3, Rongotea Rd, Lockwood Rd, Hohere Rd, Main Drain , SH56, Right to Opiki , Tane Rd, Linton Drain Rd, SH 57, to...