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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...

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...

Up & Coming Events for week ending  27th May 2022

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 &...

Notice of 2022 Bike Manawatu Annual General Meeting

Greetings Members & Supporters Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Bike Manawatu Inc will be held as follows: Date:    Friday 10th June 2022 Time:    6.00pm Venue:  Marist Sports Club, 19 Pascal Street, Palmerston North We will host our Road...

Up & Coming Events for week ending  20th May 2022

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 &...

2022 AGM & Prizegiving

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...

Up & Coming Events for week ending  13th May 2022

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 &...

Manfeild 6 Hour Cycle Challenge 2022 Cancelled

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...

April 2022 Update

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...

The Ramblers Hawkes Bay Tour 2022

Hawkes Bay Tour 2022 On behalf of our friends over at Ramblers Cycling Club please find below information about their up and coming tour. Saturday 4th - Sunday 5th June 2022 at Ohiti Rd (self-contained campers are welcome) Saturday 4 June 2022 Stage 1 9am - 58 km road...

Open Interclub Road Race 15.05.2022

OPEN Interclub Road Race You may have seen that we have recently had to make the tough decision to cancel our Manfeild 6 Hour Cycle Challenge. We had this date all lined up for a great endurance event and although we have had to cancel we still want to be able to put...

AGRN 2022

Congratulations to everyone who attended Age Group Road Nationals in Hokitika this year. A massive thank you to Cheryl Murphy who put her hand up to manage our team and to Jo Coxon for great photos and updates along with each and everyone of our supporters who made...

Up & Coming Events for week ending  27 April 2022

Up & Coming Events for week ending  27 April 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 &...

BM21C – Opiki-Shannon-Rongotea

BM21C – Opiki-Shannon-Rongotea

Route Map Ride description BM21C – Opiki-Shannon-Rongotea Distance: 106km Description: Out via Linton, right past Linton school , Linton station road , Linton Drain Road, Tane Road through Opiki, Poplar Road, Okuku Road, SH57, Foxton Shannon Rd, Himitangi Block Road,...

BM21A – Linton Opiki

BM21A – Linton Opiki

Route Map Ride description BM21A – Linton Opiki Distance: 55km Description: Linton to Opiki , Right SH 56 Left Alve Rd, Left then Right Main Drain, Right Hoihere Road . Right lockwood. Right Rongotea Road and home