Club Road Champs Results

Despite the current ‘cost of living challenges’ facing all community events, Bike Manawatu is 100% committed to ensuring the 51st year of the Novice Tour – once again provides a safe, fun, competitive cycle racing event.

We will adopt a high-quality assured approach in implementing the Local Roading Authority’s/Cycling New Zealand’s ‘Safe Traffic Management System’ (STMS) standards which ensure best practices and rider and spectator safety.

If the level of community funding secured is not sufficient to contract in external road management service providers with the ability to stop/go traffic, the Novice Tour will proceed on a ‘local club racing’ model, whereby our team of trained/experienced road marshals will, where necessary, pause racing in order to give way to traffic and ensure rider safety.

Although funding external road management services with the ability to stop/go traffic is ideal, if this is not feasible – we are confident that the event’s ‘Safe Traffic Management System’ (STMS) will provide a competitive, fair, enjoyable and importantly safe racing environment.

Irrespective of which model of traffic management/racing is finalised, as with all CNZ/Bike Manawatu events, normal road rules will apply and a full rider briefing confirming the event rules will be provided to all riders prior to the start of each race.

What a brilliant day – the weather couldn’t have been kinder. The suggestion to run the club champs at this time of the year rather than the end of the year was taken on board by the events working group and the date was set. So if it seems that we have had club champs in very quick succession then you are right we have. The medals for these club champs will be awarded at the AGM on 26th April at Marist Clubrooms starting at 7pm.

Having the majority of riders pre-register via the calendar was brilliant and made the job of sorting out who was riding in what group so much easier. Please remember when registering it is the Bike NZ username and password that you need to use. If you have not changed it to something you can remember yet, go to www.bikenz.org.nz and click on the right hand side where it says online membership road and track. Login using the user name and password then click on update my details. Scroll down to access and change the user name and password to something meaningful to you.

Thanks to Oiroa, Brian and Barry for recording all the results and setting groups off at the correct times. Thanks also to Kim Andersen and Suzanne Winterburn for helping at registration and John Arbuckle and Suz Winterburn again for being marshalls out on the course.

Click here for full results.

Still to come are hill climb champs which will be held at the end of the year.

Please note that non members although their results are recorded are not eligible for medals.