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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.

It has been suggested that in this day and age that where everybody has access to a computer or mobile device that can access the weekly newsletter that there is no need to post out a quarterly newsletter.

This will not only save time but also postage and printing costs.

There are a few people that don’t get the weekly newsletter because they don’t have a computer at home but this is a diminishing number. For all new club members they will still be posted out the booklet that is soon to be reprinted along with some other things that have been posted in the past to members inside newsletters.eg coffee cards and sticky ICE labels. These are normally posted out at the same time as the newsletter as it saves time rather than mailing each week when members join.

If you know of someone who is a member that doesn’t receive the weekly email newsletter because they don’t have access to it please let me know.

Or if you don’t want a hardcopy newsletter posted out please let me know.

If I don’t hear from you I will assume that you do.

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