Mid Winter Break from Racing for Seniors.

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.

We are having a mid-winter break from club racing, but things will get back to full-swing in July – the new race calendar is to be released soon.

The program for racing will be split into seasons, at the present point in time the school aged members are having a lot of racing as they build up to the North Island and National school champs.

And as the school racing scene draws to a close at the end of term 3, the recreational rides around the country kick off.

So to align with this the senior racers will be gearing up with some club racing starting in July that will build up to the events that are held around the country starting with the Feilding Festival of Cycling which this year is to be held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th September.