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.
Kirsty Kaihau has been taking some great photos, and she suggested we have a “Photo Gallery” section on the website.
So I’ve added a new Section where we can put galleries of photos. Try viewing the photos full screen by clicking the little arrow in the bottom right corner!
On our other website (www.FeildingFestivalofCycling.co.nz) , we’ve used a Cooliris Plugin for Joomla called “Bonckowall”. I guess it means something more exciting in Italian (where the developer is from). I was pleased with the results, and I got a lot of positive feedback, so I’ll use it on the BikeManawato site as well.
For the techies among you, it’s a flash based component (sorry iOS users Steve Jobs won’t let you see the pictures) which creates thumbnails of the pictures and displays them in a “moving wall” of photos. The Photos themselves are stored in a PicasaWeb album. This works really well because Kirsty (or any authorised person) can upload the photos directly from Picasa on their home computer, and the storage of the photos is free!
I hope you enjoy them.
If you would like to upload some of your own photos, see a blog I wrote earlier on how to upload photos. Contact me for the account details.
