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.
A recent article in the Manawatu Standard:
A daunting bike ride from Cape Reinga to Bluff has become all the rage within the cycling fraternity, rather like the Camino de Santiago walking pilgrimage across Spain.
New Zealand’s wheeled version is Tour Aotearoa, described as a 3000-kilometre bike-packing odyssey, a third of it ridden on gravel, a third off-road and a third on-road.