Saturday Club race and Seniors Club champs

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 was hot calm conditions on Saturday for the club road champs.

With the distances for Club nationals in Queenstown as a deciding factor for the distances to be raced for club champs it was a chance for the junior riders who were not competing for champs but planning on going to Queenstown to test their legs over the distances required.

Thanks to the helpers on the day Colin Huston as marshal on the tricky Watershed Corner assisted partly by Cameron Howell and Britteny Baker and Dileep Rajapakse on the Colyton corner.

Our finish line recorders and judges did a marvellous job of keeping track of just how many laps each person had completed. Thanks to Rebecca Denholm, Alison Kinghorn and Rebecca Ransom who sat in the sun and waited for the very last rider to come through.

Thanks also to Harison King horn who helped pack up the signs at the end of the day.

Click here for results.

Age grouping results will be calculated at a later point in time for end of year prizegiving.