Senior Riders wanted for Trust House Cycling Series

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.

From Sam Gardner:

I am keen to get a local Manawatu Elite team into the North Island team series run around various venues near Masterton, see

http://www.cyclingseriesnz.co.nz/

It would be a chance for young senior riders to race against the best riders in the country, and gain experience and hopefully get in the mix.

I have 7 riders already interested who can compete at that level, and i can have a maximum of 12 riders on the team, so if you’re a senior keen to race at Elite level and haven’t yet got a team for the series please check you can make most of the dates and send me an email to sam@bikeboxrental.co.nz with a short list of your results.

I am also looking for either another joint main sponsor alongside my business www.bikeboxrental.co.nz or several co-sponsors to help get this project off the ground.

The team registration is $600, and a quote for 1 set each of custom printed kit for 10 riders is about $1900. So $2500 in total to be split however.

This kit would undoubtably be used for training by all the riders too, and in other local events, and I’m sure with the riders keen at present we would get plenty of exposure on the national cycling sites on the internet, in local press and in national cycling print press too. I’ll be aiming to win the national cyclocross champs in this kit in a months time if it is printed in time.

I have got the time to do all the organising of kit, race entries, recruiting riders etc, what i need from other co-sponsors is hard cash and an EPS or Jpeg of your company logo, placement on the kit can be negotiated depending on your financial contribution. For more details contact me on sam@bikeboxrental.co.nz .