the REV Cycle Race– Bike Manawatu team???

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.

The REV Cycle Race is due to be held Saturday 28 February in Cambridge.

Clubs such as yours are incredibly important to the REV – having experienced cyclists on-course helps to improve the experience for everyone involved; from those familiar with bunch riding to those new on the scene. With this in mind, we’re making it our mission to get more New Zealand clubs involved in 2015.

We know some of your club members have experienced the fast and challenging terrain of the REV in the past, and to celebrate our milestone 10th edition in 2015 we want to encourage more of your club members to get involved.
If you have 10 or more club members who would be keen to take part in the event, we will discount their entry by 10%.
If this sounds like something that you and your club members are interested in, please reply to me directly and I will arrange a discount code for you to pass onto your members once you have established numbers. This offer is open until 31 January.

This year marks the 10th edition of the event and will see a number of exciting new elements be introduced, including free commemorative cycling caps for all participants who complete the REV 100. Excitingly, 2015 also marks the first year in which the Radio Sport REV Classic has been awarded a UCI 1.2 rating – something of which we are extremely proud.

With this in mind, we’d love to see your club members get involved. If you have any additional suggestions about how we can best encourage more cycling groups to take part, I’d love to hear from you. As mentioned, we’re determined to get as many clubs involved as possible and any help or advice you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

For more information about the event, please visit: www.therev.co.nz/ | www.facebook.com/TheREVCycleRace