Wednesday time trials week 7

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 is getting closer to the end of the series, just one more week of points and then prizegiving. To give you some facts and figures for this series, we have had 93 people particpate over the series. Some of those were only new last night, but we have had anything from 26 to 57 participants on any one night.

Of the 41 people that took part last night only 11 were able to better their previous best time. David Martin and Jessica Hamilton have both been able to improve on their times from the beginning of the series by nearly 3 minutes.

Mark Waterland who normally calculates the results for us is away on school camp this week so if you have any problems with the results this week I will be the one that will have to sort it out.

Thanks to the helpers this week – Marcel Hollenstein on the turn, Kirsty Kaihau, Michelle Mikkelsen, for recording starts and finish times, Paul Roberts for holding on the start line.

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