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- Written by Super User
Once again Bike Manawatu riders attended what is arguably the most important and popular tour on the Junior calendar. Past winners of the various age groups have gone onto bigger and better things and include Olympians Peter Latham, Westley Gough, and Rushlee Buchanan, and Tour winners such as Hayden McCormack, Josh Atkins, Gemma Dudley and Serena Sheridan. Doing well, it seems, is a prerequisite to future honours. Past Manawatu winners include Luke McCarthy (U19), James Dobson (U17), and Campbell Stewart (U15).
It’s not surprising therefore that much of the prize money was won by our current crop of Bike Manawatu juniors.
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- Written by Steve Stannard
Once again Bike Manawatu riders attended what is arguably the most important and popular tour on the Junior calendar. Past winners of the various age groups have gone onto bigger and better things and include Olympians Peter Latham, Westley Gough, and Rushlee Buchanan, and Tour winners such as Hayden McCormack, Josh Atkins, Gemma Dudley and Serena Sheridan. Doing well, it seems, is a prerequisite to future honours. Past Manawatu winners include Luke McCarthy (U19), James Dobson (U17), and Campbell Stewart (U15).
It’s not surprising therefore that much of the prize money was won by our current crop of Bike Manawatu juniors.
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- Written by Glenys Taylor
Prizegiving for the WEdnesday night events will be held on Wednesday night at Linton Army Camp.
Anyone who competed in the first 4 weeks of time trials at Kairanga and was able to obtain 6 or more points will received prizemoney if they are a financial club member.
For the points races that were held at Linton this prizemoney will also be awarded to financial members.
Crit prizes can be awarded to anyone who participated. But you have to be at prizegiving to receive prizes or prizemoney. Anything no collected on the night will be returned to the prizepool.
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- Written by Glenys Taylor
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.
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- Written by Jan Arbuckle
On Saturday morning 65 young cyclists from the Intermediate and High Schools in the Manawatu Region gathered at Palmerston North Boys High keen to take part in the annual Manawatu Schools Cycling Camp.
The kids were split into four groups of varying cycling experience before setting off for the old Pahiatua Hospital where they were to stay the night. Groups 1, 1A and 2, all high school age headed out Napier Road to Ashhurst, up and over the Saddle then once over the other side each group took a different route along quiet country back roads to Pahiatua. The youngest and newest group to cycling, the Intermediate Age cyclists were let off biking up the saddle (the organisers didn't want to put them off cycling before theyʼed even started) and were driven to a location about 15kms out of Pahiatua and biked in two peletons from there.