Hokitika Cycling Club

27/04/2026

A massive congratulations to our riders that took to the start line for the first Canterbury Tour over the weekend, Gemma, Darren, Martin and Andy, plus our de facto club member Noah!

An even bigger congratulations to Martin on taking both 2nd in the General Classification and 1st in the Points Category for his grade, and to Andy on taking 2nd on the GC in his grade.

I’m sure the club will have more members lining up for year two.

Well done team and great to see the season fitness being used still and not lost like some of us might be doing now!

13/04/2026

Afternoon all, here’s our season end prize giving night report from this afternoon’s Greymouth Star. Same article was in this morning’s Hokitika Guardian. A nice wrap up of a fantastic club season! Enjoy

12/04/2026

Part 2 of 3 for the prize giving and end of season update

We all know that cycling is a sport where numbers matter, however this post has nothing to do with FTP, V02 Max, Heart Rate, cadence, power, speed or training scores and recovery time, but has everything to do with this cool little clubs numbers for the season that was.

The Hokitika Cycling Club brought its 2025/26 season to a close on Tuesday evening, but not before delivering some seriously impressive results.

What started in September and ended in April has been a long season, with plenty of time given by volunteers.

2️⃣9️⃣ - We delivered 29 races this season and two club driven bunch rides

8️⃣ - We raced on eight different Tuesday night courses, on 132km of West Coast road between Nelson Creek and Hari Hari

3️⃣ - We raced on three weekend courses on 117km of West Coast road from Denniston to Hokitika

🥇x3️⃣- We re broke Tuesday turnout records three times this season, with a 76 rider recorded at club champs being the best in club history by some margin

5️⃣3️⃣ - We had an average of 53 riders on Tuesday nights

1️⃣3️⃣4️⃣ - We had 134 unique racers racing this season

3️⃣0️⃣ - We presented 30 awards at prizegiving

1️⃣ - There is only one John Strange! And he is now our newest life member

Lots - Lots of success for our members in races around the country and even overseas. Headlined by our superstar Sharlotte Lucas, who won yet another Le Race recently, this season she took the 🥇 at the cyclocross nationals, was 🥈 at the crit nationals and made the winning split at the elite road nationals which arguably was the strongest bunch of female cyclists fighting it out on New Zealand roads in the history of the sport. She also took an incredible win in Australia and in doing so earned herself a place at the gravel world champs.

And we will do it all again for season 2026/27.

Cheers 🍻
Ash

08/04/2026

Evening team,

Last night we celebrated the success of our season at the annual prizegiving. Thanks to those that attended and sorry to those that missed it.

In a picture below is the list of all of the winners of the various awards, along with the group shot of all the winners from the night with their awards (some won multiple awards and some were absent), and some pictures of a few awards being handed over.

This will be the first of three posts this week reflecting on last night, the other two will summarise the season as per my presidents report at the start and the other will be dedicated to our newest life member John Strange, what an honour it was to bestow that upon a stalwart of our club.

Congratulations to our winners, thanks to our members, volunteers, sponsors and committee for your roles in delivering one hellova season for our cool little club.

Cheers,
Ash

06/04/2026

Reminder - Season End Prize Giving is tonight (Tuesday).
Location: Pioneer Hotel, Hokitika.

- Gather from 6pm.
- Prize giving will start at 6.30pm.
- Food platters will be coming out from around 7.00pm.
- And there's a drink for all members.

Prize giving includes Most Improved Junior and Senior, Most Honest Rider, and Most Helpful, as voted by members. And of course, Wheel Sucker!
Here's the shortlist of this season's Most Improved awards:
Most Improved Junior:
- Lincoln Martin
- Jack Dalley
- Rhys Groot
Most Improved Senior:
- Martin Ryder
- Warwick Martin
- Allan Bruhn
- Ben Aynsley

Friends and family most welcome and would be great to have them along. We have an awesome season to celebrate!
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And if you still have a timing chip, please bring it along as we are gathering them all in. Thanks.

See you all tonight.

02/04/2026

Kia ora koutou,

Here’s our last race report for the season, from this afternoon’s Greymouth Star. Enjoy

31/03/2026

Morning, here’s a few photos from last night. Another great evening to finish our racing season on. Enjoy.

31/03/2026

Here are the results from tonights Festival of Cycling, held on Old Christchurch Road. Which was the last Tuesday night race of our 2025/26 season.

Congratulations to the winners of each grade;

Ash and Obi Cassin (Tow a Child TT)

Darren Claridge (Individual TT)

Andy Lyes, Tim Maitland & Chris Maitland (Team TT)

Damien, Lotte & Rhys Groot plus Graham Provis (Family TT)

Michael & Arthur Lilley (Tandem TT)

A massive thanks to everyone involved in delivering the season, whether helping out as a volunteer, supporter, sponsor or our riders. The club wouldn't be what it is without you.

Next week we draw the season to a close with prizegiving, more details of that will go up in a further post. See you all there.

30/03/2026

Gday team,

It’s the eve of the last race of the season and we are excited to see the season off with the “Festival of Cycling”.

If you are yet to have entered yourself, your team, your family, your tandem or your child on a trailer behind you or shotgun seat in front of you then please do so on the link below by 12noon tomorrow to help Wiff get things in order as he will be towing a child tomorrow night!

Key details and note the change to usual;

Meet outside the Arahura Marae at 5.30pm

5.55pm - Race Briefing

6.00pm - First rider/group start (the aim is to get things underway early, due to this being the last week of Daylight Saving, and to get us to the Pioneer in good time)

Reminder there is a user pays end of series social doo at the Pioneer after the race.

Any trophies yet to be returned please do so tomorrow or reach out to a committee member to arrange their return as prizegiving is Tuesday April 7th.


Cheers,
Ash

Registration for Festival of Cycling. Please remember to Scroll to the bottom of the page.. and click Next..

26/03/2026

Evening all,

We have some rough weather coming but Tuesday looks good for our last round of cycling for the season.

It is the week effectively dubbed “The Festival of Cycling” where you can choose, Individual TT, Team TT, Family TT, Tow Your Child TT or Tandem TT.

It’s on the Old Christchurch Road course and is the standard 16km out and back. Sponsored by Westland Pharmacy.

The entry form got sent out last night but if you missed it the link is below 👇🏼

The question on my mind is will Team Groot have 5 members this week? 🤔

Thanks again for a great season to date team.

Cheers,
Ash

Registration for Festival of Cycling. Please remember to Scroll to the bottom of the page.. and click Next..