event date: Saturday 30 November 2013
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Summer Series

BikeNZ Ride

As part of entering the Contact Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge you will automatically be signed up to BikeNZ’s Ride to become a member of New Zealand’s cycling community. BikeNZ’s Ride unites all New Zealand cyclists whether you’re riding for fun, riding for Gold or riding to work. It’s the home for all things cycling; regular updates of the latest news, tips, events and places to ride.

Summer Series

This year, BikeNZ is giving you a reason to spend the summer travelling New Zealand with your bike. The BikeNZ Summer Series brings New Zealand’s top recreational events together under one big sun umbrella.

From riding your bikes through parts of NZ you may have never been to through to beating your mates in the General Classification, the BikeNZ Summer Series is guaranteed to be the highlight of your summer!

Summer Series General Classification

The General Classification (or GC) is your chance to combine all your Summer Series event rides over the season to count towards your position on the General Classification. This classification will rank your performances over the season against other social cyclists, and will reward you for commitment to the bike as well as constant improvement.

Each event in the series is a stage in the summer cyclists’ Tour of New Zealand. You don’t have to complete each stage, but you do need to do at least 2 in order to get a ranking. You ranking will be based on your best 3 results. The rankings are calculated this way to ensure that winners are the fastest and most consistent riders, not necessarily the ones who ride the most events.

As with any tour, there will be yellow leader’s jerseys, bragging rights and saddle bags full of prizes!