Orange has narrowed as the sole location being considered by organisers of human powered vehicle (HPV) races to host a first ever New South Wales event.

HPVs are recumbent, pedal-powered vehicles that can travel at speeds of up to 50 kilometres an hour.

Races as part of the Australian International Pedal Prix circuit held in other states attract up to 3,000 competitors and 30,000 spectators.

Riders are in teams of between 10 and 20, many of them school students, who rotate through shifts of up to 45 minutes or an hour.

Representatives of Orange City Council travelled to Murray Bridge near Adelaide in September to view the AIPP 24 hour race is run.

This week, AIPP Andrew McLachlan, visited Orange to view the proposed site of an April 2016 race and talk with Orange City Council.

"The site has existing infrastructure with bike paths and has terrific aesthetic appeal as far as we're concerned but it also lends itself very well to an HPV track in terms of the layout of the existing pathways," Mr McLachlan said.

"So if we do proceed obviously with council's support at that site it minimises the cost."

"I think council are really quite supportive of the idea and they now need to do some feasibility and we now need to do some feasibility in terms of how we get people to come to Orange and we're confident we can get that to happen," he said.

"I think council are pretty confident they can get the numbers work for them and between us we can make it happen."

He said paths at Gosling Creek Reserve on the outskirts of Orange would need to be widened and the council is now drawing up cost estimates.

"By about three metres all around the park and with a bit of capital works on pathways just to improve cambers on corners and those sorts of things but in the scheme of things not a massive project," Mr McLachlan said.

Mr McLachlan said the current cycleway loop at Gosling Creek reserve is between 900 metres and 1.1 kilometres, depending on the configuration, which would suit an initial competition in Orange of 30 to 40 teams.

"The really good thing about the Gosling park site is that it lends itself to extension so there's an initial loop that can be completed which is really perfect for what we need.

"If, when, the competition expands and more people want to come to Orange, we can look at extending."

Mr McLachlan said AIPP does not have the resources to provide funding to establish an HPV track in Orange.

However he said it can help the local HPV group to lobby businesses and schools for support and is confident of receiving local funds for an event which would involve the wider community.

"It's clean and green it's kids getting activity involved the community getting involved it ticks all those really terrific boxes about engagement essentially with youth people."