I started this morning’s ride at Spa Park in Taupo, and headed down the right bank of the Waikato on the Rotary Ride.
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Wairaki MTB Park
This morning I briefly considered doing yesterday’s ride all over again, but I forced myself to drive past Waipa and continue on to Rotorua.
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Split Enz is my favourite trail ever
At 9.30 this morning I was at the bike park ready to ride, and thanks to the shuttle, 15min later I was 300m higher near the top of the hill.
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Rotorua in the rain
I’m in the back of my X-trail beside a steaming hot pool in Rotorua, about to spend my first night.
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Hatfields Beach Peaches
Early this afternoon Kerry rang and convinced me that the rain was over and that an Orewa ride would be good.
Beveridge Track, Titirangi
Keen to ride a new trail, and to see if Steve the bike mechanic has finally got my gears changing properly, I headed to the Waitakeres this morning.
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Lake Rotokakahi – Green Lake
Kerry wasn’t very keen on riding this morning, and it took all my powers of manipulation to make him think he was persuading me to ride around Green Lake near Rotorua.
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Mangapurua Trail to Bridge to Nowhere
I’m sitting in the bush at the lookout over the Bridge to Nowhere, on the Whanganui River.
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Tongariro River Trail
After our big ride the day before, we decided to have an easy ride along the river outside Audrey’s family holiday house in Turangi.
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Moerangi Track
This morning we had a huge cooked breakfast ordered for 7am, because we planned to ride 38km across the Moerangi Track in the Whirinaki Forest.
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Whirinaki Track
We arrived in Minginui quite early, so we asked our hostess at the Whirinaki Forest Holidays lodge to drop us at the end of the 16km Whirinaki track and pick us up two hours later.
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Royal Albany with James
This evening I went for a bike ride with my son James, down at the Royal Albany Bicycle Reserve.
Whitford Forest – Wairoa River
Rode another new trail today with Kerry, out past Whitford.
Ambury Park to Stonefields at sunset
I took my bike for a ride around the Manukau after I dropped Felicity and Judith at the airport this evening.
Waharau – Whakatawhi Ridge
This afternoon I went for a new ride at Waharau Regional Park.
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Proposed new track 18 is way cool
Took my bike out to Riverhead yesterday to check out what the West Coast Riders Club have been up to in their block of forest.
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RIP Spaghetti
Yesterday I rode a bunch of Woodhill trails for what might be the last time. Next week the loggers arrive to harvest the pine trees. The bike park hopes to be able to repair the tracks afterwards, but they will be out in the open for quite a few years; the sandy surface will dry out faster and be less fun to ride.
Royal Albany Ride to test drains
After installing several new drains on the bike track last week, I was keen to test them out.
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Bringing up Father
I was right, the Woodhill tracks were running sweet after all the rain.
Deer at Connifer Grove office
I surprised two wild deer as I arrived at the Connifer Grove picnic area in Woodhill Forest this morning. Bikes travel fairly quietly, so I was only a hundred metres or so away before they bounded off. A normal height wire fence didn’t even slow them down!