This years tracks are all up and running with just the last creation from the skunk works being build half way down the Control gate hill.

General feeling is its going to be harder but people should be spread out more, so it should be more enjoyable.

Few tips from the skunk works:

1. Don't bust your ass too early. If you get to the the hub cafe and are not as sharp as a tac, then you are about to have a long day in the office.
2. Some of the most techy single  tracks are at about the 65 km mark, so be on game, this is where the hard work starts
3. For the Huka and Cruiser Class: TeTotara Gully and J&D are very techy single tracks with little or  no passing -  make sure you are running in a group of the same speed
4. At the start of TeTotara gully you will bike over a small boardwalk beside a waterfall. Just after this is a very short but steep hill which is bloody hard to ride up (if you do it you are a legend). Its faster to run it !
5. Half way down the Control gates hill you will be turning hard left into a gully which will have a new down hill single track Watch out for the left hand turn, if you are going too fast its going to get messy.
6. Be nice to the mashals and thank them its a bloody long hard day for them as well

The Track Crew