Track Crew News - September 2008

"Mr. & Mrs." seems to be a hit and people are getting fitter by having to ride the Ground effect Grinder more often. The new changes to the exits of Young Pines and Slalom are for the future races just duck when you go under the Slalom Bridge.

The new alignments mean we don’t have to have the drafting gates anymore when the fast guys lap the tail enders.

The Drone also had a birthday so it will flow better within the track system. Outback now has its own entry track, if you bike around the Drone, you go up the old entry track over the bridge and around the loop. When leaving the Drone or Dipper go under the bridge take a stage left and dive down the new track built in the gut. Outback is now straight ahead after the bridge, or for a hoot go down the gut the up the new Outback track.

A lot of the realignment work and new tracks are for the Huka race and future Mtb club races in the future and has been funded by Rotary

Both Tank Stand and the Coaster have had a lot of maintenance work done on them to both get the water off better and take out the rutting. Please take it easy on the braking going down Tank Stand.

We have also opened up a new Entry/Exit track on the Redwoods. This leads up onto SH1 and then bike along the grass to the top of the control gates hill 

Hope to fix this week the free bike wash which has been in the Lake Hire Link Tunnel for the last two mouths, had a bit of customer resistance to this new feature.

We have also cleared off the trees on the Waikato River tracks for those noising around in Spa Park, in fact those tracks are in great order so check them out

Carwin has been digging away doing a realignment on the Paintball track so check it out. Just ride in Paintball the normal way up the tree root hill,  hang a left some where along that track and you will see the entry,  it needs riding to compact it so check it out its all hand built single track 


To all those people that have turned out to Working Bees and helped Marshaling  in the last year a big thank you because with out your help we could not have anywhere near the amount of maintience work done. We hope you most of all enjoy blasting down the Tank Stand and Coaster after all the recent work


Pete. M