Track Crew News - July 2008

It wasn’t long ago that every body was moaning about the dust and tracks getting a hard time. We have had the odd tree down but overall all the system is in very good nick and has handled the rain

The new track of the top of the Ground Effect Grinder is now joined up to Young Pines. Take it easy at the bottom one of the dips jumps up and grabs you.

This track is being funded by Rotary and is going to be an important link in the 70 km Huka Challenge MTB race. We still have some other links to built so we can run this race, this event is very important to our long term maintenance funding as it will let us keep expanding the system, so make sure you tell people about it.

The Day Nighter track has also had a birthday and is riding a lot smother faster. Murray Fleming has cleared off the trees that came down in the last blow so check it out, good way of making a Huka falls ride a bit longer or a night ride close to town.

Totara Gully is open again thanks to the DoC track crew they have done a great job. You still have to carry your bike for about 20 meters along the other slip near the Huka end but it no big deal its still being worked on.

Big Thank You to the people who turned up for coffee and to help dig out the tunnel under SH1. Being an inside job, it didn't matter that the weather wasn't the best....  Two and a half hours from woe to go. A great job done!

We have had the odd tree down and slip on W2K but it still seems to be getting a lot of riders which is great.
 
Can people please let us know via the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or give us a ring if they find a slip or a tree down please, just means we can get onto them faster.

Cheers


Pete M.

Track Crew News - June 08

Thanks to all the people who have turned up at working bee’s of late.

We got the Rotary Ride fixed and open within a week only because people gave up some time on a Saturday morning to help us. Plus the Buzzard is much better to ride now the rutting has been cleaned up. Bike Taupo can’t do all the work by themselves on the budget we have we just have to many Kms of tracks so it’s great when we get help.

Seems to be a lot of riders around Wairakei, was very busy on Saturday, if you are a local and you see people looking like a stunned mullet at a sign post ask if they are lost and show them were to go.

We have pulled out of W2K for the winter; we got 3Kms out on the headland track so check it out it needs some traffic on it to pack it down. We still have the gully track and board walk to build in Kinlock which we will chip away at over the next few mouths

Lots of riders, walkers and runners on W2K so take it easy and get a bell for your bike it’s a hell of lot easier if you keep running into lots of walkers. And take in easy on the brakes, we have already had spend a day putting in rock braking points
 
Hope to start the new down hill off the top of the Ground Effect Grinder next month.
This track is being build so we can run race’s in a big figurer of eight and is being sponsored by Rotary as its going to be part of the Wild Side 70Km Mt bike race being held with around the lake.
It’s a great course and we have got it so you will only have to ride one little part twice. We will also have places you have never ridden before

Murray Fleming has done a lot of work on the Day Nighter track so if you want a  night ride check it out, more riders the better to help pack it down

We are working in with DoC to try and get something sorted out in Totara Gully, will have to reroute the track in one place and shift a bridge we think but will try and keep it nice single track
 
Cheers
 
Track Crew