Trails

Hunua Trails

Single Track through regenerating native bush. Get away from it all!
If you haven’t ridden in the ARC Hunua Ranges Park, it’s time you checked it out. Only 40 mins from town, you’d swear you were hundreds of kilometres away from the Big Spoke. There’s camping facilities where you park and the MTB tracks have been growing over the last few years and continue to grow.

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Arch Hill Trails

Auckland City Council is building a few trails in Arch Hill Scenic Reserve.

(3/5/10) The trails are pretty much done but the dry weather has meant they are not as consolidated as hoped so go easy on those brakes. Signage is installed and we’re holding an opening ceremony to mark the occasion on 30/5/2010 at 12 noon.

The lower loop is called ‘Training Wheels’ and is about 600m long. The upper loop utilises more of the steep terrain to produce some great riding, is approx. 1.1 km long and is called ‘Twist and Shout’.

I have taken the liberty of attaching the artwork for the welcome board whcih doubles as a trail map of sorts……

Arch Hill welcome board

Royal Albany Mountain Bike Trails

To many of you, the knowledge that there are 14 km of fully legal, tough, twisty singletrack on the North Shore will be a bit of a surprise! The trails are progressing at Albany with new tracks being formed and Massey University fully supporting the project but they do need a bit of input to get them just right and one guy has been building these for 5 years! It is about time he had a bit of help!! They’re organsing working bees on the second Sunday of each month.
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For more info and possibly to arrange a personal tour contact James on flocycles@xtra.co.nz.

Hamlins Hill

Another new venue for an MTB trail in Auckland City is in the ARC Hamlins Hill Regional Park. With an official MTB OPen Day on 28th March 2010 this is your chanc to show the ARC some supoprt for building more trails.

See attached flyer for details:

TRAIL BUILDING

Although we’ve been involved in trail building at at Hunua (see below) for some time, the club does not have a strong history in trail building with much of the trail development in the Auckland Region being carried out commercially (i.e. Woodhill) or ad-hoc/by MX users at places such as Riverhead. From 2010 this is going to change. Not only are we going to continue to develop the Hunua trails but we are also offering to help the guys up at Albany and take on an official Volunteer Care Agreement for the Arch Hill trails. Plus, thanks to the excellent submission by the club on the ARC Regional Parks Management Plan, we have been specifically written into the Plan for consultation and assistance with developing and building new trails in the numerous ARC parks around Auckland (pending of course what happens with the Super City). It is an exciting time for the club as we look to cement our position as the reference point for mountain biking in Auckland by official bodies that govern our parks and open spaces.

We’ll add to this page as we take on more trail building activities but for now, here are details on Hunua (2010 trial building schedule to be arranged) and Albany on the North Shore.

If you are interested in helping out trail building, contact the person detailed in the relevant bit below.

Hunua - Working Bees

As a user group of this beautiful Regional Park, it is important that we show we are keen on more trails. Our regular track working bees is one of the best ways of achieving this.

So please take a day or two off from your normal riding calendar to show the ARC that we mountain bikers are willing to help ourselves out. Good numbers at these Working Bees go a long way towards securing the support of the Councils of Auckland and will ensure continued and growing access to some great riding opportunities.

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Royal Albany Mountain Bike Trails – Working bees

To many of you, the knowledge that there are 17km of fully legal, tough, twisty singletrack on the North Shore will be a bit of a surprise! The trails are progressing at Albany with new tracks being formed and Massey University fully supporting the project but they do need a bit of input to get them just right and one guy has been building these for 5 years! It is about time he had a bit of help!!

So, they’ve establish monthly track building and maintenance days.  This will be the second Sunday of every month.

Its BYO pruning saws, spades and other trail tools and meet at 9am at the Cellphone Tower in the Royal Albany Tracks.  For those that dont know the way to the cell tower, meet at 8:45am at the closed gate on Bush Road across the road from Bushlands Park Drive.  Parking either at Bushlands Park Drive, or in the Eastern Massey Uni carpark.

Check it out on google maps here:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=102166044012676433047.000479b4cfebb9abde648&ll=-36.734963,174.703249&spn=0.006414,0.013937&t=h&z=17

For more info contact James on flocycles@xtra.co.nz.

As the club increases its trail building activities we shall apply for funding for purchasing trail building tools and gear and we’ll add more on trail building as we take on more sites.