Hey guys,

Well the winter here in Christchurch is wet and cold, but there is not even enough snow on the hill to make the skiing very good. I wish I had the time and money to fly to Germany and come riding with you at the moment!!

So with no skiing and the trails too wet to ride my bike I have been spending a lot of time building mountain bike tracks!!

Well done on the racing, keep rocking on!

Zane

@ zane: good to hear you are well!
come on, just do it: come to europe and join us
for our epic 9 day ride in the alps in the first week
of september!
Would be great to have you here!

Wolfgang

I did have quite some fun ...

here is one more ...

bergwolf wrote: here is one more ...

thats a trail!!
its INSANE! I wanna have a go!!

at least on a trail like that you wouldnt get people complaining that you are cutting it up by riding in the wet

bergwolf wrote: @ zane: good to hear you are well!
come on, just do it: come to europe and join us
for our epic 9 day ride in the alps in the first week
of september!
Would be great to have you here!

Wolfgang

I would love too!! It would be wonderful to get back to some of the fantastic riding in the alps for 9 days of summertime and to escape the cold and wet here!! However i have a new job, and have only been doing it for 3 months... so it might have to be next year by the time I have saved some money and have some holiday time!!

Perhaps next year!

st james walkway near lewis pass, it takes you rite into the heart of the southin alps, but its not opin to bikeing people still go up ther tho, mabe a 2day ride

sherdforlife wrote: st james walkway near lewis pass, it takes you rite into the heart of the southin alps, but its not opin to bikeing people still go up ther tho, mabe a 2day ride

Idiot!

Read some of the thread before commenting!! These guys already came and rode a bunch of great trails and are now back in Germany!!

Suggesting that people go and ride the St James is idiotic, it is specifically a walking track, and large parts of it would not be very ridable (although I think you could get round it in a day by bike).

Suggesting that people ride tracks that are designated by DOC as walking tracks could undermine the current relationship that trail access people are building with DOC. These are the people who are working to get us more trails to ride like the Heaphy and Baron flat in Kahurangi National Park. Stay off the walking tracks! Especially popular trails like St James!!

well, almost ...
It's about time I dig out this thread again. Exactly a year ago Silvia and me had the
pleasure to ride with some of you on excellent NZ Singletracks.
This year we are sending over more riders from Munich: Ellen and Michaela, Nicole and Philip.
Both are on their way to New Zealand, carrying their Mountainbikes, and would love to share
one or the other classic NZ singletrack with you.

merry christmas from the cold part of the world

Silvia and Wolfgang

we still owed you some photos from last years trip ...

Great montage

yes we are on the way, heading off to nz on sunday. me (ellen) and michaela and of course we would love to see some of the beautiful tracks too. actually, this is not the first time that i am in new zealand but there still are some place i have never been, some tracks i have never ridden before.

our plans so far are:
1st jan arrival auckland, go to bethells beach to see a friend
4th jan woodhill forest
5th jan cormandel (any ideas?)
7th jan 42 traverse (ist it worth going there?)
10th jan rimutaka incline (my first biketour ever in '88)
12th jan kaikoura/hanmer
14th jan queen charlotte
16th jan trail close to abel tasman (i forgot the name...)
19th jan port hills, christchurch
22nd jan leave chch

any suggestions, tracks we shoudn't miss on the way? we'd love to hear from you. or someone wou would like to join us, would have fun to show us his/her trails?

all the best for 2008. see you in your beautiful country

ellen

Hi Ellen

We can show you around the port hills trail when you arrive

Looks like a fun trip!

ellen_muenchen wrote:

...
our plans so far are:
1st jan arrival auckland, go to bethells beach to see a friend
4th jan woodhill forest
5th jan cormandel (any ideas?)
7th jan 42 traverse (ist it worth going there?)
10th jan rimutaka incline (my first biketour ever in '88)
12th jan kaikoura/hanmer
14th jan queen charlotte
16th jan trail close to abel tasman (i forgot the name...)

<<== RAMEKA!!

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