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leeman
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 Posted: Sun 6th Jan 2:40pm Post subject: Whats The Whangamata Mountain Biking Like? |
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I found out there are mountain biking tracks in the Tairua Forest at whanga. I went to the information center and got a 1 month biking permit and map for $10 but didn't have time to go there. Has any one else been there? Whats it like?
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leeman
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Here is what the map that they give you looks like its pretty parc it just made me more confused about where to go 
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AarowNZ
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| Posted: Sun 6th Jan 3:56pm Post subject: |
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I've rode there for a bit, a few good tracks, better than I expected.
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leeman
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| Posted: Sun 6th Jan 4:44pm Post subject: |
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| AarowNZ wrote: | | I've rode there for a bit, a few good tracks, better than I expected. |
Oh awesome  How long ago was that?
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AarowNZ
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Feburary last year.
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NzO
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Aparently there's an awesome set of bmx type dj's around there somewhere, but they've become rather overgrown. Don't know the legality of it all, but they sound pretty knarly.
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AllyBallyBee
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| Posted: Wed 9th Jan 1:33pm Post subject: |
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Casey went to the bmx jumps last week while I went looking at some beach totty, I mean reported on the surf boats.
PM him if you want to know what he thought.
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KieranC
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went for a ride with a guy from there the other day he said there are heaps of trails from the mx riders that used to go up there (before they go banned) and a cool little loop out to an old gold mine and the local bike shop is pretty behind the mountainbiking in the area
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tylerkirk
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I went up there in the summer. the map isnt much help apart from telling you a few landmarks and where the forest is. The trailhead if you can call it that is at the hut (top end of causeway road) Ive found a few tracks to the left and right of causeway and a bunch down below. Pretty decent single track although it may be short and suprisingly un overgrown.
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