Kerikeri  MTB Club Newsletter

June 2018

Hope you have all paid your subs for 2018/19............

1. Ride Schedule

Regular Rides

• Tuesday night rides – 5:30pm depart gravel pit Inlet Road.  Lights needed.  All welcome.
• Sundays 2:00pm – club members / families ride Waitangi Park.  Loose arrangement. Nothing formal organised.  Make up own groups.

July

Working Bee Jocks Drop / Deliverance – Sun Jul 1 10:00am

We are having a Club track maintenance day. The aim of this day is to clear Jocks Drop track to make it rideable again and some Maintenance on Deliverance. Meet at the Inlet rd carpark for 10am. We will be using our forest permitted vehicles to get to Jocks drop. Please bring hand tools for clearing gorse and grass, spades racks and digging equipment as well. You can also ride out and lend a hand at any stage during the day as there should be extra tools available or you can load your tools on the vehicle and ride in

Richard 021 386 177

Midwinter Enduro – Waitangi Forest – Sun 15 July 10:00am start

4 Stage Grade 3 or less tracks 3hrs to complete
8 Stage Grade 4 or less tracks 4 hrs to complete
This is a Strava timed event so riders will need this APP on their smart phones for timing purposes.
Riders will need to be completely self-sufficient. A map of trails will be give at registration.
Junior riders will need to be capable of navigating themselves around the Kerikeri forest or compete with a Parent or guardian.
This event is timed on Strava and as such will be more about the riding than the exact time.
We are asking for a gold coin donation for the BBQ at the end.

Richard 021 386 177

Midwinter social ride - Okaihau to Horeke Pub. Sun  July 22 10:30am

Meet Okaihau Main Street - Lunch at Pub.

This ride a repeat of last years legendary outing.....

Approx 22km, mainly downhill on great cycle trail to Horeke Pub for hot soup. Shuttle for drivers back up to Okaihou to get cars

Suitable for all including kids (who can ride 20km)

Ride leader Graeme 027 4372 972

2. Adventure Film Festival – Friday June 29

The club has combined again with Waipapa Rotary and is putting on another Adventure Film Festival on June 29.

Full details including TICKETS on www.keriadventurefilm.com.

Club members will get special preference - the early bird prices of $20 per adult & $15 per child no matter when you buy BUT make sure you put in the comments field you are a KK MTB Club member

3. Waitangi Forest – Logging Information - IMPORTANT

Harvesting in the Waitangi Crown Forest Licence is now scheduled to commence during the last week of June ( this the Kerikeri end of the forest – not the bike park end)

• The Douglas Logging operations will commence on Horn Road (Marker 9 Te Wairoa Road) and then progress to Diesel and Croak Roads.
• The Douglas crew will be operating in the CFL through to September.  In August/September another crew (Wise on Wood) will be returning to the Endowment Forest for harvesting on Te Wairoa Road near No.6 & Rosella Roads, and then moving to the CFL (Furness Road) to operate through to November.
• All trucks will be entering and exiting via the Bledisloe gate, and will be using the one-way Te Puke/Bledisloe circuit.
• Metalling operations have commenced in the forest; this will include machines operating on the Te Puke/Bledisloe circuit – to allow for the safe delivery of metal, there will be a need to have the metal trucks periodically travel against the one-way circuit on Te Puke Road.  When this is in effect signs will be in place advising of the two-way traffic.  This change will only be in effect for metal trucks during these metalling operations, and will not apply to any other vehicle traffic.

4. Event Reports

Urban Rogaine Sunday 10 June

With extensive logging occurring in the Waitangi Forest and the tracks wet and slippery under winter conditions it was decided to try something different – an urban rogaine!

This event used Kerikeri / Waipapa / Kerikeri Inlet area, with control points scattered from Waitotara Road Waipapa to the bottom of Reinga Road on the Kerikeri Inlet.  Many of the high scoring controls were in difficult to access reserves.  Very good turn out . Entrants ranged from hard core mountain bikers to mums with kids on their bikes.  Prizes were weighted towards the kids but winners were:

3 hour event

• Overall                 Team Zikovich followed by Team Cassells
• Females               Team Snog
• Juniors                 Team Excalibur
• Old Fellas            Team Coopers Beach

1 hour event

• Overall                 Team Emolon
• Juniors                 Team Turbo

Thanks to sponsors; Hunter Cycles, Apichek Honey, Edmonds Rd Winery

Thanks to President Craig for using his place as base.

5. Club General

a)    New Members

Welcome to :

• Charles Barnard
• Christian & Wesley Burniston
• Callum Garlick
• John Leaf
• Andrew Magon
• Steve McDonald
• Iggy Rose-Yon
• Kim Taylor
• Paul Varney

We hope you enjoy the clubs activities!

The club posts regular updates, reports and activities on Facebook – much more timely info than the monthly newsletter....

Recent posts avail on Home page of club website www.kerikerimtbclub.co.nz if you not a Facebook user

Check it out!

Any questions?

Ideas for a club ride or activity?

• graeme3008@gmail.com

Article added: Tuesday 19 June 2018