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Written by Pete Mc
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 |
Track Crew News - June 2009
Wairakei
The new start to the Outback is now finished with the new crossings on the Lane way and a road crossing near the pipe gate to get back onto the established part of Outback.
The logging of Switch Back area is now finished and Brendon and Carwyn have set out a new downhill and uphill to go from the top of Grinder down to the bottom of the old Switch Back then back up to the Mr & Mrs entry at top of Buzzard.
There will also be an exit at the bottom of 60k hill.
We had a working bee on this track on Sun 21st and thanks to all who turned up. Good progress was made.
Pete Manning is working on a change on Walters Wiggles to take out the twists and turns down on the flat. Thanks also to the people that turned out to help him.
James is still beavering away on the Coles Killer extention.
Have been doing a few minor maintenance jobs on the Mr & Mrs, filling in a few braking bumps and smoothing out some of the berms.
Everyone will be noticing the progress on the Golf Course predator fence.
Other Tracks
Not much else is happening on the other tracks.Got 8
rats in the traps on W2K the other day. Thanks to Contact [Tim] and
TDC [Darren] for the posts, timber and other materials they have let us
have just recently.
Don’t forget to
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if you see a problem when you are riding around.
The Track Crew
Track of the Month:
New start to outback [needs traffic to pack it down ]. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 23 June 2009 )
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Written by Thomas Schwarz
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
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Tamati's Tiki Tour visits Taupo
On the quest to search out to find the top "One Less Car on the Road' Town, the TVNZ crew had a freezing start of the day here in Taupo.
Thank you to everyone who turned up and showed the rest of NZ how Taupo locals are doing their bit for the environment and keeping cars off the road.
Watch the full video here.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 June 2009 )
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Written by Pete M
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 |
Track Crew News - May 2009
W2K
We have now put W2K to bed and any future work is now maintenance, as
we are not on the track so much can people let us know, if any trees are
down or any slips happened.
We have trouble getting around all the tracks nowadays (we are not to old - just too many tracks !) and it saves us a lot of
time if we know what gear we need.
Wairakei
We are working on the new Outback track at the moment which is going to
have two new bridges over Slalom and go up and around the big rock in
the Young Pines. Plus Pete Manning has just about completed building the
new single track along the top road, all of these changes have made a
big difference to the Outback track as it now much more interesting to
ride and its longer as well.
The bridge has been ripped out of the Drone as part of the new alignments so be carefully on a night ride.
The Contact boys are still working away on the new track going from
Bumble Bee to Outwards Goods and further its getting closer by the day
and when finished is going to be about 3 kms long so watch the web site
for more details.
Down hillers are ripping down The Buddha plus have got together and open up Coles Killer again which is great to see.
The logging crew have just about finished in the old Switch Back area.
The hill has been logged and they are clearing it for planting at the
moment.
That’s the next track to be build as soon as the logging is
finished.
The Track Crew
Track of the Month:
Tunnel Track - You fell guilty if you don’t do it !
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 May 2009 )
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Written by Len Malcolm
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Thursday, 07 May 2009 |
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Top Gear Cycles Craters Classic, Wairakei Forest
Sunday 19 July 2009
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9.00 am Registration for a 10.00 am start.
Enter the 18 km Fun Course or the 36 km Classic Course.
Get into it! These are worthy courses, mainly singletrack on a great all-weather pumic surface.
There will be certificates for all placegetters, and thanks to event sponsor Top Gear Cycles, there will be some great spot prizes.
Are you up for it?
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 20 June 2009 )
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