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Fellow pedal pushers and welcome to our first newsletter for 2016. First off a very BIG Happy New Year to you all and hope it has been kind so far. Secondly we would like to say a huge THANK YOU to all of you wonderful people who have signed up and supported us with purchasing your 2016 membership. Your membership goes a long way to ensuring the ongoing building and maintenance of our great trails so please ensure your tag is up to date for this current year. The boys (and girls.... watch out you dont want me chasing you down!!) will be out there checking tags, so make sure your's is clearly visible, Bruce can't ride very fast and has poor eyesight from a mispent youth!! Please help us out also by ensuring that the mates you are riding with are also tagged up.
Bike Taupo AGM Just a heads up in regards of our upcoming AGM so you can mark your diaries for the occasion, agenda to follow: Monday 15th February, 6pm upstairs at the BNZ bank - all welcome Hope to see you there. Until then, happy riding 🙂 Cheers, Melissa |
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Track Crew News Rotary ride
Great Lake Trail A few trees came down on W2K and Chinaman’s, but apart from that the trail is riding well. The track crew did a few days in the Western Bays before Christmas cleaning up the track and spraying. They have also been spraying the willows in the Chinaman’s wetland and preparing areas to plant out this winter. There is no quantitative indication as to the track use over the Christmas period but Kinloch looked busy with bikes all over the place.
Chad is modelling the TrailFund T shirt, you rock that Chad!! Track Crew Contact Details Email trackcrew@biketaupo.org.nz More info: http://www.biketaupo.org.nz/news/track-crew |
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 Kids Bike Taupo
Bertha the van and Cath have a lovely break over the holiday period, but are starting to get busier with holiday programme. Random Ratbags at 3.30pm for BMX on Mondays and then 3.30pm at Spark Trails in Spa Park on Tuesdays has started again too.
We are busy in the evenings with the Taupo District Council Our Neighbourhood Series. Please come and say 'Hello' if you see us at a reserve near you. Other community events are the Waitangi Day Celebration on Saturday 6 February in the Tongariro Domain. Whakaipo Lodge Concert Saturday 27 February. Wairakei Tourist Park promotion Saturday 2 April. Thank you to Mighty River Power for the $1,200 cash injection. This money will be used to take biking to the early childhood centres. We are concentrating on these younger ones so they are riding well before they get to school. We have bought some new little 18" BMX bikes with funding from the Alterno Foundation. The riders aged 6 to 9 ish are appreciating have a bike they fit well to go over the jumps. Thanks to all the families, schools and centres who support our Kids Bike Taupo programme Cath Olfield, Kids Bike Taupo kids@biketaupo.org.nz |
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Taupo Cycling Club
Taupo Cycle Club are pleased to announce the dates of the Summer Series 2016, Located at the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park. This year there will be a new format for registration and can be done online via the Club Website. This will require riders to be a Taupo Cycle Club member and payment for the series to be paid by all who ride. Follow the tabs on the website for registration under weekly rides and membership. We look forward to seeing you all there for an 8 week race series. As well as organising weekly rides like the Sunday Morning Social Ride, Tuesday Night Racing and Skills Session or Racing at the Velodrome, the club encourages entry into a variety of local, regional and international cycling events and you can check out the event calendar to find out more Keep up to date with everything cycling in the Lake Taupo region by subscribing to our eNewsletter, liking us on Facebook or checking out our Latest News page. Get in touch with Taupo Cycling Club to find out more! Any questions please e-mail secretary@taupocyclingclub.org.nz or barry@dbcon.co.nz
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Part of my role as administrator for Bike Taupo involves seeking out and securing funding for ongoing projects. We recently submitted an application for the Mitre 10 community renovation to build a downhill wall ride (example as per photo). This is going to be built on the downhill section of Tankstand. Unfortunately we were unsucessful in this particular application and will try other sources when they become avaliable. In the meantime we will be setting this project up on a crowd funding website called "give a little" so will let you know when that is up and running. This wall ride would be an awesome addition to the Park and we really would like to see it go ahead. Every bit helps to make that happen. If you know of any businesses who may be keen to sponsor a structure like this, please let us know so we can talk turkey. Lets do this, it would be very cool!!!
Some major improvements to the Bungy track, now sees this being an easier option when riding from town. The big grassy hill now has a switchback track winding its way to the top (as per photos, there was a comment on facebook that the digger driver looked "hot" so perhaps it was a sunny day!). A Big THANKS to the good buggers at Rotary for helping us out with these improvements. There will also be some track re-alignments coming to the Taylors Bluff section of the Rotary ride section to Huka Falls coming soon so watch this space. We have had loads of tourists riding over this track during the holidays.
Outback
We have recently received funding from the good buggers at Trailfund to upgrade the track to Waihaha hut and also continue the good work on another section of the Te Iringa track. The boys together with Carl Larson from the Hawkes Bay Mountain Bike Club recently did a rekkie of the situation, some photos attached. By all reports this is a great ride, but not so good after beer and pies aye Carl!!
Term 1 is completely booked, and many schools have missed out for not getting in quicker. It will be the first time at Playcentre, but many other early childhood centres like to see us regularly.
Taupo Mountain Bike Club
The format will be familiar to those returning competitors with the Pack and Pedal series consisting of a long (14-16k) and short (8-10k) course options sponsored by Pack and Pedal.
This year the selection process will be more in-depth to help ensure that the final 2016 squad are the kids who really want to excel and are willing to put in the time and effort required. Applicants will be required to race the Clubs Summer Series Long Course. After 3 rounds they will attend a skills session from which a wider training group will be selected. This group will be given advice on training and focussing toward the TMTBC Championships to be held on 10th April. From this event the final squad selections will be made.
Tuesday Night Racing - Starting Tuesday February 2nd
More Info: 
Ruapehu Express
Nominations for the Bike Wise NZ’s Favourite Places to Cycle awards have opened and you can help our region win by nominating your favourite local bike trail now!! (and you could win a $500 bike shop voucher for your efforts).
All you have to do is snap pictures of your shopping receipts to earn cash donations for Bike Taupo.
