Come out and join the club for an introduction day to the trails at Araheke MTB Park. There will be guided rides and basic MTB skills sections where you can get familiar with the trails and practice essentials like braking, cornering, assents/descents and body...
Sunday Rides
The Whanganui Mountain Bike Club organises rides most Sundays. The rides vary somewhat in experience and fitness level, but are generally suitable for beginners. The club members share transport and help each other out in case of mechanical failure or other mishap. On...
Working bee options
Dear Club members, Working bees There are regular options for working bees for those of you who are able to contribute to the upkeep and improvement of our trail network. We have a number of trail pixies who regularly help us to all get out and enjoy our tracks. With...
Update on Hyltons Pit MTB park – September 2020
Great stuff is happening in Hylton with the new jump park progressing in the "pit" thanks to Arlo and his dad Gary and their band of helpers. An interesting feature is a couple of telephone poles sticking out of the ground at...
Lismore Forest Shuttle Days – Cancelled for August
DUE TO COVID-19 LEVEL 2 RESTRICTIONS, WE AS A CLUB ARE UNFORTUNATELY CANCELLING THIS MONTHS SHUTTLE DAY TO KEEP EVERYONE SAFE. PLEASE KEEP AN EYE ON FACEBOOK AND WEBSITE FOR THE NEXT SHUTTLE DAY SCHEDULED FOR 13TH SEPTEMBER 2020. BE SAFE, BE KIND & RIDE Lismore...
Lismore forest reopened for Club members
Lismore mountain bike park has been closed to the club for 2 years due to logging and all trails need work to make them rideable. Some trails will, unfortunately, be permanently closed. Notification will be made as the trails become rideable and an “Open” put next to...
New Squeeze bars for Pauri
This week new squeeze bars were installed at the back of the Pauri area of the Araheke MTB tracks. A big thank you to all those who made this happen - a first for Whanganui! Thank you to Haig Elgar who made them, to Derek Johnson for installing them with a bit of help...
Whanganui Dirt Warrioresses – Tuesday evening rides
Hi all For all those women out there who would like to join a group of like-minded mountain biking enthusiasts, go to Michaella Laird (Mac)'s Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/WhanganuiDirtWarrioresses/ where she advertises weekly rides on a Tuesday evening,...
Kiwi kids bike races 2019
Whanganui's annual Kiwi Kids' Bike Race series is back! Last year more than 100 kids turned up at the St Johns Hill grounds to take part in the first of the three bike-race events held in Whanganui. For the past five years the Whanganui Mountain Biking Club has run...
Hyltons Pit Open for Riding
Good News! A professionally built track the ''Bikeshed Shredder'' (900m) is open for riding. The Shredder, lower PD and other tracks offers more than 5km of excellent riding at Hylton Pit. Happy Riding!