In the summer forestry will need to get back into the Maraetai block to log the last stand of pines on the western side of the block. It will take 4-6 weeks. We were hoping to have some form of access during that time just like we were hoping to…
WHITFORD IS CLOSED. If you ride there you will get caught by Forestry management camera’s and your details will be sent to the police. You put the whole club at risk by riding there. These people were in there on Sunday, by the harvesting site. Do you know them?
Massive thanks to New Zealand Community Trust for their super generous support of $20 000 towards our 2019 Maraetai rebuild project. Watch this space for updates.
Tunnel Vision – the top half is cleared so the whole track is good to ride. Part of the winter trail building plan is is to start this track from the container and give it a general tidy up. Sweet As – is all cleared, thanks to Mike and Jessie…
We are stoked to have one of our original sponsors, the NZ mountain bike clothing company Ground Effect back on board. If you’re in the market for some sweet new gear make sure you support the people that support us. They will be funding the rebuild of the track….Ground Effect!
This Sunday is the last day that you can use your 2018/2019 membership before it expires, If you have renewed your membership – good on you, if not – get onto it !!! To join the club go to: http://www.pcbc.co.nz/join-the-club/ Please note there will be 2-3 weeks lag time to receive your…
Tracks need clearing and lots of work needed by volunteers to get them open. Can you help? Please email the club pohutukawabike@gmail.com Thankyou. Maraetai Forest Tracks: Gone Burger: 2 Dead Cows, Loam Highway.. Nightmare: ( need a lot of work) Ground Zero, Nile, Ground Effect, Eastern Spice, Upper Tunnel Vision,…
Auckland Enduro Series Due to both forests being closed currently and the significant rebuild required when Maraetai opens we have had to make the hard decision to cancel Race 3 of the AES out our way. The committee are currently looking at options for holding race 3 elsewhere so keep…
Both the Whitford and Maraetai forests are currently closed so no riding/running/walking in there. Maraetai will be reopening soon…… PLEASE KEEP OUT UNTIL WE ARE ADVISED IT IS OPEN
For your reading. PCBC AGM 2018 Meeting Minutes – 30 October 2018 Annual report 2017_2018
Huge thanks to The Lion Foundation for their very generous donation of $10 000 towards the Maraetai Restoration Project. Along with our other generous funders and most importantly you membership subscriptions (keep them coming: no money-no tracks- no ride !!!) we've raised more than 100K this winter !!
and you’re very welcome Trailpro...Not a bad spot for winter! In the next 6 weeks we will be rebuilding the trails at Maraetai for the Pohutukawa Coast Bike Club. Pic courtesy @vl_shr @ Maraetai Beach
Auckland Council (AC) is understandably reluctant to get involved in projects on private land. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been turned down for funding for my backyard Kelly Slater wave pool. So we are super pumped that the Franklin Local Board (FLB) of AC recognises the importance of the Whitford forest in the physical, mental and social wellbeing of Aucklander’s and have come to the Maraetai Restoration Project party to the tune of $40 000!! Special thanks to Malcolm Bell and Angela Fulljames of the FLB, AC and Rose Ward of Parks, Sport and Recreation, AC for their help with this. As part of the funding agreement AC would like us to encourage more non-biking people into the forest. To facilitate this we have agreed to lower our annual subscriptions from next financial year for runners and walkers to $25 per person, $50 for a family. This will allow access to the forest roads and bike up-tracks but not to the bike down-tracks. They would also like us to get more young women into biking. PCBC has a pretty proud record of junior women excelling in biking so we’re cool with that!
On the track building side of things Greg and Richie's new track down to Comfortably Numb is finished and ready to rumble. It's a cracker. Cruisy Grade 3 if you’re just going for a dawdle, but if you’re in EWS Eddie Masters beast mode there’s lots of small jumps, step downs and step ups to trip you up big time so be careful the first few times. The TrailPro boys have started on the new Ground Effect-another winner winner chicken diner being served up there. Grenade has a new line half way down; it's always been grade 4, be on the case, roots and all, sort of track and the new line is more interesting and flows so you shouldn’t need to check it out first. Just pull the pin and ride.
