Track Crew News - September 2008

"Mr. & Mrs." seems to be a hit and people are getting fitter by having to ride the Ground effect Grinder more often. The new changes to the exits of Young Pines and Slalom are for the future races just duck when you go under the Slalom Bridge.

The new alignments mean we don’t have to have the drafting gates anymore when the fast guys lap the tail enders.

Track Crew News - August 2008

The new track has a name: "Mr. & Mrs." It seems to be a big hit, plus its keeping people fitter riding up the Ground Effect Girder to ride it. We have none some major changes on the Tank Stand we hope this will enable it to better handle the traffic that it gets over the summer.

We haven’t lost our marbles by putting in a bridge at the Corner Shop Connection and changing Slalom and Young Pines exits, we have done this to stop the cross over’s happing in races. It takes 3 marshals to look after that one point and we still have riders going the wrong way. If it still happens in the future it will be the riders fault.

Track Crew News - July 2008

It wasn’t long ago that every body was moaning about the dust and tracks getting a hard time. We have had the odd tree down but overall all the system is in very good nick and has handled the rain

The new track of the top of the Ground Effect Grinder is now joined up to Young Pines. Take it easy at the bottom one of the dips jumps up and grabs you.

This track is being funded by Rotary and is going to be an important link in the 70 km Huka Challenge MTB race. We still have some other links to built so we can run this race, this event is very important to our long term maintenance funding as it will let us keep expanding the system, so make sure you tell people about it.