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Loose Chain is now OPEN!

Greg has been extremely busy working on building our newest trail called Loose Chain. This is a friendly grade 2 single track mountain biking trail that parallels a stream as it gently rolls down the fall line. The trail has a series of small rolls and corners, and is the perfect trail for a variety of riders to enjoy.Our goal with creating Loose Chain was having a trail that encourages progression in novice riders but also keep the more experienced riders entertained - can you double a section ...

2023 is the year to spread the word about the Uenuku Pines MTB Park!

The goal of this summer is to spread the word and share the stoke of riding the trails at the Uenuku Pines MTB Park.The mountain biking scene and community is growing around Ruapehu and so is the demand for more adrenaline based, single track trails - exactly the type of trails the Ruapehu Mountain Biking Club love and want to ride!Over the past 6 months the club has been working hard to maintain existing trails that were not effected by the 2022 logging and build new mountain bike trails, which...

August 2022

We are working on developing the Ruapehu Mountain Bike Club website in preparation for the upcoming bike season and are adding new features and pages throughout the website. Along with creating our monthly club's blog posts we have now introduced an online store! This is in the early stages and we have started out with adding our Limited Edition Ruapehu Mountain Bike Club t-shirts - grab yours today while stocks last! We will continue to develop our website over upcoming months and start to...

July 2022

It's been a quiet month for the RMTBC presence, July has been a month with a lot of extremely wet weather too! But we're working on our "administration to do list" behind the scenes in preparation for the Spring and Summer months that are fast approaching! As we've mentioned before and for those who attended our AGM in May, our main focus is to continue working on trails at the Pines and developing our social rides that became popular last summer. As a small club, we are reaching out for support...

June 2022

Hey everyone! Winter is fast approaching and Mt. Ruapehu is receiving it's first set of big snow storms for the winter! For a lot of us that means skiing and snowboarding season is about to begin, however, that definitely does not mean it's time to put the mountain bikes away or slow down on the trail rebuild efforts!The RMTBC has been working on the final completion stages of the new trail called Boost and will be soon completing the addition to Rakehead which will serve as one of the main acce...