New Plymouth Mountain Bikers - old website

New website for New Plymouth Mountain Bikers

2010-10-28T15:54:00.005+13:00

We are in the process of moving long-term content from this blogspot based website to a new website;

Soon the www.taranakimtb.co.nz address will also be redirected to the www.npmtb.co.nz site.

All new events, races etc will be put up on the new site:

Photos & Report from Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day

2010-10-08T06:20:00.003+13:00

Quite possibly the first New Zealand event to celebrate IMBA (International Mountain Bicycling Association) Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day, the New Plymouth event was deemed a fantastic success, and set the bar high for future years.

Coinciding beautifully with the first sunny warm day after weeks (months) of rain, the event drew more than 30 kids and their parents to the underutilized Huatoki Domain park in one of the city’s outer suburbs. The event, organised by the non-profit New Plymouth Mountain Bikers club, offered free bike safety checks, skill and confidence building clinics, fun rides, and even a race around an undulating 1km cross-country course.

The youngest rider was only 4 years of age, but that didn’t deter him or any of the other participants from having a great day out on their mountain bikes, conquering such challenges as a limbo, slalom course and transporting a water bottle from one spot to another. These skills were then put into a real-world mountain biking situation on a fun ride, which introduced the young riders to natural terrain like hills, roots and mud. The day finished with a fun race, where everyone was a winner and took a prize home.

The event was made possible with the support of the New Plymouth District Council, who provided key sponsorship to help the club promote the event to a broad audience, IMBA, who created the event and supported it with a range of promotional material, and local bike shops and cycling organisations who got in behind the event with promotion and prizes in some cases. it also gained significant exposure through the local media channels. It looks set to become a regular fixture in the New Plymouth Mountain Bikers’ calendar.

More photos from the event on facebook

Reminder re Working Bee Saturday 6th November - Mangamahoe

2010-09-14T23:05:00.006+12:00

The next of the trail development working bees is at Mangamahoe:

Saturday 6th November 2010, 10 am – 3 pm.

Generally it's a good idea to wear suitable footwear, bring along some gloves, food and water.

No tools are supplied, so please bring something useful for trail development work; a shovel or spade etc.

See you there!

Colson Road XC race results from Sunday:

2010-08-30T12:25:00.003+12:00

Results from yesterday:

17 Mountainbikers stuck in mud and rain at Colson, Club President laughs all the way to the podium....

Yes, it was MTB racing, 'naki style. I probably would've called off the race if there had been lightning and thunder (and/or the time-keepers had gone on strike! thanks Janet and Kylee). Obviuosly there's enough hard core locals to enjoy a mud bath and race all in one. Congrats to those who turned up to see how much mud a bike can take before it stops. Did I mention the hailstorm in the middle of the race? Also smart thinking by those boys that decide one gear was all that was needed, maybe just one more needed though if you wanted to catch Shane?

This concludes the Winter Series and watch out as I hear a lot of new ideas are coming for when things are less wet and the club has been to Taupo. Thanks for coming along and joining in the fun, it's great to see there's a good lot of people back on their bikes and giving it a good go.

Race #	Name	Class	Laps	Finish time	Class Place	Overall Place
7	Lawson Freeman	OM	5	01:07:25	1	2
24	Ross Valintine	OM	5	01:11:10	2	3
16	Merv Hunger	OM	5	01:13:00	3	4
1	Matt Goodsell	OM	4	01:03:27	4	7
23	Paul Muter	OM	4	01:06:13	5	8
14	Simon Winstanley	OM	4	01:07:14	6	9
19	Wayne Harrison	OM	4	01:16:32	7	10
18	Brett Tanner	OM	4	01:18:15	8	11
12	Ryan Tuuta	OM	3	01:04:05	9	15
27	Jeremy Katheny	OM	1	00:23:00	10	17

21	Shane Wilson	VM	5	01:07:04	1	1
8	Carl Whittleston	VM	5	01:14:05	2	5
2	Paul Plumtree	VM	5	01:15:05	3	6
5	Tony Powell	VM	4	01:20:05	4	12
17	Darren Mason	VM	3	01:03:07	5	13
6	Phil Armstrong	VM	3	00:53:00	6	14

3	Fiona Plumtree	VW	3	01:09:09	1	16

Night race results

2010-08-27T14:26:00.007+12:00

The first of the spring night races was held on Tuesday under a full moon. 16 riders showed up to try their hand at some short lap night racing.

A glitch with the track taping let some have a couple of adventurous early laps.

Thanks to Ron Parkes for coming out while not well and putting up his lights for the start/finish area. Also to Sandra for helping with the registration and lap counting while the track taping got sorted.

See you all at the next one on the 7th September.

Results:

7 Laps:

N Sutton

1:02:54

A Patterson

1:03:07

C Simpson

1:04:54

H Lobb

1:06:19

G McBeth

1:07:06

M Young

1:07:55

R Valintine

1:10:09

6 Laps:

B Simpson

1:02:26

P Muter

1:03:00

J Dixon

1:03:08

M Goodsell

1:08:25

D Lobb

1:09:56

5 Laps:

S Valintine

1:04:41

4 Laps:

J Baxter

0:51:03

K Obrien

1:03:38

3 Laps:

J Rotley

0:45:55

Gorges to Sea Cycle Series - Rangitikei

2010-08-15T15:41:00.006+12:00

Gorges to Sea Cycle Series:

5 Sept, 3 Oct & 7 Nov 2010

Download your entry form now to register: here.

The first trail in the Rangitikei Gorges to Sea Cycle Series was launched in November 2009.

This year they have introduced more:

Trail 2 - Pemberton on Sunday 5 September,
Trail 3 - Mt Curl on Sunday 3 October,
Trail 4 - Tangimoana on Sunday 7 November.

See http://rangitikei.com/cycleways-2 for more information.

Results from the 2nd 1 hour XC race at Mangamahoe

2010-08-02T13:34:00.007+12:00

21 takers for rainy cold and slippery ride on Sunday! Rain arrived just for the race briefing and didn't really stop.

Cheers to those who understand MTBing enough to know the reason you have mud tyres. For those who turned around at the carpark at 9:45, we know who you are!!!

A downloadable PDF file with all the lap times:

Detailed race results here.

See you all at the next one on the 29th.

Race #	Name	Class	LAPS	Finish time	Class Place	Overall Place
7	Darry Stevens	OM	7	01:06:29	1	1
33	Nick Sutton	OM	7	01:10:27	2	2
6	Chris Wischnowsky	OM	6	01:02:05	3	4
12	Lawson Freeman	OM	6	01:02:56	4	5
28	Matt Goodsell	OM	6	01:05:13	5	8
27	Ross Valintine	OM	6	01:05:33	6	9
8	Nathan Hull	OM	6	01:06:40	7	10
17	Shay Taylor	OM	5	01:00:00	8	11
34	Vincent Seyb	OM	5	01:02:17	9	12
16	Kerry Reardon	OM	5	01:06:29	10	14
32	Wayne Harrison	OM	5	01:06:40	11	15
26	Paul Muter	OM	4	00:56:00	12	18
14	Nigel Swan	OM	3	00:55:00	13	21

30	Catie Lennox	OW	5	01:03:42	1	13

24	Graeme McBeth	VM	6	01:00:54	1	3
18	Brent Manning	VM	6	01:03:30	2	6
2	Paul Plumtree	VM	6	01:04:29	3	7
19	Tony Power	VM	5	00:00:00	4	16
31	Rob Goedye	VM	4	00:51:00	5	17
23	Mark Bradshaw	VM	3	00:50:00	6	20

5	Fiona Plumtree	VW	4	01:03:30	1	19

Results from the 1st 1 hour XC race at Colson Road

2010-07-19T09:09:00.013+12:00

There was some great results that happened over the weekend:

All the XC tracks at Mangamahoe have been cleared of the tree pruning/thinning debris left by the NPDC contractors. This has been a monumental effort by Craig and the track crew and those who have put in the time over the past weeks clearing the existing tracks for all now to ride.

27 riders turned up for the one hour race at Colson Road on Sunday morning. The race results are below:

Race #	Name	Class	LAPS	Finish time	Class Place	Overall Place
36	Scott Valintine	JM	7	01:00:49	1	16
1	Nathan Whittleston	JM	5	01:02:54	2	26

8	Darry Stevens	OM	10	01:05:51	1	1
18	Tony Brownrigg	OM	9	01:01:27	2	2
5	Chris Wischnowsky	OM	9	01:05:27	3	4
14	Lawson Freeman	OM	9	01:07:06	4	6
30	Mark Gordon	OM	9	01:07:30	5	7
2	Matt Goodsell	OM	9	01:07:59	6	9
35	Ross Valintine	OM	8	01:03:33	7	11
38	Mark Duynhoven	OM	8	01:05:02	8	14
32	Paul Muter	OM	8	01:06:55	9	15
28	Wayne Harrison	OM	7	01:06:39	10	20

37	Jenn O'Conner	OW	8	00:00:42	1	10
24	Emma Coplestone	OW	3

27	Graeme McBeth	VM	9	01:04:25	1	3
26	Shane Wilson	VM	9	01:05:41	2	5
17	Alan De Lautour	VM	9	01:07:47	3	8
6	Paul Plumtree	VM	8	01:03:47	4	12
16	Ron Parkes	VM	8	01:03:55	5	13
31	Adrian Lobb	VM	7	01:01:52	6	17
33	Sean Froude	VM	7	01:03:22	7	18
23	Graeme Lindup	VM	7	01:03:51	8	19
3	Brett Tanner	VM	6	01:01:46	9	22
12	Darren Mason	VM	6	01:04:39	10	24

7	Fiona Plumtree	VW	7	01:09:30	1	21
34	Colleen Froude	VW	6	01:03:37	2	23
19	Karen O'Brien	VW	6	01:06:22	3	25

A downloadable PDF file with all the lap times:

Detailed race results here.

MTB skills clinics and the Race School in New Plymouth Winter/Spring 2010

2010-07-10T20:36:00.013+12:00

Club members Andrew Patterson and Jenn O'Connor are running some MTB technique and skills training sessions at Mangamahoe in the coming weeks.

Dates are:

Saturday 31st July
Sunday 8th August
Sunday 15th August

This is a great chance for you to improve your off-road riding skills through being with two local riders who have a lot of experience working with XC riders internationally. Sessions limited to 15 participants so be in quick!

More details on their website at the link below:

MTB Skills Sessions

They have a reduced price for club members which is another incentive for those whose membership has lapsed to join up ASAP. Details on how to do so are on the right of the website in the area labelled "Contact + Membership".

Andy and Jenn are aiming to build up the MTB literacy within the region which they then can follow up on with a Race School academy which they will deliver in the Spring. With this they hope to educate and support the MTB racers within the community to both enjoy XC racing and progress to a high national level and more long term, an international level.

There is a link in their website (here) for you to let them know you are interested in going along.

Upcoming Events - Updated

2010-07-07T10:04:00.003+12:00

Upcoming events!

Racing - yes time to tune up your racing bike - NOTE venue swap from what was previously advertised!:

Sunday 1st August: Mangamahoe

Registration from: 9:30 am Start time: 10:00 am

XC race will be for one hour. There will be grades for the juniors similar to the TSSSA XC race as well as the usual ones for the Senior women and men. All welcome;

Entry fees:

Club members: Juniors $3 Senior $5

Non members: Juniors $5 Senior $10

Other events being planned:

A couple of night races during the week, most likely a couple of Wednesdays in August and early September before the Taupo Day Night Thriller event.
Some short course races also during the week after daylight saving kicks in late September.
Some handicap XC races, timing yet to be determined.
Another DH event when the weather is a bit drier!

Taupo Day Night Thriller trip

2010-06-29T12:57:00.008+12:00

It's nearly that time again for the Taupo Day Night Thriller.

So if your keen to go let us know, we want as many mountain bikers from the Naki as we can get. Last year was great, so let's make this year even better. If you need a ride let us know, so we can help you find a ride.

Ride co-ordination, contact Shane, phone 06 753 7389 - evenings

The club has reserved some accommodation at the Taupo Top10 Holiday Park which next door to the race venue, Spa Park. But we need to pay a deposit early next week; 2 units, one sleeping 4 and one sleeping 6 have been reserved. Cost per head for a bed = $116 for the two nights.

Another cheaper option is at the Blackcurrant Backpackers where it is $50 for two nights in a 7 person dorm. This is closer to town.

If you would like to take a bed(s) at either of these, you need to contact Sandra ASAP and at the latest by Sunday 4th July:

Contact details: phone: 021 102 2047

Club member in action - 5 hour race over the weekend

2010-06-24T23:06:00.012+12:00

Despite the rain and wet track the first Crankit Cycles Santoft Sizzler run by the Manawatu Mountain Bike club was a resounding success with 57 Teams and 124 competitors slugging it out around the 6.5 km course.

Full report here: Race report

NP Mountain Bikers club member Thomas Lindup (shown on the right in his fashionable glory during the race) came first in the solo men by a lap.

Full results: Race results

2010 AGM documents

2010-06-17T13:56:00.008+12:00

Documents from the 2010 AGM including the minutes and the revised constitution can now be downloaded from the sidebar labelled "Club Documents".

These documents including the revised constitution are now being processed by the Companies Office and the Charities Commission. They have been submitted to these govt agencies as part of the requirements of being an incorporated society and a registered charity. The revised constitution has yet to be approved by the Companies Office but notice should be received within a couple of weeks.

Mangamahoe update: tree thinning

2010-06-08T21:41:00.001+12:00

The trees around the front and mid trails at Lake Mangamahoe will be getting thinned over the next month or so. As a result some tracks will be closed for a short period of time and there may be branches on the trails.

Please respect any closed trails and stay tuned for upcoming working bee action to clear the fallen branches...

N Sutton	1:02:54
A Patterson	1:03:07
C Simpson	1:04:54
H Lobb	1:06:19
G McBeth	1:07:06
M Young	1:07:55
R Valintine	1:10:09

B Simpson	1:02:26
P Muter	1:03:00
J Dixon	1:03:08
M Goodsell	1:08:25
D Lobb	1:09:56