Karapoti - offroad road-trip par excellence Whilst the Karapoti Classic mountain bike race is an annual chance to ride this route through the Akatarawa mountains North of Wellington, it is open year round for the adventurous mountain biker or trail bike rider. You want to see what NZ was like 150 years ago? On your bike! There are plenty of websites to help you find the way - take a map and ideally, someone who has ridden it before. Best memory ever? Riding it in 3 1/2 hours one Saturday morning with Dave Robertson - me on my new GT LTS and him on a tricked up Proflex with dual suspension. And we just did it like it was a ride to the shop. Years later, puffing around in nearly 6 hours with cramp and exhaustion, I reflected on the disgraceful human process of aging. Me that is, not Dave!
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As tourism replaces travel, the special journeys are becoming harder to find. This Group celebrates the obscure and hard to find pleasures of NZ's back roads and routes. Mode of travel? Don't care - two wheels, four wheels, or on foot.
Join us if you're willing to share and celebrate a secret road trip that avoids anything with the words 'State Highway' in it.
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