Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

Night Riders!

We’re not discussing red rear lights, pretty much anything will suffice these days, and unless you’re riding backwards, you’ll not damage yourself if it’s not perfect daylight illumination out the back of your bike. If you have to choose one front light, choose one for your helmet, so you can see where you’re looking, and

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Winter trail conditions

Riding in the wet can ruin the tracks, so to avoid contributing to any damage, make sure to check the track reports that identifies what trails are open for riding. We now have links to the Christchurch and Craigieburn Trails on our website.

New Track Status Page

Ben Young has been developing a new status page concept for the Christchurch Port Hills tracks. It pulls the data in every hour or so and updates his site and also sends a Tweet out if a track status or ranger comment has been modified. If tracks are closed/avoid there are a couple of blocks at the

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