Slush Fund

The Mtb Trails Trust based in the top of Te Waipounamu is charged with ensuring tools and resources are available to look after existing trails as well as create new ones. The trust approached the Slush Fund for $700 to purchase an electric hedge trimmer for their new volunteer tool shed at St Arnaud.

The Golden Bay Mtb Club have been given the green light to build a grade three descending mtb trail in the scenic reserve on the mighty Takaka Hill. The club received $2000 from the Ground Effect Slush Fund to put towards more digger time on project.

The Kerikeri Mtb Club is busy constructing new trails in the White Hills Forest. The Ground Effect Slush Fund has donated $1600 for the purchase of new tools to keep the solid group of regular volunteer trail builders happy.

The Central West Trail has been researched and developed by volunteers to provide cyclists with a 400km countryside ride on the safest and quietest back roads in the Tablelands region of NSW.

A team of keen volunteers has been working hard to rediscover the Painkiller Track in Reefton. The Ground Effect Slush Fund stumped up the $1800 required to install two culverts.

The Ground Effect Slush Fund has put its name to a couple of the 13 prescribed trail routes at the Wairoa Gorge MTB Park, and donated $1000 cash to help the Nelson Mtb Club maintain and continuously improve the Wairoa Gorge trails.

The Ground Effect Slush Fund has hooked up the custodians of Lyttelton Mountain Bike Trails with some cash to purchase tools to help with trail maintenance and building efforts at Urumau.

Ground Effect's Slush Fund helps out with funding of materials to construct a Kauri Dieback Wash Station at the Coromandel Bike Park.

The Kaikoura Cycling Club completes the new 11km Kaiterau loop track on Mt Fyffe.

The Rotorua Trails Trust’s key project this year has been working on segments of a new 35km Grade 2 loop of Whakarewarewa Forest.

Fund raising has begun at Mountain Biking Otago to gravel the top section of Nicols Creek Switchback Track.

A group of keen Heathcote Valley mountain bikers are setting up a mtb skills' park in the valley.