New Zealand

The Belmont Area Mountain Biking Association (BAMBA) in Greater Wellington has recently completed a professional, machine re-build of the popular ‘Electric Avenue’ - orginally hand-built by volunteers back in 2017. Ground Effect’s Slush Fund stumped up $1750 to purchase a leaf blower to help keep the new track neat, tidy and flowing fast.

Back in 2020 the Golden Bay Mtb Club began an ambitious project connecting Takaka Hill Saddle with Upper Takaka. They have been hard at work ever since inching their way down the hill building the descending track which will form part of the Pikikirunga Trail.

The Christchurch Singletrack Club has been developing MTB trails in and around Christchurch for the past 20 plus years. The Ground Effect Slush Fund recently donated $2200 to fund a second e-barrow to make trail maintenance a lot more efficient at the Crocodile XC Mtb Park.

Taylors Mistake Bach Association in consultation with CCC Park Rangers have completed a whānau friendly loop track along the north side of the valley, winding its way through the trees above the car park.

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

Richard Goldsbury has tireless energy and enthusiasm for creating and maintaining trails around Canterbury. The Slush Fund has added a new hedge trimmer to the tool box for winter Port Hills trail maintenance.

The Alternative Vollie Collective are a bunch of Christchurch locals working hard to help keep the trails of Victoria Park and the Christchurch Adventure Park running smooth. The Slush Fund has dished our $2000 cash for a bunch of tools and a chainsaw to help keen the AVC volunteers’ keen.

The Central Wairarapa BMX Club have been busy rebuilding a historic relic from the birth of BMX glory days of the 1980s. A small band of volunteers have slogged away for nearly 5 years to rebuild the track on the outskirts of Masterton.

Spring 2023 rolled around and the Taylors Mistake Bach Association mustered up the Ground Effect crew and mates to sort out the drainage on Taylors Escape. The pictures tell the story.

Founded in 2013 World Off-road Riding Department is a youth mountain bike charity based in Wellington and Wānaka, Aotearoa providing amazing life changing term programmes and holiday camps for kids age 7-17 years old.

In 2023 Trails Wellington opened the first section Te Tuarā o Matairangi, the new Grade 4 flow and jumps trail on Matairangi (Mt Victoria). Trails Wellington work in partnership with Wellington Mtb Club, Mākara Peak Supporters and Brooklyn Trail Builders to maintain and create mtb trails around Wellington City.

The Kawatiri Nature Environment and Communities Trust (KNECT) and the Buller Cycling Club are establishing a spectrum of trails throughout the 1000 acre native bush clad hills of Gentle Annie, a special spot just north of Westport on the South Islands' West Coast.