South Island

The Golden Bay MTB Club with the help of an $1800 donation from the Ground Effect Slush Fund has established a trap line along the completed stage one section of the Pikikirunga Trail.

The Ground Effect Slush Fund puts its name to a couple of the 15 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 chainsaw to the tool box for spring Port Hills trail maintenance.

Due to the heavy rain event in July, the Kaiteriteri Mountain Bike Park took a real hit. The Ground Effect Slush Fund donated $2000 to sponsor the rebuild of the Badjelly Bridge.

The Southland Mtb Club recently purchased an e-barrow with a $2099 contribution from our Slush Fund. It has already been put to work, helping to make the maintenance side of things easier on the trails at Sandy Point.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The construction of the 12 km Lake Brunner Scenic Trail is now over the half way mark. The track is making its way through pristine native forest on the western shore of the lake. Coastwide Films Ltd has put together a neat wee film on the project.