Slush Fund

Bike Taupo was given the green light by the Ministry of Tourism to complete the 71km Lake Cycle Track on the western shores of Lake Taupo. The 100km track is part of the NZ Cycle Trail Nga Haerenga. 

A small group of volunteers are always busy creating and restoring trails in the Wellington suburb of Miramar on Mapuia Reserve. They have made huge progress and completed three sections of trail known as Conviction, Bootleg and Jail Brake.

Whitianga Bike Club has been toiling away developing trails since 2004 on land leased to them by the Thames Coromandel District Council. The Slush Fund started helping the club out in 2005 with dosh.

The Townsville Rockwheelers have signed a 10 year permit with the local water authority for access to the Lake Ross Storage area. An initial 15km loop of new singletrack and existing fire road is nearing completion, with more in the pipeline.

The Wainuiomata phenomenon continues... In the early years the Ground Effect Slush Fund helped out with funds for tools and wheelbarrows to get the party started.

The New Zealand Conservation Authority in 2011 approved mountain bike access up the Poulter Valley in Arthur's Pass National Park, after an initial three-year trial period.

The Kaiteriteri Mountain Bike Park is now a well established community resource in Golden Bay. Most of the benched trails are wide, easy to intermediate-grade tracks, complemented by narrower hand-benched single-track.

The Urumau Reserve above Lyttelton is the proud owner of a sweet selection of fun singletrack.

The Geraldine Lions and Cycling Club have developed 20km track on Department of Conservation land along the Orari River.

McKenzie Country locals got together in 2008 to develop the The Lake Tekapo Regional Park on the south east edge of Lake Tekapo. Located within existing forest 1km from town, the intention was to foster a range of activities including mountain biking. 

The Eurobodalla Cycling Club maintain the Maulbrooks Mtb Tracks, a terrific marked set of tracks in Mogo State Forest, 15km from Batemans Bay, NSW.

The Dunghutti Sport and Recreation Indigenous Corporation and the Kempsey Macleay Off Road Cyclists formed a partnership in 2012 to extend the local trail network around Kempsey, north of Port Macquarie, NSW.