Snowstorm's effects delay bike park's start
Snowstorm's effects delay bike park's start
Queenstown's biggest snowstorm in 50 years, has forced the Queenstown Bike Park on Ben Lomond to delay opening for the 2011-12 season.
Mountain Biking
Funding needed to realise biking potential
Funding needed to realise biking potential
Developments during the past three years have shown Queenstown has the potential to be the mountain-biking capital of the southern hemisphere, but without much needed funding, growth could quickly stall.
Discounts for bikers
Discounts for bikers
Local retailers recognising the worth of mountainbiking to the district will be offering discount deals to club members this coming season.
Trails may have new name
Trails may have new name
The cycle trails on Ben Lomond Recreational Reserve may be known collectively as the Queenstown Bike Park after tomorrow's meeting of the Queenstown Lakes District Council's community services committee.
Biking park has great potential
Biking park has great potential
Queenstown had a "globally unique" asset in the Ben Lomond Forest mountain bike park which, in its inaugural season, has been hailed a "fantastic success".
Biker critical of safety plans
Biker critical of safety plans
A mountain-biker who tore his scrotum cycling on Queenstown's new downhill track says mountainbike trails - like skifields - need highly trained, qualified and funded emergency patrols, The Southland Times reported yesterday.
Keeping top riders going
Keeping top riders going
Christchurch-born bike mechanic Shaun Kirton took his mountain biking skills halfway around the world before bringing them to Queenstown, where he is gearing up for the inaugural Queenstown Bike Festival.
Mountain-biking seal of approval
Mountain-biking seal of approval
Queenstown has been given the seal of approval by international mountain-biking family the Athertons, of the United Kingdom.
Breaking out - Flagstaff
Breaking out - Flagstaff
This is an excellent walk on a well-maintained track only a short drive from the city.
Volunteers to monitor tracks
Volunteers to monitor tracks
St John Queenstown team manager Alana Reid says having a volunteer patrol team with no first aid certification to monitor mountain bike tracks this summer, will be "better than having no presence at all".
Bike tracks proposal approved
Bike tracks proposal approved
The Queenstown Lakes District Council this week approved a proposal by Skyline Enterprises to build and maintain world-class mountain-bike tracks within the Ben Lomond Reserve.
Riding 'The Death Road'
Riding 'The Death Road'
The route between Bolivian capital La Paz and popular weekend getaway Coroico has been dubbed the World's Most Dangerous Road, but Kate Chapman, of NZPA, did not let that stop her tackling it on a mountain bike.
'Love of dirt' draws 90 riders
'Love of dirt' draws 90 riders
Competitors at the start-line of the Queenstown Mountain Bike Club's 7 X 7 endurance cross-country mountain biking event at the weekend.
The Queenstown Mountain Bike Club's second annual 7 X 7 endurance cross-country mountainbike race was a "great cohesion of people, their bikes and a love for dirt", club president Lance Brown said.
The event was a seven-hour single-track race over trails built and maintained by the club.