The Pike 29 Memorial Track was built by mountain bikers for mountain bikers. It is the first ever dedicated mountain bike track to pass through a national park in New Zealand and is the country’s first ever “Great Ride”. As well as an MTB trail, it accommodates walkers and forms the 10th addition to New Zealand’s “Great Walks” trail system and is the first to be built in a generation.

Passing through the rugged and storm battered Paparoa Mountains on New Zealand’s West Coast, it connects with the Paparoa Track and descends down to the Pike River Mine which was the scene of the 2010 mining disaster which killed 29 men.

From the highest point on the track there is an uninterrupted and flowing 8.5km descent down a well formed track to the Pike River at its base. Not a single peddle needs to be put in the whole way down.

This video is a sneak preview by the trail builders showing off our creation with the first ever ride through of the track. The video also documents a few of the secret features that we snuck in during the build.

Building the Pike 29 Memorial Track video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfNc…

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Pike Hit List:
1. No Peddle Challenge (7.8km)
2. Ridge Wall Ride (6.2km)
3. Small Jump (4.5km)
4. Bigger Jump (4.5km)
5. Small Hip (4.3km)
6. Fuchsia Gully & Small Wall Ride (3.8km)
7. Small Hip (3.5km)
8. Rock Roll (3.3km)
9. Hip Jump (3.1km)
10. Berm to Berm Jump (2.7km)
11. No Peddle Challenge (2.6km)
12. Double Berm Wall Ride (3.2km)
14. Wall Ride (2km)
15. Rock Roll (1.9km)
16. No Brake Challenge (1.8km)

More Information: Article about building the track: https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/west-co…

Article about making the video: https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/west-co…

Trail proposal document: https://dcon01mstr0c21wprod.azurewebs…

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The Pike 29 Memorial Track was built as a living memorial to the men who died in the 2010 Pike mining disaster. It was sculpted into the landscape by passionate mountain bikers and track builders and is a world-class and first-of-its-kind mountain bike track which doubles and New Zealand’s 10th Great Walk. This video shows some of the exploits of the team who built it called the Bush Walruses. MTB track designer and digger operator Milty Coultas, explosives specialist and track shaper Tom Woodward, and tree fellers Logan and Felix. We cut the track through the bush over three long years while exposed, battered and frost bitten by the elements on the West Coast. It was the most extreme construction site that any of us had worked at. This video featured in the 2020 New Zealand Mountain Film Festival.

For track building services follow Milty on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/graded_earth/

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See my Cook Islands video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c15uq…

More Information: Article about building the track: https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/west-co…

Article about making the video: https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/west-co… #Pike29 #Paparoa #MTB

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