The Motatapu Valley, which the route crosses · ambo kangaroo, CC BY-SA 3.0
A one-way backcountry mountain-bike crossing through private high-country stations between Wanaka and Arrowtown, on land that is normally closed to the public. It runs alongside trail-running events and an e-bike ride on the same route.
Checked against the organiser’s official site on 29 September 2026. Dates, routes and entry conditions change — confirm on the official site before booking flights or accommodation. We are not the organiser and take no entries.
Four days and roughly 200 km of coastal singletrack, farm tracks and forest through the Margaret River region, with daily stages of 34–59 km. Not especially technical, and the format deliberately builds in the breweries and wineries the region is known for.
A community mountain-bike festival at Blue Derby built around a public enduro round of timed stages across the trail network, with a non-competitive Come & Try category alongside the graded fields. A downhill time trial and a billycart race run the same weekend. This is the one anyone can enter, as distinct from the professional World Cup rounds Derby has hosted.
A marathon mountain-bike weekend built on the singletrack of Rotorua's Whakarewarewa Forest, with distances from a short family loop up to the 175km Giant Miler. It draws thousands of riders and includes e-bike categories.