Nelson Rideouts - Where next?

[Willdat?]

Me too, albeit 4-6 weeks away. My mates wore out 2 sets of brake pads each, finished the trip metal-on-metal.

I've got brand new ones on, was hoping to get away with just a spare single pair...ouch that'll be $120 of brake pads for less than 80 km of riding...I need some cheaper hobbies!

[Padmei]

I've got brand new ones on, was hoping to get away with just a spare single pair...ouch that'll be $120 of brake pads for less than 80 km of riding...I need some cheaper hobbies!

T7 for cheap brake pads

From the sounds of it the track is getting pretty rooted. Might be better when it dries out a bit. 140 bikes went thru one weekend 4 weeks ago.
I did it about 93 with cantilever brakes!! It hadn't even registered that you'd run out of brakes - I mean you could quite happily get 2 years without changing them normally.
Anyway I was wondering what all the steel wool was around the hub when I noticed the rim... Then the tyre carcass split- got all the way out with a bulging tube.
Make sure you take a spare hanger too. There's always one that breaks ona trip in the middle of nowhere. On 2 different trips thru there this year that I know of, guys have had to do it single speed because of that.

Have fun tho

[Willdat?]

T7 for cheap brake pads

From the sounds of it the track is getting pretty rooted. Might be better when it dries out a bit. 140 bikes went thru one weekend 4 weeks ago.
I did it about 93 with cantilever brakes!! It hadn't even registered that you'd run out of brakes - I mean you could quite happily get 2 years without changing them normally.
Anyway I was wondering what all the steel wool was around the hub when I noticed the rim... Then the tyre carcass split- got all the way out with a bulging tube.
Make sure you take a spare hanger too. There's always one that breaks ona trip in the middle of nowhere. On 2 different trips thru there this year that I know of, guys have had to do it single speed because of that.

Have fun tho

My Tektro iO Mechanical discs are too weird for t7 $29 a pair is the best I can find...I guess it's good to know that it is that bad as I was hoping that it was DOC being cautious! I'm heading through mid-week (bloody teachers!) so hopefully a bit quieter. Sounds like a spare folding tyre or two amongst the group is going to be a winner .

[Padmei]

My Tektro iO Mechanical discs are too weird for t7 $29 a pair is the best I can find...I guess it's good to know that it is that bad as I was hoping that it was DOC being cautious! I'm heading through mid-week (bloody teachers!) so hopefully a bit quieter. Sounds like a spare folding tyre or two amongst the group is going to be a winner .

Both Golden Bay & Nelson MTB clubs are recommending riding in & out from the same way-ie not going all the way thru due to the damage done
http://www.nelsonmountainbikeclub.org.nz/

Wasn't TektroiO an eighties electronica band?

[Willdat?]

Both Golden Bay & Nelson MTB clubs are recommending riding in & out from the same way-ie not going all the way thru due to the damage done

Bugger we've got flights booked and paid for from Karamea -> Takaka already plus huts booked, so right through it'll have to be! Will take your word for the 80s band, looks like they may have diversified into brakes in the norties

[warewolf]

My Tektro iO Mechanical discs are too weird for t7 $29 a pair is the best I can find

try bicycle.co.nz or wiggle.co.uk or chainreactioncycles.com.

[warewolf]

Bugger we've got flights booked and paid for from Karamea -> Takaka already plus huts booked,

My mates rode south from Collingwood to Karamea for the night, then back the next day. A one-way trip will require half the brake pads.

As for the amount of use... well if you deny access for 15 years to a popular ride and then only temporarily allow access only in the worst season for damage... it's hardly surprising it's copping a hammering. So many people are wanting to do it for fear the trial will not result in permanent access being returned. Despite the muddy conditions, in that article DOC say the track's no worse off than heavy use by trampers.

[NordieBoy]

Bit of carnage at the crosscountry today

[topo]

Pics, pics, pics common nordie we're waiting!

[NordieBoy]

Pics, pics, pics common nordie we're waiting!

Oh all-right...

[NordieBoy]

Still all-right...







Or did you want the good shots?

Of others?

[warewolf]

That is one race where you seriously needed your shit together... in some ways glad I wasn't there, but the adventurous spirit is gutted I wasn't there

[Woodman]

XC looks cool gotta try that one day. No not on the klr.


Went for a wee hoon this arvo up supplejack road and did a few of the slippery sidetracks. never been up there before and there is a whole lotta exploring to do yet. There is a pic here that shows a track that I didn't get time to go down but it heads towards Rabbit Island? and looks promising

Very uneventful ride, but it was a good ride and its always good to go somewhere new, but when i got home I noticed a hole in my front guard. Has this happened to any of you guys cos its a first for me.Didn't notice anything and it must have taken a hell of a velocity to smash a hole clean through like that, unless someone was taking potshots at me.

Anyway here are the pics.

[Crim]

taken a hell of a velocity to smash a hole clean through like that, unless someone was taking potshots at me

Think it was a finger mate - look carefully and you can just about make it out

Seriously though - whatever did that would have made a hell of a mess of a body part I reckon if it hit

[topo]

Or did you want the good shots?

Of others?

Oh hell yes we want the good ones!