Canterbury Trail Rides?

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Conway again next sunday...
Hope it's as good as last one
and a 50km loop.....
Must try and make it.... Just don't
do enough riding lately....



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I was told it was just bulldozed tracks. Sounded a bit boring and I thought of giving it a miss.
Tell us a bit about it Pete, It wouldn't take much to change my mind.

[pete-blen]

I was told it was just bulldozed tracks. Sounded a bit boring and I thought of giving it a miss.
Tell us a bit about it Pete, It wouldn't take much to change my mind.

Now yer have me wondering if it's a diffrent Conway ride?

I thought you done the last one... had the beach section
at the start... one part you could look down on the main Rd through the hundlees...
there was alot of bulldozed tracks..but not newly bulldozed...




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[pete-blen]

Shame it's not running like it should, but you'll sort it no doubt.
+1 what Pete said and it must have been a little of what you remembered, others told me there were some parts they remembered but not much. I did the two enduro deviations ( never crashed). At one point I could see the traffic on the hundalees !!!! Well I think it was. Anyway we had a great day with lots of variety and fantastic views.

Yer yer did.......... yer old dottery bugger yer memorys going...
only 6 months ago.... no hope for yer....

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Yer yer did.......... yer old dottery bugger yer memorys going...
only 6 months ago.... no hope for yer....

Haha it's not me thats a dottery old bugger.
That was "conway coast" trail ride, which was bloody awesome. Shame Pete.
I've never done this ride "conway hills. Someone we all know and trust did it last year (winter) and wasn't impressed. His words were "A long way to travel to ride on bulldozed tracks" And probably wouldnt do it again. He also wasn't impressed with the Enduro deviations.

[pete-blen]

Haha it's not me thats a dottery old bugger.
That was "conway coast" trail ride, which was bloody awesome. Shame Pete.
I've never done this ride "conway hills. Someone we all know and trust did it last year (winter) and wasn't impressed. His words were "A long way to travel to ride on bulldozed tracks" And probably wouldnt do it again. He also wasn't impressed with the Enduro deviations.

Ok so yer only half dottrey....

so it is a diffrent one......... now I'm wondering if it's worth it...

might hang out for the peaks ride then.... unless yer going to tell me thats no good...


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It's ok, we did it last year with the grandson on his TTR 50, he was six and coped well enough. It was wet and muddy, a lot of people arrived poorly prepared and struggled with lack of traction even though it was a lot of tracks it was an enjoyable day

[Deanzo]

I've done conway hills the past two years, yea it's a bit boring, that and my mate on his 450 just leaves me like Im standing still on this ride.
Big long easy (boring) climbs around the hills, with GREAT views!


Last year, at least it was covered in snow at the top, and that 10 mins was kind of cool.

[pete-blen]

It's ok, we did it last year with the grandson on his TTR 50, he was six and coped well enough. It was wet and muddy, a lot of people arrived poorly prepared and struggled with lack of traction even though it was a lot of tracks it was an enjoyable day

Now yer have me real worryed.... might have to clean the bike afterwards... ..prob 2 bikes....



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[Ayrtonsenna]

I've done conway hills the past two years, yea it's a bit boring, that and my mate on his 450 just leaves me like Im standing still on this ride.
Big long easy (boring) climbs around the hills, with GREAT views!


Last year, at least it was covered in snow at the top, and that 10 mins was kind of cool.

Yup.....I'm not going either.....boring..

[pete-blen]

sounds like I shouldn't bother either....

[Kickaha]

Me + about 5 others I ride with are heading up to it

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Me + about 5 others I ride with are heading up to it

Have fun, and we expect a full report with photos and storys to follow.

[Kickaha]

It wasn't the ride I've previously done, this one we turned left before the overbridge and went about 1km beside the railway tracks to the start, the last one I did years ago we started at the old Conway School out by the coast

40km loops and probably 90% farm tracks

I wasn't really feeling the love for it after loop one but when we sped it up a bit on loop 2 it became more fun, dropped it 25km in and broke the clutch which meant 15km riding back without it

It was an ok ride but I wouldn't drive that far to do it again







Might find some barkbusters before the next one

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Thanks for the photos and for what you thought of the track. Confirmed what I was told.
I might do the peaks trail ride on the 7th August and then dalethorpe on 21st. See how fit I'm feeling

[SVboy]

I enjoyed it, as a novice trail rider. A bit the same, I guess. The mate I was riding with did the enduro diversions and they made the ride for him. Great weather!