Welcome to the Waipa Mountain Bike Club
The Waipa Mountain Bike Club was formed in 2008. Our goal has always been to promote mountain biking opportunities in the Waipa area and from the beginning this has always centred on building tracks on Mt Pirongia.
Thanks to a lot of hard work, much of it done by our inaugural president Brendan Haigh, we gained permission from the Waipa District Council to start building tracks in a 300 hectare block of forestry land on Sainsbury Road, just out of Pirongia. For more on this, see our Sainsbury Road page.
Thanks to a lot of hard work, much of it done by our inaugural president Brendan Haigh, we gained permission from the Waipa District Council to start building tracks in a 300 hectare block of forestry land on Sainsbury Road, just out of Pirongia. For more on this, see our Sainsbury Road page.
However the club is not just about track building, from the start it has been a way for people to meet other bikers to ride with. The club organises rides to places such as Rotorua and Taupo roughly every month or two (usually less often in the winter) and there are usually club members at mountain bike events in Hamilton, Rotorua or Taupo.
Thursday night is club night, when we meet at the pub in Pirongia around 8pm. Most of the time, we'll be riding beforehand from about 6 to 6.30. If you're keen to ride, best drop us a line to make sure we'll be there.
