We list our club events and rides here and only those other events we particularly want to encourage our members to do. Send us details of any event you think should be included.
For all other events please see The VORB Events Calendar.

FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH
Working Party
9am at the top of Sainsbury road, with tools, food, plenty of fluids and enthusiasm for trail-building. Create the dream trails you'd love to ride on our own home mountain. Then, when it becomes a world famous MTB venue, hosting the World Champs, you can say you were there at the beginning.

EVERY THURSDAY
Sainsbury Ride ON OUR OWN TRAILS
Leave at 6pm from the pub in Pirongia Village OR skip the uphill roadie section and drive to the top of Sainsbury road and meet there at 6.30pm. Explore the new trails, enjoy the bird life and the views from the mountainside. Charge down the hill again for a cool beer afterwards. Lights needed over winter months.

LAST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH
Notorious Ngutunui 53k Ride with Beginners Easier Options
Meet at Ngutunui School at 9.30am Everyone welcome. Big hills, so you need to be fit.
WARNING! Weather dangerously changeable even in mid-summer so always take protective gear. Also food-bars and plenty of fluids. (No shops en route) We stop to eat half way.
Route: leave the school, ride up the Pekanui (tarseal) to the crossroads at the top, turn right into Pirongia West Rd (gravel) which takes you along a high mountain ridge, through the bush and all the way down the mountainside to Oparau, stop to re-fuel at the intersection with Okupata rd, ride up Okupata Rd (gravel) back to the crossroads and then ride back down the Pekanui to the school. If it is raining we stop at the haybarn at the bottom of the big hill instead.
Do this ride once per month and watch what happens to your fitness!
Glorious views of Mts Ngarauhoe, Ruapehu and Taranaki on clear days. Also Kawhia harbour looks great from way up there on the mountainside. Pot luck on who turns up – maybe lots – maybe nobody. We usually stop off at the cafe in Pirongia afterwards so bring coffee money. Any questions? Phone Tui 8252008
Beginner's THREE Easier Options:

1. You can do a slightly easier version by driving up the Pekanui and leaving your car at the crossroads there instead of at the school. This eliminates the first uphill, the last downhill, and also most tarseal from the ride. What’s left is mainly gravel road.
2. OR provided we have a support vehicle available, capable of carrying a bike or two, it could take some younger or less fit riders to the top of the first hill, then follow them as they ride along the high ridge and the big downhill and the riverside section at the bottom (or any part thereof) and pick them up at whatever point their energy runs out. This way they get to do all the really scenic bits without the long grinding hills which can be so offputting for beginners. And every time they do it they can try to get a little further than they got the time before, so its a great way for them to measure their own progress towards super-fitness.
3. OR you can just leave your car at the cross-roads at the top and do a simple out and back along Pirongia West Road. About 6 or 7 kms out will give you a nice little scenic 15k ride on gently rolling gravel terrain with bush surrounds and beautiful lookouts here and there.