If your in the windy city, and you've never ridden a Black Diamond (NZ Grade 5) ... mmmm this probably shouldn't be your 1st one... Vertigo... Now there's an easy G5.... except maybe for that roll under the bridge... and the stepped zigzag (though it looks like that has been worn into more of a trench... Maybe I should do that one again.... but it also is a path less trodden... so you'll need a wingman (or woman) to laugh at you when you fall off or walk through a feature.... maybe not that one either... Red Rocks old exit... Actually easy... apart from the rocky slope at the end... and the gorse... and the remoteness.... and the man eating sheep (oh wait that's me eating dinner after... did I mention the climb to get there... 10k from the exit... 5 if you go up the Tip Track (Takes me an hour pushing my concrete DH bike)... and the fairly mediocre run down getting ther (There's potential for Wellington's longest unbroken (almost) janky run from Radome to Redrocks I made a KML of)... ok so maybe not that one either... Perhaps the "Wall of Death"... Hey I did that on a big frame seat up Milazo steel frame Crazy Horse with 2nd hand 1" (because of the bent stanchions) Rockshox... but it's remote... and short... (I suggest starting at the top of "Town Belt Ridge" and at least having a look at the almost hidden "Karatane Jumps"... soooo... ok the easiest G5 but a little lacklustre coming in at about 180 meters long... V, TTS, Damiens... in a word.. "Tree Roots" ok in 2 words "Lots of tree roots".. and possibility of a poke to the eye on your way tumbling to the bottom... ok not them... which leaves my choice... MrX and on through Deliverance. Thanks to Bob you can divert past the (really G6) feature at the top, put a foot down over a couple of the nasties on the way down to Deliverance Valley and (ok maybe walk the Pigs Tail) The view is nothing like anything else in Wellington.. but again.. Take a wingman.. And the track back up (Salvation) is short enough that you get there in about 30 mins and long enough that's it's not too steep for the energy challenged like myself. (Look for videos for the entrance to MrX.. it's over the 1st rise North from Wrights Hill Parade ground.)
If your in the windy city, and you've never ridden a Black Diamond (NZ Grade 5) ...
mmmm this probably shouldn't be your 1st one...
Vertigo... Now there's an easy G5.... except maybe for that roll under the bridge... and the stepped zigzag (though it looks like that has been worn into more of a trench... Maybe I should do that one again.... but it also is a path less trodden... so you'll need a wingman (or woman) to laugh at you when you fall off or walk through a feature....
maybe not that one either...
Red Rocks old exit... Actually easy... apart from the rocky slope at the end... and the gorse... and the remoteness.... and the man eating sheep (oh wait that's me eating dinner after...
did I mention the climb to get there... 10k from the exit... 5 if you go up the Tip Track (Takes me an hour pushing my concrete DH bike)... and the fairly mediocre run down getting ther (There's potential for Wellington's longest unbroken (almost) janky run from Radome to Redrocks I made a KML of)...
ok so maybe not that one either...
Perhaps the "Wall of Death"... Hey I did that on a big frame seat up Milazo steel frame Crazy Horse with 2nd hand 1" (because of the bent stanchions) Rockshox... but it's remote... and short...
(I suggest starting at the top of "Town Belt Ridge" and at least having a look at the almost hidden "Karatane Jumps"...
soooo... ok the easiest G5 but a little lacklustre coming in at about 180 meters long...
V, TTS, Damiens... in a word.. "Tree Roots" ok in 2 words "Lots of tree roots".. and possibility of a poke to the eye on your way tumbling to the bottom... ok not them...
which leaves my choice... MrX and on through Deliverance.
Thanks to Bob you can divert past the (really G6) feature at the top, put a foot down over a couple of the nasties on the way down to Deliverance Valley and (ok maybe walk the Pigs Tail)
The view is nothing like anything else in Wellington.. but again.. Take a wingman.. And the track back up (Salvation) is short enough that you get there in about 30 mins and long enough that's it's not too steep for the energy challenged like myself.
(Look for videos for the entrance to MrX.. it's over the 1st rise North from Wrights Hill Parade ground.)