Pirongia MTB Park. Why have I never been here before?
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- I check out Pirongia mountain bike park on my KTM Prowler E bike on a wet winter day. To my surprise even in the wet it is a great place to ride with a range of tracks and some beautiful native bush.
Loved that “lens wipe” line. Classic
Nice video..great ride ...keep safe riding by yourself...get yourself a Garmin watch with automatic fall notification. .or similar
Must do that. Thanks for watching.
Glad I ain't the only one that can't read how much battery is remaining, other than that Bosch is awesome- head down to Wellington and smash out some rides.
Pirongia is only 35mins from home and i still havnt been there yet haha will def go check it out. Im normally up temiro its closer for me but been meaning to try pirongia.
Definitely come back in the summer. Awesome ride. Love to see the Army on Skills.
I am so worried we won't be leaving Auckland for awhile but keen to return especially on a nice day.
@@bestdayevermtb2 hopefully we can get it eliminated. No fun if not all of us are enjoying it!
The best part of ebikes is the steep technical hill climbs
I do enjoy the challenge of a techy climb.
Nice one Lance!! Get yourself a muc off pressure washer!!! Bloody awesome for cleaning the EBike 🙂🤘🏻
Even in the wet it looked like some great track with lots of variety, fun!
Have always overlooked Pirongia, would be a good stop when driving down south.
I really liked it. Super keen to go again on a dry day.
That is an awesome Trail. I live in Boston, US and that is the type of terrain i ride on. except you need to add about 20 tons of rock. the Mendon forest i believe is rated mostly Black with 2 or 3 Blues. I use to be DH rider only but since getting my Levo i converted to trails riding and tech uphill rides. it opened up a whole new world for me. Great job.
What are rocks? Don't have many of those where I ride. That track I rode uphill would have been almost unrideable on a normal bike but great fun on the e bike.
@@bestdayevermtb2 I wish I have trail like that where I live. You guys look like you had a blast. Awesome video. Keep it coming. Happy and safe shredding.
Yessss!!! I told you it would be good!!
You were right.
It's a great park hey! I was very pleasantly surprised how fun it was when I rode. Def keen to visit again some day 😀
I want to go back when covid allows.
Enjoyed the vid,good to see genuine credit given where due to your guide( some youtuber mtb vids all about "the star" lol😂) ,you've had the ktm for a wee while now,you planning any upgrades to it (even if it's just bling).
Does a kiwi flag stem cap count?
@@bestdayevermtb2oh aye that counts!
Great Trail Man, Awesome forest looks like jurasik park, wach out for the Raptors tough 🤠
You are not wrong about the forest. You can not beat riding in old established native bush.
@@bestdayevermtb2 That's why I love riding Gloworm+Phil's Gold at Te Miro (another one of my favourite places, along with Pirongia)
I totally agree about the small print! I think the ebike makers need to realize we over-50's are probably the majority of ebike buyers so wouldn't it be nice to have options to make the figures bigger😂
Must admit I hate wearing glasses. Went from great vision to blind as a bat in a very short time. Now I just grizzle about how small the font is on everything. Thanks for watching.
Hey Lance, on my kiox, I have the battery charge programmed in its own screen next to my speedo screen. A quick flick of the control buttons with my left thumb and there it is. Shows the charge remaining in big numbers and for this 65 y.o.can see it clearly on the go. Really enjoy your videos here in Aus, especially the ones with your ebike mates.
I’ve taken to wearing clear safety glasses with the small magnification panel in the bottom. Works well.
Adhesive magnification film might work if you cut a small piece and stick it on. You can get fisheye dots too.
Sounds interesting and a bit confusing.
Like you, I didn't take that "grade 5 hiker/bike" 'feral track' trail the whole way when I tried it. It's not on the Pirongia MTB trail map, so I'm not sure where it ends up. Perhaps I'll try exploring it again this coming Summer...
FYI, next time, to end your ride, try riding from the car park up the road to the next junction up, and come back down "Easy As". It's an easy trail (as its name implies), but fun and very pretty native bush. It's a great 'dessert' to end your ride.
Thanks Ross. Am very keen to check the tracks out more. Wanted to do more that day but time was running out and I had to get back to Auckland. My mission is to ride that track to the end. I have to know where it goes.
@@bestdayevermtb2 FYI, I got a (partial) answer to my question about this trail when I asked about it on the Pirongia MTB Facebook page just over a year ago:
"This is a hike a bike track in native bush. It's basically a walking track with the supple jack trimmed back. It's a hoot in summer and a challenge in winter. There's a sign at the current end of the cleaned up section for riding at around 500m vertically. The walking track carries on and tops out on one of the peaks on Pirongia at around 800m."
@@finlayson It is on. Project for summer.
damn im here early ;)
Great trails, I'll have to go ride the place, should be fun, I get lost in a brown paper beg. But my sort of trails.
It is actually pretty straight forward. I kind of knew I was not on the correct track but curiosity got the better of me.
@@bestdayevermtb2 I'd like to check that trail out too, looks fun.
I like riding new MTB parks, I just back into it and got a trek rail 7. I m from katikati so plenty within 2 hours, just finding the time and then lockdown. Usually ride redwoods.
FYI, you can download a trail map at pirongiamtb.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Pirongia_Guide.pdf
Well done to Josh for showing Lance around!
He was really good and patient when I started playing with cameras.
Hey Lance Battery % Display can be user changed in the Kiox settings. I customised one of my two split screens pages by getting rid of cadence & replacing it with Battery %. The screen I use most only has Battery % & Range so its easy as to see. Also add camera lanyard to the Kiox to secure it to the bars if not screwed on, that way you don’t have to search for it in the forest after a stack.
Hi Cameron Thanks very much for that I will see if I can do that. I have mine screwed in place so it can't jump off.
@@bestdayevermtb2 Another tip Lance for you & your Bosch mates. Get the chain ring retaining nut tension checked (Left hand thread) as they have a habit of coming loose. Then put a white permanent marker dot on the nut & one opposite on the chainring so it’s easy to see if the nut is coming loose.
@@cameronmclaren9873 thanks for that.
The trails look really good there. You can see a massive difference, in the video, between Josh's normal Trek bike and your KTM when it comes to traction, the KTM was just sticking to ground! Or maybe it was just your superior MTB skills!
Either that or my weight forcing the bike into the ground
@@bestdayevermtb2 aha let's say it your skills 👊
Never be there looks like it needs to be on the list of places to visit
I got to the car park it was raining. I honestly thought about just going home. So glad I didn't as it was good fun.
Alchemy is super gnarly in the wet coz it’s basically a rooty track all the way down, thats probably why they adviced against it.
Will try it next visit. May look at a group ride from Auckland if we are ever allowed to leave.
@@bestdayevermtb2 Unfortunately by the looks of it, I think auckland will be walled off from the rest of the country so we may never be able to leave this great city ever again /s
@@jhie4699 😭😭😭
Yes, Alchemy's difficult for me to ride, even when it's dry. It'd be easier for you, but no way I'd go down there when it's wet.
Yah jinxed it (should’ve never rode”lockdown”) ☺️
I miss you. 😪
Such a bummer lockdown !
Looks good, always great to check out and see new places great effort, starting to see the e-bike dark side a bit, sorta a worry, maybe aim just getting old and time to join the Dads army legion of e-bikers of doom and curses!
Have you ridden Rata Ridge trail, ? between Mt Lowry and Wainuiomata. If not I think you and the boys would really enjoy it if you like this stuff,most used to be a real challenge, haven’t ridden it for quite a few years now so probably no longer expert only, it’s really an adventure Id highly recommend though if ya down in Windy Welly! 🤘
Ps had to laugh about ya Bosch comments, ya have to be old enough to get an e-bike in the first place and then ya too old to see the computer numbers anyways, ironic, lol, but hey I hear ya, first world problems! in 2021 should be a heads up display in your googles, 😜🤙
I really want to check out some of NZ's best riding spots. I am working on plans to be less tied down with work. Covid I must admit has depressed me no end, Haven't been for ride in three weeks now and can't see an end insight. Might go look at my back yard track again.
Hi Lance
Could you please let me know what type of drone do you use thanks
Love the shows
Keep it up
I have the skydio 2. I bought it because it is the best tracking drone. Saying that it still can't fly through the trees.
shame you didn't get down the skills track lot of jumps for you there especially the lower half it's one of those trails you say to yourself 10 times just one more. Great vid Cheers 👍🏻.
Lots to check out on my next visit. Now Dad's Army have e bikes I think this will make a great day trip.
Great video Lance. Have you got a 31klm speed limit on your E-Bike motors in NZ compared to our 25klm limit in OZ?
Yes we have 31km/hr limit. Drives me nuts. Have ridden with 25km/hr but you might as well get off and walk. I personally see no reason for the restriction. You can't do 25km/hr uphill and downhill I can do 25km/hr on a kids tricycle. As you can see I hate the speed restriction.
@@bestdayevermtb2 Haha I was starting to get that impression about half way through your reply.
Lockdown rides r the best ever
Were you riding this in level 4?
Clearly not. I assume you watched the video. I drove from Auckland, stopped at a bike shop and met someone I didn't know who had been at a working bee that morning. Safe to say filmed before lockdown.
Lockdown level four riding to be done close to home only I thought was the instruction given by Auntie Jacinda.