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A Big Year for Thames Mountain Bike Club
Following our AGM on 9 March 2026, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on what our club has achieved together over the 12 months leading up to this date. It’s been a big year of trail building, community engagement, and conservation — made possible by the dedication of our volunteers and supporters. Here’s a snapshot of what we achieved over the past year: 1,000+ volunteer hours contributed to trail building, maintenance, and conservation work. Trail development and upgrade
Thames MTB
Mar 112 min read


There’s a new line in the dirt up at the Hotoritori Trails Park....
— The Screeching Kākā is now open. After just ticking over 100 hours of build time, this trail has come together mostly the old-fashioned way — by hand — with our little Cormidi loader helping out by clearing pine needles and shifting dirt and tools around the hill. Many of those hours started early, heading into the forest in the dark and getting to work right around daybreak. That early morning time in the bush is actually how the trail got its name. The resident Kākā's ar
Thames MTB
Mar 111 min read


Another Big Step Forward on the Karaka Trail!
We’re stoked to share that another major stage of the Karaka Trail upgrade is now complete! Over the past few weeks, we’ve finished 1.1km of trail working back from the Karaka/Waiotahi intersection toward the Red Cliffs. The original goal was 1.4km, but with $40,000 raised (short of the $59,000 needed), we pushed ahead and upgraded as much as we could — leaving just 300m still to tackle in the future. This section had some pretty gnarly old slips and overgrown, narrow benchin
Thames MTB
Mar 101 min read


$25K We Care Community Trust grant now approved
Great news folks, our Thames MTB club has been granted $25,000 from We Care Community Trust towards our Karaka trail upgrade project we...
Thames MTB
Sep 26, 20251 min read


TMBC gets a new machine
CHECK THIS OUT We are super stoked to announce the TMBC has purchased a brand new machine to help us with our trail maintenance. A...
Thames MTB
Apr 6, 20251 min read


TMBC celebrates another milestone
"TMBC celebrates another milestone, this time with our new set of AT220 traps on the Waiotahi Track. We installed them just 7 months ago,...
Thames MTB
Mar 27, 20251 min read


Check out our new machine!
We have some fantastic news, TMBC has a new machine to help us with our trail work. A massive thank you to Pub Charity Limited for...
Thames MTB
Oct 18, 20241 min read


Karaka track gets some pre-summer love
Our Karaka Track working bee today got almost all the way up to the first bridge with one team and our 2nd team smashed out most of the...
Thames MTB
Sep 13, 20241 min read


Hotoritori MTB trails have a mew trail addition…….The New “Easy Up” Trail Now Open!
The much-anticipated “Easy Up” trail is officially open! This new trail was designed to give riders a climb trail with a bit more...
Thames MTB
Aug 16, 20241 min read


Pyper’s Peak Trail Upgraded
Pyper’s Peak trail up in the Hotoritori mtb trails area in the Kauaeranga valley has undergone a reasonable upgrade! We’ve scraped back...
Thames MTB
Aug 16, 20241 min read


TMBC Skills training week
TMBC ran bike skills weeks at Matatoki and Puriri schools teaching the kids (and some adults) how to ride safely and learn new bike...
Thames MTB
Aug 16, 20241 min read


August 24 Trapping Update
First up we have been going about 13 weeks and have knocked out 116 pests, 11 mustelids, and the rest rats, so a significant impact on...
Thames MTB
Aug 16, 20241 min read


BIG BIKE FILM NIGHT
Once again the annual "Big Bike Film Night" held in June was a great evening of short films from around the world and NZ with some really...
Thames MTB
Aug 16, 20241 min read


Hotoritori wooden wall ride now open
Great news, our wooden wall ride at the bottom end of Budgie vs Mullet is now open!!! Over the last 6 months, this project has...
Thames MTB
Mar 19, 20241 min read


Hotoritori mtb park has a new trail
We are super excited to announce that our new trail is open. Its called “The Darkness”. This is a grade 4 trail and consists of mostly...
Thames MTB
Mar 19, 20241 min read


We have our own Digger - Woohoo
We are super excited to announce that our Thames Mountain Bike Club has received a very generous grant from The Lion Foundation to...
Thames MTB
Dec 15, 20231 min read


Sometimes a storm brings a little sunshine
Or so was the case when the original Big Bike Film Night was postponed from February due to the impact of storms that hit the Coromandel....
Thames MTB
Jul 15, 20232 min read


TMBC features getting a workout at Te Puru School
Over the last few weeks our club features have been located at Te Puru school for their students to use and build up some fantastic...
Thames MTB
Apr 6, 20231 min read


Karaka Trail gets some new boardwalk features
She's been a busy week and weekend with the preparation and packaging up of a series of boardwalk building material kits that we...
Thames MTB
Jan 17, 20231 min read
Mtb Challenge day at DOC Summer Programme = cancelled
Unfortunately the weather has forced a cancellation of the event we planned to run Thursday January 5th. We will try to reschedule either...

Ric Balfour
Jan 4, 20231 min read
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