It's race week!! Woop! Really looking forward to the weekend and if you are racing, supporting, or just cruising, the trails are looking absolutely mint right now – that perfect combo of tacky dirt and no dust! Yeah we have that awesome gold dirt, but also the best adopters and trail crew in the country! Here's a break down of what we have all been preparing for you the enjoy this weekend: 🦸 VOLUNTEER & ADOPTER LEGENDS 🟡 Yellow Brick Road Two hours of vegetation work from t

G'day folks! Another week down in the forest and it has been a beaut with heaps of happy campers coming in to ride the new sections of the forest loop, check out the views of the loggin and in general get up to the best kind of mischief in the forest! Yeah, the weather's been super duper soggy this week, but luckily we're blessed with fast drying tracks here in Roto, so actually the rain has done the forest a service! The dust has disappeared, the dirts got tacky and all your

15 January 2026 What an EPIC fortnight in the forest! Over 349 hours of absolute graft, and we need to shine the spotlight on the legends who make this place what it is – the volunteers and trail adopters!  These are the people who don't get paid a cent but show up week after week, year after year, because they genuinely LOVE these trails. This place is run on hard mahi: 🦸 VOLUNTEER & ADOPTER HEROES Let's celebrate the incredible humans who poured their hearts into the fores

8 January 2026 WELCOME TO 2026! What a way to kick off the new year, this weather is off the hook! GET HERE NOOOOW!!! The weather is all time summer, trails are mint and its nice a cool in the forest. Honest, it does not get better than this eh! 🎉 MASSIVE SHOUT-OUTS! Before we dive into the trail work, we need to give some serious credit where it's due! 🚴 MOUNTAIN BIKE ROTORUA - THE UNSUNG HEROES Can we just take a moment to recognise the INCREDIBLE work Mountain Bike Rotor

18 December 2025 Well folks, this is it – the FINAL Whaka Weekly of 2025! What an absolutely INCREDIBLE year it's been! Before we dive into this week's work, let's take a moment to reflect on everything that made 2025 one of the best years on record for Rotorua trails. We weathered the SECOND BIGGEST storm season on record and cleared almost as many trees as the worst year ever (ya’ll know the one im thinking of!). We also had WAY more volunteer work than ever before, more re