SATURDAY 10 MARCH 2012

Reserve Day Sunday 11 March 2012

Start and Finish

  • Start: Glendhu Bay, Wanaka
  • End: Butlers Green, Arrowtown

Key Dates

  • Race Day: Sat 10 March 2012
  • Reserve Day: Sun 11 March 2012
  • Entries Open: 1 July 2011 @ 9am
  • Refunds Closed: 1 Dec 2011
  • Entries Closed: 30 Jan 2012 - waitlist applies, email waitlist@iconicadventures.co.nz if you wish to be added to the waitlist.
  • Entry Transfers/Changes Close:
    15 Feb 2012 @ 5pm

Entry Fees

  • Adult: $140
  • Junior (15-18): $95

Race Day Timing

  • Registration: 8am-10:30am
  • Briefing: 10:35-10:50am
  • Elite Start: 11am
  • Team Ricoh Start: 11:05am
  • All other start times TBC
  • Cut-Off at Aid Station 2: 3pm
  • Prize Giving: Approximately 4pm

Race Records

  • Male: Anton Cooper 1.48.43
  • Female: Kath Kelly 2.20.05
  • For further records & interesting stats, click here.

 

 

Bike NZ

 

MOTATAPU 47KM MOUNTAIN BIKE

With Speight's Summit

2012 Mountain Bike Entries have closed, there is a waiting list operating if you wish to add yourself to this please email waitlist@iconicadventures.co.nz and we will be in touch if a space becomes available.

If you are a first time MTB competitor, want to compete against your peers or beat your mates, or just want to enjoy the spectacular Southern high country valleys, then the Motatapu 47km fits the bill.

The Motatapu Speight's Summit Mountain Bike is for everyone.  It can be as challenging or as easy as you want it to be (depending on your definition of easy!) Set in the spectacular Southern high country valleys, there are many rivers to cross, hills to climb and a few steep descents thrown into the mix.

The race starts at Glendhu Bay on the shore of Lake Wanaka, near the Wanaka township, and finishes at historic Arrowtown. Your journey follows a route early Maori used for hunting and gathering, and to move Pounamu (Greenstone). The valley was not discovered by European explorers until around 1862, during the gold rush.

This event takes you on an iconic off road course through the magnificent Motatapu, Soho and Glencoe Stations, which thanks to the owners, are opened once a year to the public for this event.

We have had top riders such as Anton Cooper, Marcus Roy, Kashi Leuchs, Sara MacDonald, Robyn Wong, adventure racers like Emily Miazga and Steve Gurney, and celebs such as Bill English and Hamish Carter all come and take part in the Motatapu Mountain Bike. However it is the first-timers, the recreational riders, and the competitors that just get up off the couch to come and take part that make up the main field.  It still surprises us each year how many stories we hear back about how "I have never been on a mountain bike before and I have just bought one for your event!"

Bring it on!