UrbanGrinduro - 2023

 UrbanGrinduro - 2023 - July 30th

Congratulations to everyone that turned up to do the second Urbangrinduro!

We had mint conditions and a great vibe among underbikers and overbikers alike.

Here is the course if anyone wants to do it again, maybe even set an FKT !
https://www.strava.com/activities/9546752050 also, the segment here:
https://www.strava.com/segments/35038454

Thanks heaps to all the people that took photos and especially the guys at Shed 22 who fenced off an area for us so we didn't stink up the joint too much!

The Urbangrinduro course from 2021 can be found here:
https://www.strava.com/segments/29989611

Cheers, Jeff

LAST UPDATE 2pm 29/07/2023

I just did a reccie of the second part of the course, most of which I had not done. It was very cool. A couple of things to note.

The course is so squirrely you will have to follow your GPS very closely if you want to follow the course exactly, not that it really matters! Set the resolution to 50m if you can. 300m was not doing it for me on one of my two GPSes.

It's also wet out there. The CX riders will enjoy a few bits of wet off-camber after Mt Albert !

Also, the course is only 37 kms, but the climbs, though short are sometimes steep. Bring stuff to eat and drink !

There are also a couple of tight twisty downhill segments on wet asphalt. They also have green lichen and wet leaves on them. Be very careful on these bits. I am probably going to walk some of them. Steep ashphalt can be very unforgiving.

Please remember the trails are used by others, in particular, dog walkers near Tawatawa reserve, and walkers on Highbury Fling, so please be courteous.

Ikigai/Serendipidty is probably your best place if you want to go fast. Mt Vic looked good today but as usual will have lots of walkers. 

If it gets a bit much at any time you know you can always straight to Shed 22, (Macs brew bar).

Hit me up with any questions. 

Cheers, Jeff

LAST UPDATE:  6:25pm Monday - 24/07/2023 

Summary-

• Starts 9am at Transient Track, Polhill/Waimapihi Te Aro
• Finishes at Shed 22 Queens Wharf pub (Macs Brew bar).

Hi folks. Here is the latest update for the Revolution Bicycles Urban Grinduro! In exchange for naming rights Jonty has promised to make you all an expresso if you visit him at 69 Ottawa Road in Ngaio. Jonty is one of Wellington's original MTBing pioneers and knows a few cool trails.

9am Sunday 30th of July- we start at Waimapihi (Polhill) at the bottom of Transient, ride up Clinical, Highbury Fling, Sawmill Track, down Ikigai Serendipidy and then back up Transient.  From there we head down and across Brooklyn and head into a completely new to me trail that pops us out on the Golf Course in Island Bay. We take in some cool new uphill singletrack over that way before hooking in to Mt Albert, eventually taking in some more new stuff (that I haven't ridden), and ultimately exiting via Mt Vic to visit a pub in town - Shed 22 on the Wharf, opposite Circa/Te Papa

Download GPS files below
If you have an old school Garmin like an Etrex, you can drag n drop the GPX into your GPX folder no probs. If you have a modern Edge styled Garmin you will have to upload using Garmin-connect or RidewithGPS or however you do it. We will endeavour to have a regroup at the tops of some of the climbs so we don't get too strung out. Although maybe strung-out might be good. We don't want to make nuisances of ourselves.

What the course looks like
https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/display/20230723165504-15130-map.html

What it looks like in RidewithGPS 
https://ridewithgps.com/trips/129066027

• Download the GPX file from Dropbox here  
• Download the TCX file from Dropbox here

If you can't load the GPS file onto your GPS or phone you could just try to wing it and ride with someone who has the GPS course loaded! 

The course is around 37 kms with around 1100 metres climbing. 

Cheers, Jeff

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