About Fat Tyre

We're Queenstown's mountain bike guiding specialists - we're born and breed local riding enthusiasts and we're here to show you the thousands of kilometres on thousands of hectares of private high country sheep farms and conservation land we have access to. Well away from the crowded trails close to town.

We don't guide where you can ride to yourself!

Fat Tyre Adventures burst into existence in 2001 when owner/operator Greg McIntyre could no longer contain his passion for mountain biking and took a leap to start his own guiding business.

Queenstown, New Zealand - Mountain biking

Either Helicopter in or drive in, our ultimate objective is to offer our riders the best ride they’ve ever had!

We have private and Department of Conservation land concessions on five different mountain ranges giving us the ability to access rides that no one else can. The trails are mostly very natural with amazing scenery, a range of rocky steep, narrow trails or fast open smooth trails with the odd cow and sheep (it is New Zealand!). On the ‘gravity’ trails the descents are huge -with some offering over 1800m of down. These trails could be the best trails you have ever ridden.

Greg McIntyre.
Owner and lead guide.

Greg is well travelled and well aware of the hassles and frustrations of not getting to the heart of an area or mountain bike trail area. His twenty years mountain biking in the Southern Lakes of New Zealand qualifies 'Fat Tyre Greg' to deliver the most amazing trails on offer in this special part of the planet. These trails are the ones that you will not find on your own.

Greg is a founding member and mountain bike spokesperson for Cycle Tour Operators New Zealand (CTONZ) and now assesses for the NZ standards organisation training trainers to teach riders to be guides.

Sustainability.
Where possible, we buy local. Our styley biking merchandise comes from a Christchurch based company and our t-shirts are printed in Queenstown. World famous in NZ, we offer the One Square Meal or Em's power cookie as trail snacks - both 100% pure kiwi hearty health bar. If we visit a café at the end of a ride, we go local and of course, we always drink local beer and wine.

Recycling.
With Greg’s Scottish and Ange’s Dutch blood, our home and office is a veritable recycling mecca – even the bike inner tubes are recycled into tree ties and our worms love chomping their way through old invoices and egg cartons.