Fat Tyre Dirty Weekend - Three Days of Fantastic Fat Tyre Trails
The Dirty Weekend incorporates some of the best Fat Tyre Adventure trails.
The trails we ride are natural farm track, sheep track and old gold mining
trails; we classify them as ‘All Mountain’ trails - a bit more challenging
than your average cross country trail but not downhill tracks.
The ultimate weekend mountain bike adventure with a massive 6000m of
downhill, spine tingling single track, exhilarating climbs and spectacular
scenery.
Day One - Heli bike!
Board your helicopter for a stunning flight beyond the Remarkables
Mountains and over the Nevis Valley to land at 1700m on rocky,
moonscape-like terrain. Undulating, fast flowing trails to technical
single track take us to the bottom. Beware there is some uphill riding.
Finish at the Bannockburn pub for a well-earned drink. Drive to Naseby for
the night.
Day Two - Single track in Naseby Forest
Spend the morning riding some of the best single track in the South
Island. This is a forest with a web of trails set around the old gold
mining town of Naseby. These days the town boasts it is “2000 feet above
worry level”. In the afternoon, drive to Poolburn for an epic ride
amongst stunning rock tors in the land of Rohan of Lord of the Rings fame.
This is a two run shuttle ride with three hours of gravity assisted
riding. No need to pack your bags we will stay another night in Naseby.
Day Three - The Famous Fat Tyre Adventures Big Day Out
3500m of down! This will blow your mind – early start with a 4x4 drive to
the Obelisk at 1700m - we ride a fast, roller coaster track down through
alpine tundra with epic views. Stop for lunch in Alexandra then follow up
a great morning with another 4x4 drive to Leaning Rock – stunning barren
landscape with huge rock tors, narrow farm tracks, old gold mining water
courses and stunning views. Return to Queenstown. (Note that accommodation
is not provided on this night if you choose to stay in Queenstown, but
we’d be happy to arrange it for you)
If traveling alone it would be worth booking one of the below
dates.
20010 - 2011 Dirty Weekend Dates
December 10th
11th 12th 2010
March 26th 27th 28th 2011
April 23rd 24th 25th 2011
We will run a Dirty weekend for 3 riders or more at any time-
please contact us
Price: $1500pp
Price includes:
1 x heli-bike
2 x nights’ accommodation (twin share)
Transport
Meals( you may like to bring your favourite trail snacks)
Guide/ driver
Land access fees.
Bikes- if you need one we have GT Force ‘All mountain- trail’ bikes
Optional extra day - many riders choose to add an extra day of single
track in Queenstown before or after their weekend trip - just let us know
as we will add it on when it suits you!
The trails we ride can be tailored to suit. All the trails will suit a
130mm-160mm full suspension XC to ‘All Mountain trail’ bike (rather than a
downhill rig).
Fat Tyre Adventures reserves the right to change the order of days and/or
type of trails according to what the weather is doing on the day.
This trip is put together with the assumption that riders are of average
mountain biking fitness and have an above average technical skill for
riding mountain bikes off road.
