Over 60 years old - Peddler's (cycling)

Ngaruawahia to Hamilton Gardens - return - Te Awa Trail

If you have not done this ride before, you will love this one!
It is reasonably flat, grade one and concrete path all the way to Hamilton Gardens, where we will have lunch.
We start at Ngaruawahia squash club where there is parking and go past the Golf Club, over the spectacular Perry Bridge and continue over a series of humps until the Horotiu Bridge where you recross the river. From there we go past the Fonterra dairy plant and get into the tighter parts of the track into Hamilton. There are a couple of short bits where you need to walk and a detour through the town however generally it is a very pleasant commuter track.

Hamilton Gardens are home to fantastic gardens, which you may be tempted to wander through!! BUT hold everything . . .
Unfortunately, we will not have time to view the gardens as we wont have the light at the end of the day. So please resist the temptation to go visit the gardens.
After lunch we ride back to Ngaruawahia.

Total length is 56kms (28km each way).

Normal rules apply:

• Please bring a spare tube for your particular bike wheel size.
• We travel at circa 15ks an hour except for down hills.
• We have a tail end Charlie to make sure riders do not get lost. We are not too fond of leaving people behind.
• Assistance will be rendered for any mechanical issues but we are not bike mechanics.
  - If the weather goes AWOL we will move it to another date.
• Check your bike is serviceable, brakes, tyres, chain.

Suggest we car pool down and back. Use the comments section to communicate.

This is not a ride but a post to advise members they can open discussions on future bike trips online here. We get lots of members looking for other members to join them on future trips eg: “I am thinking of doing the timber trail in October – anyone interested?” “I want to do the Alps to Ocean at Christmas……… I want to do the Waihi trip on the weekend…..The problem is however is that the right person who wants to do a similar trip is not always there at that time or ride….

Having done lots of these trips there are some real benefits in doing them as a small group particularly logistics, safety, know-how, company and perhaps accommodation.

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If anybody’s personal ride gets major interest (as in lots of members wanting to do it) then we will quite happily work with the proposer to set up a separate event.

If this idea works for members then come January when this non-existent ride occurs we will cancel it and set up a new one for next year.

If we get lots of "comments" in the interim we will cull the ones past their use by date.

Look forward to your comments.