Adventure Riding NZ

Adventure Riding NZ is New Zealand’s free Adventure Riding and Dual Sport motorcycling community.

Check out our forums to ask a question, organise a ride, share pictures of your bike or a ride you’ve done, or if you just want to discuss Adventure Riding.
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If you are new to Adventure Riding, explore things to consider when choosing an adventure bike, once you have your bike what handy extras you might want to accessorise your adventure bike with, and some tips on looking after your bike and yourself while riding. We’ve also got a huge Adventure Motorcycle Specs table to help you research what bike may be right for you.

Investigate our large collection of North and South Island tracks documented with free GPS track downloads for each track, plus there’s a community built map of every gravel road in New Zealand and a New Zealand T2B(Top 2 Bottom) route is under development which you can contribute to or download, plus there’s lots of info in our forums.
You need to be registered to access and download the track information but it’s all free.

Random North Island Tracks

Uapoto Road

There aren't a whole lot of gravel options in the upper central Waikato region and if you are a beginner at gravel riding or just want to avoid the main roads they are all worth a go. Uapoto Road Runs between Henry Road at the South end and Orini Road at it's North end and...

Waitetuna Valley Road

Another track west of Hamilton, this one connects in with Old Mountain Road and the two of them make a good loop if you've just got a few hours spare for a quick local ride. Waitetuna Valley Road is 50/50 seal/gravel, some of the sealed sections are quite tight and twisty but the gravel sections...

Random South Island Tracks

Macetown Road

William Fox discovered gold in the Arrow River in 1862 and in a very short time the population of the tiny Macetown township grow up to 1500 miners at the junction of 12 Mile Creek. By 1865 most of the gold was excavated by the miners and the population shrunk rapidity. At the early1900 the...

Piano Flat

Waikaia Bush Road State Highway 8 about 6km north of Roxburgh takes you into Piano Flat. Waikaia Bush Road starts out as an easy climb through farmland with relatively good gravel road and a few unlocked gates to go through. Although when we did this track it was covered in cloud, you could see some...

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