Welcome to Adventure Riding NZ

Adventure Riding NZ is New Zealand’s free Adventure Riding and Dual Sport 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.
You can be posting in minutes by clicking on the button at the top of the page to Register/Login.

If you are new to Adventure Riding, Getting started provides some things to consider when choosing an adventure bike, accessorising your adventure bike and looking after your bike and yourself. Plus there’s also a huge Adventure Motorcycle Specs table to help you research what bike may be right for you.

We have a 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

Kotukuraeroa Road

In the hills East of Taihape lies Kotukuraeroa Road, essentially a formed farm track. Depending on recent use and weather...

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Watershed – Tiriraukawa Roads

An alternate route to Turakina Valley Road and a more interesting route than SH1 (albeit slower). Watershed and Tiriraukawa Roads...

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Takapari Road

Takapari Road takes you high into the Ruahine Ranges from the Pohangina Valley northeast of Palmerston North. The Ruahine area...

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Port Jackson Road

Port Jackson Road runs up the West side of the Coromandel Peninsula from the T-junction at the northern end of...

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Random South Island Tracks

Waitahu River

Waitahu River is just a few km out of Reefton off Gannons Road on SH69 heading towards the Buller Gorge....

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The Denniston Track

Denniston track is usually ridden East to West from the Iron Bridge in Buller Gorge through to Denniston which is...

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The Maungatapu Track

The Maungatapu Track runs from Nelson's Maitai Valley through to the Pelorus Bridge in Pelorus Valley on SH6 and passes...

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East Manuherikia Track – Little Omarama Saddle

East Manuherikia Track, which takes you over the little Omarama Saddle, runs from the back of Omarama to near St...

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