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

Coonoor Road

16k of easy gravelly goodness. Coonoor Road is a well kept gravel road, with a mixture of tight twisty stuff and straighter sections. The southern end of Coonoor Road starts off the popular Pahiatua-Pongaroa Road and at it's northern end Coonoor Road joins up with Towai Road. Only 600 metres West of the junction where...

Meremere Track

This one needs checking out by the 'Naki hardcore. Meremere Track is only open during summer months, during winter the gate at the beginning of the track is locked. 500 metres South of Mokoia on SH3 take Whakamara Road inland and Meremere Road is 300 metres on the left. Follow Meremere Road for ~14.5km over...

Random South Island Tracks

Mavora Lakes – The Von Road

Mavora Lakes Road starts almost halfway between Te Anau & Mossburn on SH94 and heads 35km north east before tee'ing off to the North-West and heading to the Mavora Lakes after which the road is named. The road also continues straight and ends on the southern shore of Lake Wakatipu at Walter Peak station, changing...

Big River Mine

Big River Mine is accessed via Soldiers-Big River Road which is the first road on the left after leaving Reefton heading South on SH7. The road is named as it leads to the mine working remains and a display about the Big River Mine that was located here. Big River Mine's difficulty comes from the...