Pedal power is set to hit the Bay of Plenty with the Rotorua Bike Festival set to get underway next month.
Rotorua deputy mayor Dave Donaldson says this year marks 10 years since the city hosted the 2006 UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships - which was a huge event for the city.
"That really was the first time that the international mountain bike spotlight was on us, and it was a huge success.
"Since then our reputation has grown and the length of our trail network in the Whakarewarewa Forest has doubled."
Since 2006, Rotorua has also become a unique destination. It's the only mountain biking centre in the world to have hosted a UCI World Championships, a UCI Trials World Cup round, the Singlespeed Mountain Bike World Championship, Crankworx and a round of the Enduro World Series.
In 2015, this was added to when the International Mountain Bicycling Association awarded the city their prestigious gold status.
While there is a lot to look forward to this year, the Rotorua Bike Festival will get things going from February 12-21.
The festival will feature a huge range of different biking events and will finish with the World Endurance Mountain Bike Organisation (Wembo) 24-Hour Solo World Championships.
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Posted on 07-01-2016 10:42 | By How about this view!
Can waste their rates money as they see fit, after all they actually benefit from the tourist trade. Something that many Tauranga residents don't appreciate is the cost to Tauranga for the benefit of other regions. We carry the cost in terms of infrastructure etc and the tourists (Particularly from the ships) just pass through and cause transport nightmares at the bottleneck that is Port Mt Maunganui.
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