It's noisy, full of dirt and nestled in the TECT All Terrain Park. But most importantly, it's a place the Tauranga Motorcycle Club can call home.

This weekend the club happily marked the end of a long journey with a special open day, with Tauranga City and Western Bay of Plenty mayors Stuart Crosby and Ross Paterson cutting the official ribbon.

Tauranga Motorcycle Club has a new home. Photos: Jody Beattie.

From start to finish the club has spent nearly two years planning and developing the track after signing the lease of the 40-hectare section of land from Western Bay of Plenty District Council in February 2013.

'It's really exciting to finally have a home base,” says Tauranga Motorcycle Club treasurer Nicki Blake. 'A huge amount of hard work has gone in behind the scenes.”

'For the last four years, since I joined the committee, they were hiring Maddix Park to run events and for two years the Tauranga club hasn't had race rounds.”

Since signing the lease it's taken a fair amount of effort and time to bring the vision to fruition, including bulldozer time to clear scrub and push out dozens of stumps, and building the start line, building rollers and table tops.

But the club believes the end result will become one of the premier motocross venues in the country.

Nicki says Sunday's fun day and official opening was a great event with 145 riders testing out both the purpose built mini and senior motocross tracks.

The day got off to an emotional start with the club members paying their respects to 14-year-old rider Trent Hayward, who tragically died last June, with a slow lap of the new course.

The teenager was killed after launching off a 30-metre jump at the Godfrey Memorial Motocross event.

Looking forward the club will now offer a spring-summer racing series along with racing one Sunday per month coupled with a practice session on the Saturday.

'We are hoping to hold another fun day in March and April if the weather doesn't pack in too early,” says Nicki.

TECT All Terrain Park manager Bill Wheeler says it's an 'absolutely fantastic” addition to the park's overall makeup.

'It's an awesome track and purpose built,” says Bill.

'Everybody had a wow of a time at the opening, even though it rained for most of the day.”

Tauranga City and Western Bay of Plenty mayors Stuart Crosby and Ross Paterson Photos: Jody Beattie.