Part of the Firstfloor Network.

Tagged: Queenstown

QUEENTSTOWN GONDOLA UPDATE

Posted by Caleb on Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Jimbo Allan just pointed me to this piece that Queenstown newspaper Mountain Scene did on the whole Skyline gondola access issue. They talk to the man. Read full story below. READ MORE

TRACK DAY TUESDAY (ON A WEDNESDAY AGAIN)

Posted by Lester on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Queenstown, idyllic.

This week there’s no excuse for a late Track Day Tuesday, apart from the fact I was actually out riding the track and attempting to take some photos and remember what tracks were what.

So with out further ado Track Day Tuesday (on a Wednesday again!)  this week it’s not just one track but a general area, the often overlooked ‘Skyline Hill’, Queenstown. READ MORE

TURD SANDWICH

Posted by Lester on Saturday, December 19th, 2009

The boys from Vertigo in Queenstown along with their band of merry men, now dubbed ‘the Alliance’, have been busy on the tools lately. They’ve been putting in some new trails up on Skyline Hill that adds to the already awesome network of trails up there.

Paul Angus put together this clip of ‘Turd Sandwich’ which looks like a whole lot of fun!

KELLY MCGARRY BACKFLIPS DREAMTRACK

Posted by Caleb on Monday, August 31st, 2009

Oh yeah! Aaron Lutze has been sitting on this clip for a while but it’s finally found a home on Bikemag.com. Check it out as Kelly busts out arguably one of the raddest backflips ever caught on film!

GOT BACK?

Posted by Caleb on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

kelly-mini-dream-flip

Got Back? Kelly McGarry does. He’d been talking about flipping the last double on BIG-Dream-Track all week. On my last day and my last hour in Queenstown he was ready, I asked him to hit the Mini-Dream flip one last time (above) and on landing clean, his rear shock blew up! I jumped in the car to catch my plane and just outside of Geraldine got a text from Luke McCombie: “He just did it!”. As soon as Lutze is ready to post the video we’ll have it.