AKDH Auckland Downhill Club

14/09/2026

🚵‍♀️ SCHOOLS XC AT SANDERS Reserve — A BIG THANK YOU!🚵‍♂️

What a weekend at Sanders Reserve!

We were stoked to be involved in hosting the final round of the Auckland Schools XC series, and for AKDH, this was a first. As a downhill-focused club, stepping outside our usual DH events opened our eyes to just how many opportunities there are to get more people riding and racing bikes.

With our new park taking shape, we’re really excited about the possibility of being able to host events like this on our own land in the future and create even more opportunities for our local riding community.

A huge thank you goes to the committee of volunteers who put in the time and effort to organise and run this event. With many of us not living right around the corner from Sanders Reserve, it took some extra commitment from everyone involved — but it was absolutely worth it!

This event was also a massive help towards getting the new park off the ground financially. The funds raised have helped us get to the final piece of the puzzle needed to bring in a professional trail crew and finish off the DH track. 🤘

A massive thanks to Levi Gear for helping present the trophies. It’s always awesome to have an elite rider lining up at grassroots events, giving the next generation someone to look up to and showing them where riding can take you.

Well done to everyone who competed! It was awesome to see so many young riders getting out there and giving it a go. Results can be found at the link below 👇

🔗 Results: https://my.raceresult.com/398776/

It was also awesome to see a couple of the local lads stepping outside their comfort zone and taking on a new discipline. That’s exactly what we love about events like this — getting more people on bikes and giving riders the opportunity to try something different.

📸 Photos from the event: https://photos.app.goo.gl/PLstD6HBNc1ERKR37
PHOTOCREDIT: Mike Beale - Westlake Girls

Finally, a huge thank you to everyone who volunteered, helped set up, ran the event, supported the riders, raced, spectated or simply came along and supported the day.

This was a big step for AKDH and an important one for our new park. We’re excited about what the future holds and the opportunities we’ll have to bring more events, more riders and more of the mountain bike community together.

From XC to DH and everything in between — we’re looking forward to building something pretty special. ❤️🚵‍♂️

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30/08/2026

Wow wow wow !!

What an incredible turn out today, thank you to each and everyone of you who turned up and gave us a hand !!

It’s starting to look a lot like a track now !!

27/08/2026

Don’t forget it’s Dig Day this Sunday 30th August!!! 🪏☀️🥾

- Yes it’s raining on Saturday but we are on for Sunday, rain, hail or shine (forecast looks 👌🏻). It will possibly a little greasy so good footwear is required !
- ⁠brings shovels, spades, rakes - whatever you like to dig with as dig we shall!
- ⁠we are well planned and keen to get as much done within the time (9am - 12.30pm). There will be x2 diggers onsite and special care needs to be taken around them for everyone’s welfare
- ⁠digging will be followed by bbq and refreshments.
- ⁠location https://maps.app.goo.gl/KcgDNgvWmtD6azBb6?g_st=ic

See ya Sunday !!

Find lokale virksomheder, se kort og få rutevejledninger i Google Maps.

23/07/2026

Massive thanks to Lance and the Crew at Mason Contractors for helping shift the containers from the old site and positioning them at our new site !

Give the team a call if you need any work done locally !

It’s all coming together !

10/07/2026

Hi all

We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 29 July at the back bar of The Bridgehouse in Warkworth from 6:30pm. For those that are unable to attend in person we will share a link closer to the time allowing you to join from afar. For those attending - turn up at 6pm and have a b**r & some nibbles on the Treasurer!

While we will have the normal run of things to cover off - election of officers, Treasurer’s / President’s reports and the like - we will be trying our best to keep that short & sweet to allow more time for general business, in which we will share some of the plans for and actions taken to date in getting the new Dome Valley MTB park up and running.

If you have any burning questions, ideas to share or matters to table in general business, please forward these through to [email protected] in advance of the meeting.

We welcome all to join, particularly members and their direct family and look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks time.

Cheers
Ray (President) and the AKDH Committee

03/04/2026

Unfortunately we got hit this morning !

If anyone sore anything suspicious around the dome please reach out.

About $700 worth of fuel was stolen from a digger being used by the Auckland Downhill Club, adding pressure as the group builds its new site amid rising diesel prices.

25/02/2026

Hello all.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but we have had to permanently close our current Dome Valley location. We knew this day was coming with the planned extension of the Northern Corridor motorway from Warkworth to Te Hana due to begin construction early next year - we had hoped to return to the park this Autumn after some preliminary "road-lining" harvesting was completed, but the extent of deforesting and the level of damage done to the tracks means it is terminal - we estimate over 70% of Ridgeline would need to be rebuilt.

Unfortunately, this means we will not be hosting any further shuttle days or the eagerly anticipated final send-off, and at this stage it looks like the 2026 Auckland Secondary Schools DH will be delayed or may not be held at all, unless we can work with another club or park to host it.

This is tough news as this park had a lot of history (circa 20 years), has been the launch pad for many great riders and provided the rest of us with smiles from ear to ear. But this not the end - in fact it is the beginning of something new and potentially better. We have secured another site in the Dome Forest on the northern eastern side of SH1. It's a much bigger parcel of land with greater scope for multiple forms of gravity and enduro styled riding. Preliminary track design for our first DH line has been completed by Jef Carter of Southstar Trails and the committee is moving full throttle into fundraising and construction mode. In many ways the closing of the current park will help us progress in new park sooner.

We will put more information out in the coming weeks about how you too can help - the more help we get, the faster we all get riding again and please remember we are all volunteers running this club and we all have day jobs! Whether it be digging, building, materials, use of your business resources, assistance with fundraising, sponsorship or donating - everything and anything will be greatly appreciated.

One last thing to cover - I am sure a few of you will be wondering what will happen to your membership (and any that may have booked and paid for the planned shuttle days). We will get in touch directly with those who have most recently renewed with some options, but generally speaking we will put your membership "on ice", effective as of the last shuttle day (10th January 2026). Once the new park opens and we hold our first shuttle day, your membership will restart. If yours has recently expired - no need for any action - we will send out notice to all expired memberships once the new park is operational both letting you know and checking to see if you want to get back to riding downhill fast.

Thanks for your understanding and we hope to see you on the end of a shovel soon!

Thanks
The AKDH Team

20/01/2026

Excited to be apart of this

Some exciting changes have been underway behind the scenes. As posted previously the MTB clubs and Bike Parks of Auckland have all come together to form the Auckland Schools MTB Collab.

These clubs are ...

Auckland Mountain Bike Club – Auckland (as Auckland Schools XC MTB)
Auckland Downhill Club - Dome Valley
Pohutukawa Coast Mountain Bike Club – Maraetai
Jaffa Kids Mountain Bike Academy – Riverhead / Woodhill
Totara Park MTB Club – Totara Park, Manukau
West Coast Riders Club – Riverhead
Woodhill Bike Parks – Woodhill
Fourforty Gravity Bike Park – Kawakawa

With Mountain Biking previously being the largest unsanctioned Auckland school sport, the good news is that MTB is now officially approved within College Sport Auckland and the Auckland region as a secondary schools sport.

This will see the events of 2025 being the Auckland Schools XC Series, The Shreddar Funduro Series and the Auckland Downhill Champs being brought together in 2026 and "officially" become sanctioned within the Auckland Secondary Schools sports platform.

It will also help towards rankings for riders and start orders in other regional and national schools mtb events.

There are some slight changes from last year.....

Secondary Schools students will now register / enter the event through their school sports administrators.

Intermediate School Students will continue to register / enter the event through the event registration portal directly.

Both registration platforms will close off 12pm of the Tuesday prior to the event.

Watch this space for event entry links ...

The event dates for 2026 are ...

Term One

15th February Funduro Race 1 - Jaffa Kids Academy – Riverhead
22nd February Funduro Race 2 - Pohutukawa Coast MTB - Maraetai
18th April DH - Auckland Schools DH Champs - AKDH Dome
19th April Funduro Race 3 - Fourforty MTB Park

Term Two and Three

10 May XC R 1 - Pohutukawa Coast MTB Club - Maraetai
24th May XC Race 2 - TBC
28th Jun XC Race 3 - Woodhill Bike Parks - Woodhill
16th Aug XC Race 4 - Totara Mountain Bike Club – Totora Park
6th Sept XC Race 5 – Auckland Downhill Club - Saunders Reserve

Additional Dates

2026 North Island School MTB Champs

The 2026 North Island School MTB Championships will be held in Wellington on 26-29 March 2026, hosted by Wellington MTB Club and PNP MTB Club.

The schedule of the event will be as follows;

Downhill- 26/27 March 2026 at Rivenrock

Enduro- 28 March 2026 at Porirua

Cross Country/Cross Country Relay- 29 March 2026 at Porirua

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