19 Jan 2024

Queenstown: Riders flock to NZ's mountain-biking Mecca

From Summer Times, 9:40 am on 19 January 2024
It wouldn't be a bike festival without a spot of heli-riding.

It wouldn't be a bike festival without a spot of heli-riding. Photo: Queenstown Bike Festival

It's renowned for its ski fields and dramatic landscape, but Queenstown is also becoming a must for mountain-bikers.

Today, is the first of the 10-day Queenstown Bike Festival, which will see riders from amateur to pro - enjoying the best of what the resort town has to offer including, heli-riding and lake jumps.

With more than 30 events it promises to deliver the 'most amount of stoke you've seen in one mountain town'. 

Queenstown Bike Festival kicks-off today.

Queenstown Bike Festival kicks-off today. Photo: Queenstown Bike Festival