This ride starts at Waimauku on SH 16 just 30 minutes from the Auckland CBD. The route includes sealed back roads, gravel roads, forests and beach. Despite pressure to close the beach to vehicles, Muriwai’s black iron sands, backed by dunes, is still a public road (with a 60 kph speed limit). Though beautiful, Muriwai can be a remote and somewhat hazardous place. If you can, go during the week, best in a three-bike group. You need to be at Muriwai four hours after high tide, to allow a good four hour hard sand window, as from three quarters tide on the beach shrinks to nothing in places and all of it very soft sand littered with debris and driftwood. My route gives riders the option of shortening the
ride to miss the challenging 80 plus km of beach riding. Click the pdf file for the full story and route instructions.
ride to miss the challenging 80 plus km of beach riding. Click the pdf file for the full story and route instructions.
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