Ryan de Lange

Gender: Male

State/Province: Otago

Date of Birth: 24/09/1976

What type of riding do you do?:

Happy to be on the bike, a mixture back country exploring to shuttle runs on the local hill. Enjoy technical trails and smooth flowing tracks. It's all about being on the bike and taking in whats around you. The passion to go around the next corner or over the next hill.

Your Local Trails / Where do you ride?:

Living in Queenstown there is a good selelction of flowing track in town, either ride up or use the gondola. Good variety of trails. Longer rides in the back valleys, and other trails that can link up to make multi-day trips. With lots of good trout fishing it worth while to take a rod.

Also lived in Wellington. Assessibility to good tracks for a city is awesome. Most times you won't need a car.

Also lived in Rotorua, over 100km's of flowing single through Redwoods.

All the places you have riden:

Broad view: South Africa, England, Wales, Scotland, USA (West coast, central and east coast states.)to many places in Europe, still exploring New Zealand.

Your favourite trails:

Hard to find a trail I didn't like. All these ar ein my top 5. Kneeland hill, Viper trail, Lake Elsinore, California; Rabbit peak, Apex, Summit county, resorts, Colorado trail; Colorado, anywhere in Moab; Badlands, Wyoming; Stowe, Vermont; Betys Coed, Marin, Wales; Peebles, lake district, Scotland; Aston hill, Lake Garda, Italy; any resort in Europe,etc...........then all over Rotorua and Wellington plus inbetween, West coast and.........................lately, 7 mile, Moonlight trail, Bobs peak, Queenstown.

Your local club link: http://www.queenstownmtb.co.nz/ , http://www.rockandrut.org

Local Advice places to stay, cool things to do etc:

Queenstown is a resort town were things are always changing. Contact me or the information centre to find out what is happening and what's good or what's not.