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Worth the wait

For over 25 years the hills behind Alexandra’s infamous clock-on-the-hill have housed some of the country’s most exhilarating, unique and underground mountain bike trails. They were built, maintained and ridden in relatively secrecy by a handful of dedicated locals; there were no trail signs, no maps and no easy way to learn your way around. Even if you knew the trails existed it was a struggle to

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