If you’ve ever ridden in Christchurch’s Port Hills, you would’ve looked across the azure waters of Lyttelton Harbour and seen the hulking mass of Te Ahu Patiki/Mt Herbert. At 909m, it’s the highest peak on Banks Peninsula, but unless you’ve got a penchant for law-breaking, and pissing off local farmers and trampers, it’s always been off-limits to mountain bikers…until now.
Christchurch trail-building company, Graded Earth, has just completed a shared-use trail that climbs from the picturesque Orton Bradley Park in Charteris Bay to the track that leads to Te Ahu Patiki, opening up legal mountain bike access to iconic peak for the
