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Outdoor Equipment: Merida Big Nine 20 MTB

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 My current mountain bike...Merida Big Nine 20 Some of the trail sections along the Christchurch 360 are best covered on a bike rather than on foot. In particular the tracks from Brooklands Lagoon along the banks of the Waimakiriri River would take an enormous amount of time and effort to walk. The same distance can easily be covered on a MTB in a mater of hours....  End of the Brooklands section of the 360 Trail I have only one section of the 360 Trail left to cover between Taylors Mistake and Scarborough. However it is my intention to eventually cover all of the sections of the Christchurch 360 Trail again as I took no films or photos the last time I covered this ground.  Getting back on a bike after 20 years... Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's (before I got married) I was an avid MTB rider. I liked downhill riding, forest and flat trail riding and used to cover between 60-120 kilometers every week on my bike. As with most people jobs, houses, family and lack of time