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Teva, thats "teh”-vah," not "tee-vah" have been around for 25 years, and have built their reputation on water based sports shoes, stemming from rafting operations in the Grand Canyon! Does this make them a suitable candidate for producing a mountain bike shoe? Well they have all the technology in place, amalgamated with a well chosen collaboration with legendary freerider Jeff Lenosky, they

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Vertigo now has a shop situated at the new Hilton Hotel out in Frankton. This now gives Vertigo a year round presence in Queenstown for bike rental and the other services we offer which is something we have been looking for for a few years now.We will have bike rental available for all the Hilton Hotel customers and people situated in the nearby area also. There will be a range of kids bikes

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Mountain bike nuts will get more bang for their bucks in the resort this year.Tourism giant Skyline has set its inaugural eight-month season pass prices for gondola access to its trails at Bob’s Peak – and has landed a national downhill event too.Riders wanting lifts up to the newly-named Queenstown Bike Park will fork out $599 for the season, Mountain Scene can reveal.Bikers can access Ben

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This was an exciting suprise for us at Vertigo Bikes. We got the new dirt through the post box and we opened it up to find a double page spread all about us and what we do, how good is that! New Zealand and Queenstown has been getting a lot of publicity recently about it riding and being a great southern hemisphere destination which is great to see. The opening of the Skyline Gondola to

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Vertigo Bikes was again showing the pro's were to go, when Red Bull did some filming with NZ's Brook MacDonald on our Ben Cruachan heli bike trail on the Remarkables mountain range. It is an awesome video, beautifully filmed, so check out the link here to watch the video.Enjoy!

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Vertigo Boss Tim Ceci showing off the "One Square Meal" ZERODE DH bike, which we finished building up only a few days ago. It has been fully tricked out with Shimano Saint groupset and Rockshox Boxxer WC fork. I think you will agree this is one amazing looking bike.The One Square Meal bike will be available for demo use to Queenstown Mountain Bike Club members, for a nominal fee of $25 plus

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Vertigo Bikes will have one of the much anticipated NZ designed ZERODE DH Bikes in the shop until the end of the season. Cookie Time have bought the bike and have branded it up as the "ONE SQUARE MEAL" Zerode. The bike is owned by one of the owners of Cookie Time but he is going to be leaving it in charge with us at Vertigo Bikes and locals who are members of the Queenstown Mountain Bike Club

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Queenstown Mountain Bike School is something Vertigo bikes has been thinking about ever since we opened our doors back in 2000. It is exciting that it is finally coming to fruition and that we will be bringing this product to Queenstown and the greater Otago and Southland region for people looking to improve their mountain bike skills to help enjoy the amazing riding we have in the area even

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Vertigo bikes will have a mountain bike rental station situated at the top of the skyline gondola complex for the initial 4 month trial period of the new mountain bike park. We will have a fleet of DH bikes for rent so people can try out the new Ben Lomond Forest bike park DH trails. Vertigo staff will be fighting for this job as it could possibly be the best and most scenic office in town!

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Vertigo is doing a select range of the 2011 Norco bikes this summer, the one we are most excited about is the new Norco DH, which is a full on DH race ready rig that is going to retail for $3999!!! The bike is rumored to weigh in a under 40lbs, comes with the new Rock Shox Boxxer RC CL, Avid Elixer 5's and a Fox Van R Coil rear shock. The angles are superb too, low and slack with a 64 degree

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Vertigo bikes has hired the services of new Queenstown resident Shaun Kirton. Shaun stood head and shoulders above the rest when we were looking for a new mountain bike guru this summer. Shaun worked as the Team Yeti world Cup mechanic for a season, so is seriously handy on the spanners and knows a thing or two about suspension set up, working closely with the Fox racing shox guys!He is going

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Vertigo is looking for some mountain bike guru's to join the team this year, if you think you have what it takes, then follow the link of our website and send your CV in. The season is approaching quickly!! Summer is on the way! Woop woop!

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Nice Blog from a customer who came on a Skippers Canyon tour with us earlier in the season. He had a great time and describes the trip perfectly. http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/gaz-lj/1/1259662409/tpod.html

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A nice article on the Spoke Mountain Bike Magazine website on some of the riding in Queenstown, mostly up the Skyline Hill (Ben Lomond Forest) where alot of the hidden gems are to be found. This area does give you access to all the best steep technical terrain with some amazing trails up there, and the network is constantly evolving. You definitely earn your turns as you do have to power your

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Throughout this summer, our staff at Vertigo have been having a little in house competition to achieve the best style over the first little roller on the Skippers Canyon pack track. Everytime we have a guided trip into Skippers we endeavour to get the camera out and try and puch the boundaries of what is possible over the 1 foot tall jump.A few talented athletes have tried to give it their

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A fresh dusting of autumn snow over Queenstown made things a bit more interesting on the Remarkables heli bike this morning. Guide Si Smith took the camera up to get some action shots and take some photos of the beautiful snow capped vistas. Blue skies, snow and 18km of beautiful back country mountain biking makes for a great start to the day. With only a few weeks left in the season, this

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It's our favourite time of year at Vertigo Bikes, the autumnal colours are in full bloom and the weather is beautiful! It makes for some stunning heli biking! We have had quite a few trips out over the last few weeks, and we have been taking lots of pictures to show off what Queenstown riding has to offer! Enjoy!

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Well, the worlds greatest social "It's not a race" race series has finished for another year. The final round was held on Thursday 17th March up Skyline Gondola Hill with the infamous "Das Uber D" -the event that started the whole social race movement off in 2008.The final round also included a fancy dress option, which everyone took part in. There were some great outfits to be seen, most

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The ultimate all mountain weapon, we have used these for our guided heli-bike trips and have been the most reliable bikes we have used to date!Six inches of Giant Maestro travel using the awesome Fox Shox RP2 rear shock, with the same up front, using a Fox Float 140mm fork, with lockout feature.We are selling these for $2400, these retailed for $5500 last year, as they are 2009 bikes.

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Great all rounder from Giant, if you want a bike that does it all, the Trance X with its Maestro 5" of rear travel is the bike for you. The X3 is the entry level in the Trance X series. We have used these bikes since the end of November and have had no problems what so ever.We will be selling these for $1600, and have a a few sizes available, from XS to L.* Front and rear suspension provided by

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Entry level full suspension from Giant, if you are looking for a full suspension bike thats just to iron out the easier trails, and make your ride a bit more comfortable, then this is a great option. We only have a few of these left at time of going to press, but if you can fit either an XL frame or XS frame then come and see us.We will be selling these for $1200.* Shimano SLX 27 speed gears*

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Nice recreational full suspension bike from Giant, these are our most common bikes used in our rental fleet, we have had them since the end of November, and have been well looked after.* Shimano mechanical disc brakes* Shimano 24 speed gears* Suntour Front suspension fork* Sizes from XS - XL

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We are now selling all our ex-rental mountain bikes, so if you want to grab an end of season bargain, come and see us. We have got full suspension bikes from $1400 and front suspension bikes from $450. All our bikes have been professionally maintained and well looked after all season.

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Another great ride over in Alexandra with the boys from Henderson Cycles. Jimmy and Phil do a great wednesday night shop ride, leaving at 6pm sharp. There has been quite a loyal crew of Queentowners heading over there each week to ride the awesome trails Alex has to offer! Last night (10/3) about 25 of us rode the infamous "Ghost Rider" trail, I have been looking forward to this trail, as have

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League of Gentlemen is in its final stages for the 2010 summer, we have got the "pump track party" happening this Friday 11th March at the gorge road trails. Then on Sunday is the much anticipated "Meagreavalanche" which is going to be starting of from the top of the parapante take off way past the top of the Skyline Gondola! A 3-4 man start at once thrash down the mountain affair! Could be

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Vertigo Bikes guide Dan Thwaite talks about the life of being a mountain bike guide, a nice little interview here

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Although Coronet Peak has now closed its chairlifts for the mountain biking public to use, the tracks are still up there and are in surprisingly good condition! A few of us keen locals headed up there last week and rode up the brakeburner track, all the way to the top of the mountain, to spectacular early evening autumnal views! The ride down was equally as good and was great fun to blast out a

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Welcome to the Vertigo Bikes blog page, hopefully we can get some interesting topics up and running and show everyone how good the mountain biking in Queenstown!

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