
Banks Peninsula
Tour
1 day tour
A great local day trip suitable for beginner riders and that introduction to gravel roads, but also a great day loop for more experienced riders.
Enjoy fantastic scenery from the Port Hills Summit Road, Banks Peninsula, Harbours and Bays. A good mixture of open roads, nice twisty coastal roads and some sections of well maintained gravel, perfect for that first experience of adventure motorcycling on gravel.
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Beginner-Intermediate
Approx 4 hours
173km
85% Seal, 15% Gravel
3630m
742m


The Route
From our depot near Christchurch Airport we travel thru Chirstchurch city and up onto the Port Hills Summit Road for some fantastic views over Christchurch city and the Canterbury plains.
Tracking via Gebbes Pass, Little River, Port Levy, Diamond Harbour and Lyttelton, you will experience gravel roads climbing up onto the southern peninsula from Little River, and crossing back north via the Western Valley.
A mainly seal route with a couple of great gravel "teasers" chucked in to incite the Adventure rider within.
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