Mediocre MTB NZ: Rotorua without a plan

[@charlieruck10]

Awesome video, there are so many trails to get lost in up there... The 3d 'Google Earth' shots were cool and I might -copy- use them in my next video. Music also works well :)

[@TheButlerNZ]

For the earth I had to draw the path myself as Google Earth is so bad now.. the community is dead... there used to be KML paths for everything... Trailforks allows 1 KML download then you need to be a paid member to download them (so how I downloaded the 1st track I don't know... Luckily it was the Forrest loop as that was not visible to manually make.... I then played the track as full screen as I could, played with the cam distance/speed... and used VSDC's screen capture.. came out a little fuzzy but good enough... unfortunately there was no up to date Rotorua earth maps that were clear so I went back a few years hence the felled forest where the trees are quite big... and I had to play with the color.... I did a lot better on my T4 video. The Muzak is just good ol UTubes free stuff from studio.youtube.com (which should redirect to your studio)...

[@TheButlerNZ]

Oh and it took me a month to finish this... and I had more.. but it was going to be too long.. so I'm going to put in another vid... with my mechanical failures.. and the result of physical exhaustion that day so bad my body rejected dinner... (I'm calling it a cleansing experience)

[@trailbogan]

I recognise some of those intersections with the forestry roads from my times running the Tarawera ultras....looks a lot more fun to be out riding than slogging away for hours on foot!

[@TheButlerNZ]

I barely scratched the surface only running 1 hill... The serious exhaustion from (possibly a little heat stroke) along with hitting a cross country slog instead of a downhill out made the next day a writeoff but when I get around to editing the gear failure video I'll go more into that... A couple of weeks and someone else to bounce destinations off and I would have really enjoyed it. I love Rotorua but currently the main drag is just a Covid homeless shelter and the city coastline was closed for renovation.