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Speaker 2: Oh god, yea, so they said.

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Speaker 1: Oh let's mix it up and go go the other way.

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Speaker 1: But since then Bruce's he's coming with us from the

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Speaker 2: Gives us a nice bit of experience.

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Speaker 3: Bruce sent us a text yesterday he got lost. They

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Speaker 3: did fifty k's extra on day two because he got

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Speaker 2: So I went following, Well, maybe not the strongest partners,

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Speaker 2: or maybe he's learned. You know, there's the thing we

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Speaker 2: learned from experience, don't we.

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Speaker 1: Well we sort of hope.

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Speaker 3: So old dogs and new tricks.

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Speaker 2: So duncan what got you involved in this? Any fun story?

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Speaker 2: Fun peer pressure?

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Speaker 1: Probably wouldn't say it's back at this, but thought it'd

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Speaker 1: be quite a cool thing to do. And look, it's

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Speaker 2: Actually, have you got a personal connection to their WISPEC chopper.

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Speaker 3: Not the west Pac now, but my brother needed it well,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, he he didn't survive the accident.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, was he living rually it was in the UK, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're such.

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Speaker 1: You know, talk about the Golden Air and it's so

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Speaker 2: That's a pretty powerful motivator, something to help drive you

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Speaker 1: The bikes are on the trailer here, so we're training's done,

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Speaker 1: all right, you've lost your all's there? Actually what it

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Speaker 2: And that we reached period. Okay, So the bikes are

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all old up, ready to go. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: So what's that training up to this point looked like

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Speaker 1: That's that's probably one of the biggest things at the

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Speaker 3: Now, seven hours, seven seven hours. That's what we've been

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Speaker 2: Try around the golf's quack at well sometimes with me

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been heading to Geraldine to get some hells

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just in some of letters, I know, for

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Speaker 2: That sort of answers that question. Then it's not all

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Speaker 3: Done a trail at the update every year, which is

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Speaker 3: specifically for backpackers on the tour. We can't be part

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Speaker 3: and we're not allowed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, the course the route goes down zigzags

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Speaker 1: I think there's thing there's eight trails mountain bike trails.

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Speaker 1: We go down down through the Hurricie Rail Trail, then

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Speaker 1: into the Waikato River Trails, then into the Timber Trail,

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Speaker 1: down into Wanganui over the wire Wrapper over the rim

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Speaker 1: Attacker Trail. Then in the South Island we go down

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Speaker 1: the West Coast Wilderness Trail and around the mountains at Queenstown.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's there's there is on road stuff, but

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Speaker 1: it's designed for mountain bikers and.

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Speaker 2: You're going to see some sites.

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