Top mountain bikers come to TaranakiGRANT MATTHEW/STUFF Elite New Zealand Mountain Bike team members Sam Gaze and Anton Cooper visit the Mangamahoe mountain bike park to ride with club members. Two of New Zealand's elite mountain bikers have come to Taranaki to give back to the sport they love. Sam Gaze and Anton Cooper were at the Mangamahoe mountain bike park, near New Plymouth, on Monday and took part in a ride and socialised with around 50 people from the New Plymouth Mountain Bikers Club. GRANT MATTHEW/STUFF Gaze and Cooper visited the the New Plymouth Mountain Bikers Club as part of its Monday night ride series. READ MORE:* Three new trails at Lake Mangamahoe good news for the region's mountain bikers* Anton Cooper, Sam Gaze lead talented NZ team for world championships* Kiwi mountain bikers Sam Gaze and Anton Cooper ready for national champs showdownThe pair were asked to come along as part of the club's Monday night ride series which had been running for the last few weeks.

Source: Stuff December 18, 2017 20:26 UTC