2,000 km around the south of the south's finest biking roads...
The TT2000 'basic route' is 2,000 km long. It is all on sealed roads.. some highways, some byways. You have all weekend to do it. You start in Dunedin at 6:00am on Sat 26 Feb and finish in Christchurch between 6:00-10:00pm on Sun 27 Feb.
Download printable
info sheet
with whole route
maps & checkpoints
info sheet with
photo checkpoint
GPS coordinates
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How do I prove I've ridden the TT2000?
At 12 places around the route, known as photo checkpoints, you whip out your digital camera and snap a photo of the designated landmark or scene with your bike and rally shirt (maybe draped over the seat or screen) in it. Scroll through the book below to see the photo checkpoints. There are downloadable and printable info sheets for each checkpoint.
Photos - what's acceptable?
You've ridden 120 km into Milford Sound and find that Mitre Peak is shrouded in mist. You get to Niagara Falls and find the sign 2m up a dirt bank. You ride into Luggate and find the pub has been demolished. You reach the top of Coronet Peak in pitch blackness.
The scrutineers will adopt a common-sense policy when it comes to your photos. The basic principle is this: as long as you can provide irrefutable photographic proof that you were at or around the location in question, if the designated landmark or view is in accessible or unable to be snapped in the weather or light conditions, look for some other photo that will prove you were there such as a directional sign naming that location. As long as you have your bike + your rally shirt + any element that can be pinpointed to that location then that's fine. Note that this 'relaxation' rule applies ONLY IF it is impossible or unsafe to photograph the named landmark or view.
TT2000 Basic Route
Guide to
photo checkpoints
info sheet on this
photo point
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Photo point Flyer route Basic route
Digital photo required as evidence (your bike + rally shirt must be in it)
The start point at McIver & Veitch, Dunedin. After you are handed your rally shirt this will be the first photo you take.. your bike + shirt outside M&V.
This is the location of the digital photo required
This is the direction you are riding
The famous Niagara Falls in the Catlins. Get the sign + the huge cataract in the photo. Beware of spray off the rapids.
View of Jacobs River estuary with fishing boats, looking back to SH99 bridge
Yesteryears Cafe & Museum in Tuatapere
View of Mitre Peak looking down Milford Sound. Cloudy? Do your best!
Poolburn pub at intersection of Ida Valley Omakau Rd & Moa Creek Rd
This carpark by the station with a view of Puketapu hill in the background.
Outside this small building on the access road to Alliance's Pukeuri Plant at Pukeuri junction after Oamaru
Statue of merino ram in Omarama.
Outside, or filling up at, the Caltex garage in Haast.
Schooner Tambo & anchor - memorial to 42 shipwrecks - at road end Gibson Quay, Hokitika
Your last photo - outside Yaldhurst Hotel, the finishing post.
