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Lake Taupō Cycle Challenge

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Lake Taupō Cycle Challenge

Contestants push up the last stretch of a round-the-lake race in 2008. The 160-kilometre Lake Taupō Cycle Challenge attracts about 8,000 recreational cyclists each year.

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Jamie Mackay, Bicycles – Bicycles for work and leisure, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23433/lake-taupo-cycle-challenge (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Jamie Mackay, published 6 April 2010.