Australian mountain biker Mitchell Ho says he's received the best Christmas present of all time after winning a trip to take part in the Rotorua Bike Festival.
He's won return airfares for two to Rotorua for the Bike Festival in February and will be bringing with him his fiancee Jess from their hometown of Rockdale in New South Wales.
The competition was organised by Rotorua International Airport in conjunction with Australia's Flow Mountain Bike and Flowmountainbike.com.
"I'd been watching Flow's Top 10 Rotorua Trails videos the last couple of months. I kept thinking 'man, all these trails look awesome, but it'll be a while until I can get over there to ride them' - maybe one day."
"Fast forward to today and I'd just watched the final video when I got the call from New Zealand saying I'd won."
He said it was great timing as he'd just bought a new mountain bike for his recent birthday.
"I got into mountain biking when I was around 14, but eventually stopped to focus on bike trials. I bought a cross country bike in 2011 and it was great to get back on track.
"Being able to flow on single track is a great contrast to trials riding and it's excellent cross-training."
