A BMX was impaled at the top of the monument at the Centre of New Zealand over the weekend.
Stoke’s Trina Hobbs went for a walk up the Centre of New Zealand on Sunday morning with some mums and their kids, when one of the kids spotted a bike at the top of the trigg point monument. “The wee ones saw it before we did. They started going on about bikes and then we saw it and we just laughed,” says Trina. “A few tourists were up there too and we were all just trying to work out how they got it up there.”
Trina took a photo and put it on Facebook, assuming that the bike had been stolen and hoping to find the owner. At the time Nelson Weekly went to print there were no claims but plenty of admiration at the ability to get the bike up there in the first place.
“They must have been pretty fit and pretty good at climbing,” says Trina.
Nelson woman Leanne Duncan says she was walking up the hill on Saturday night at around 8pm and saw a group of around eight teenagers drinking under the bike. “We didn’t think much of it at the time, just young guys drinking but we did think ‘oh my god, look at the bike up there’ when we first saw it.”
The monument was donated to the city of Nelson in 1968 by the Jaycees to celebrate their 21st anniversary in Nelson. It is an official surveyors trigg point to mark the centre of New Zealand on top of Botanical Hill.
