Hong Kong is a funny country for riders. According to the internets there are none, twenty minutes battering Google failed to bring up a single one. Yet when you land here, you have to ask why? It has all the ingredients for one of the best riding spots in the world: both altitude and gradient. The mountains surrounding the city are all big and steep. I’d reckon a 1500m (vertical) descent wouldn’t be off the cards and there are no gentle slopes here. Imagine steep, tech runs through the tropical undergrowth... Japan has a good scene, so why not Hong Kong?

The only reason I can see is the ground. As you climb up through the mountains you can see the pale yellow scars where the earth could no longer cling onto the hillside. Long, sweeping curves show where landslides have stripped the side of the mountain back to bare rock.

Surely a riding location with big, steep mountains, the ocean, the city close by, equatorial weather and a taste for ambitious chairlifts could be the perfect riding location... One day... Maybe.

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The locals must not be trusted to manage the chairlifts though. The 25 minute Ngong 360 cable car has a new feature – “Crystal”. For some demented reason they’ve decided that what a chairlift that consistently travels over 100m off the ground needs is... A glass floor. People even pay more for this. Ugh. Wrong.