Activities
Paul organised the first national mountain bike race in New Zealand in 1986 - the Karapoti Classic. The Kennett Bros continued to run this annually until 2002, when they sold the event.
In 1997 they co-organised a round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Wellington.
In 1998 they started building the Wellington City Council owned Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park, which received a national recreation award in 2002 and a national conservation award in 2003.
From 2001 to 2006 the Kennett Bros coordinated a forest revegetation project at Otari-Wilton's Bush. 40,000 trees were planted over a five year period.
The Kennett Bros helped organise the 2006 Rotorua UCI_Mountain_Bike_&_Trials_World_Championships.
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