Biking

The plan In 2023 we decided to bike the length of the country, guided by the Tour Aotearoa , but ...

We're not Bluffing Date: 19 March 2024 Our last day dawned chilly with clear blue skies and we set off ...

Cold, wet milestones Date: 19 March 2024 There was nothing much to see on what, on a fine day, would ...

Mataura has a waterfall, and precious little else Date: 17 March 2024 if you find yourself travelling south by car, ...

You call that flat?? Date: 16 March 2024 From Miller's Flat we crossed the Clutha to backtrack to Ettrick, where ...

Roxburgh Gorge & Clutha Gold Trails Date: 15 March 2024 Grade: 2, 3 These trails are among my favourite great ...

The Dunstan Trail Date: 12 March 2024 Grade 2,3 After a brief pilgrimage to Cromwell's industrial area to pick up ...

Otago light Date: 11 March 2024 Grade: 3/4 From Hawea we broke away from the Tour Aotearoa route to follow ...

Hello Otago Date: 10 March 2024 An easy day today - only 50 km to Hawea, and, to paraphrase the ...

The seventh day of awesome. Date: 9 March 2024 Just when you think the West Coast has shown you everything, ...

Another 10/10 ride Date: 8 March 2024 Post by Jill today, although I must add that these last 5 days ...

In praise of tourists Date: 7 March 2024 During daylight hours, Franz Josef is beset with a constant whap whap ...

A good, well-roadworked highway Date: 6 March 2024 Hotel Harihari was - interesting. Good food, very friendly owners, clean rooms, ...

A wee stroll before morning tea Date: 5 March 2024 Logistics and meteorology made a short day necessary, with an ...

On the trail again Date: 3 March 2024 Three days catching up with cuzzies -Grant, Sue, Ian, Drew & Liz ...

West Coast Wilderness Trail Date: 28/2/24 An easy 20 km of flat riding through the dunes along the beach and ...

It's all downhill from here Date: 27 Feb 2024 We had a grey day for the long Grey valley. It ...

And still one more pass Date: 26 Feb 2024 This time, the Rahu Saddle between Springs Junction and Reefton. Every ...

Another day, another pass Date: 25 Feb 2024 Comments by Jill today Well the weather gods are still on our ...

A downhill day Date: 24 Feb 24 For the ebikers out there, there's some interesting battery-use stats at the end ...

The Blenheim whine tour Date: 23 Feb 2024 Grade: 2 Well, it was a 67 km gentle but relentless climb ...

The Marlborough wineless tour Date: 22 Feb 2024 The local tourist website says that the mostly-flat valley road between Havelock ...

In praise of roadworks Date: 21 Feb 2024 Grade: 2 From Eastbourne we set off along the cyclepath beside the ...

Spectacular with a side order of Day 1 Date: 18 Feb 2024 Grade: 2,3 Our original plan to bike all ...

To the coast Date: 17 Feb 2024 There's a gentle cycleway between Greytown and Featherston, partly cycles only, and mostly ...

Side roads, deviations and byways Date: 16 Feb 2024 Grade: 2 Have you ever heard of the Norwegian church at ...

The Tararua Traverse Date: 15 Feb 2024 Grade: 2 There are three possible routes across the Tararuas: The Saddle road ...

We rode SH1! Date: 14 Feb 2024 Grade: 2 From Hunterville you have to sneak up the dreaded SH 1 ...

A regular rural ramble Date: 13 Feb 2024 An uplifting start today thanks to the Durie Hill Elevator, then a ...

Down the river Date: 10 Feb 2024 This is a nice ride. Tarsealed road, hardly any traffic, history, scenery, and ...

The Bridge to Nowhere Date: 9 Feb 2024 Grade: 2, 3 With only 40 km in total, including a gentle ...

A day off, heavy strategizing and bit of cheating Date: 8 Feb 2024 I won't trouble you with another post ...

Luck, luck, and more luck Date: 6 Feb Grade: 2, 3 We woke to sun shining on the forest all ...

Timber Trail Day 1 Date: 5 Feb 2024 Grade: 2, 3 We woke to a clagged-in and slightly chilly day, ...

Lunch with an old tree Date: 4 Feb Grade: 2 Rather than take the official TA route (65 km with ...

Maeraetai to Maraetai Date: 3 Feb 2024 We passed Maraetai on Tuesday and now we're at Lake Maraetai 5 days ...

Waikato River Part 2 Date: 2 Feb 2024 From Tamahere (thanks Mark and Alison for your house, pool, beers and ...

Cruising by the river Date: 1 Feb 2024 We took the old main highway from Huntly, stopping at Taupiri for ...

River or plains Date: 31 Jan 2024 From Miranda the traditional TA Route goes East to the Hauraki Rail Trail ...

The Hunua Traverse Date: 30 Jan 2024 Grade: 2, 3 After a 6 week rest to avoid the school holidays ...

and home ... Date: 18 Dec 23 The old state Highway 1 route from Warkworth is great now that the ...

Valleys and danger Date: 17 Dec 23 This is an unremarkable section except for the fact that it is a ...

More off-road than we expected Date: 16 Dec 2023 There is a water taxi service across the Whangarei heads run ...

Just missed Whangarei Date: 15 Dec 23 Grade: 2 We packed up early had a big breakfast across the road ...

Originally to Whananaki but ... Date: 14 Dec 2023 Originally I had a plan that took a shortcut between Helena ...

Back roads over the saddle Date: 13 Dec 2023 We biked around to Ohakura via the Whakapura pass, a steep ...

Twin Coast Trail Date: 12 Dec 23 A short ferry ride in the late morning to Mangungu put us the ...

Road day Date: 11 Dec 2023 I had been worried about this leg because it has become the main route ...

With the wind Date: 10 Dec 2023 The wind did a 180 and it was so nice to cruise and ...

A short day to catch up with the Plan Date: 9 Dec 2023 A leisurely start after yesterday's effort riding ...

DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ROUTE Date: 8 Dec 2023 Grade: 2 Firstly, getting the bikes to Kaitaia did not go ...

Helmets are not the answer Wearing a helmet might protect us against a some of the dangers of riding a ...

Heading slowly back to Picton Charleston Date: 23 Feb 2023 Grade: 2 We thought we should complete the last portion ...

Ferry delayed = bonus holiday Charming Creek Date: 13 March 2023 Grade: 2 While staying up at Seddonville in the ...

Back to Mackenzie Country Lake Ohau Date: 2 Mar 2023 Grade 2 Easy ride on gravel roads to a place ...

Queenstown Cycling sans QT Date: 26 Feb 2023 Grade: 2, maybe 3 in small sections After yesterday's effort we decided ...

Brew Chop Day Date: 25 Feb 2023 Grade: 4 Welcome Rock is a private trail around a peak south of ...

Te Anau | Milford Lake Marian Date: 23 Feb 2023 Just down the Hollyford Rd off the Milford Rd - ...

Mavora Mavora Lake Walk Date: 19 Feb 2023 Grade: 2,3 Comments go here Mavora - Von Valley head Date: 20 ...

The much-hyped jewel in the crown Date: 14 Feb 2023 Grade: 2,3 Having just done the Upper Clutha, for example, ...

Three rides around Wanaka Hawea - Wanaka Feb 11 2023 Grade 2. Nice gentle day Upper Clutha and Newcastle Loop ...

Jet boat up the Waiatoto River. Sandflies. Whitebaiters' cribs/batches, and a gentlish , eco-commented ride way up the river to ...

Lake Kaniere Around the Lake Date: 4 Feb 23 Grade: 2 Staying at the lake for a few days gave ...

Christchurch - Buller Hanmer Trails Date: 26 Jan 23 Grade: 2,3 While waiting for Jill to do the Heaphy Track ...

All the tour plus one Day 1 - Braemar Rd Date: 30 Nov 22 Grade: 2 An alternative to the ...

Should be a Great Ride Date: 26 Nov 22 Grade: 2 CA few years ago we stayed in Kaikoura for ...

Cape Campbell Date: Grade: 2 Our first stop off the ferry was Marfells Beach DOC Camp, just out from Seddon ...

Got a spare day waiting for the ferry? Date: 23 Nov 2023 Grade: 2 A real surprise. We were staying ...

We thought we would take a look at the new Mangere Bridge, which is kind of cool with all the ...

Day 2 - Great Lakes Trail Second day at Kinloch and we decided to do the top section, the W2K ...

Great riding on the Great Lake Trail We've been meaning to get to the Great Lake Trails ever since we ...

Septic arthritis and riding don't mix. Short story: If you get a chronic infection in your knee, don't expect to ...

Maitai Bay Beaches https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/northland/places/karikari-peninsula/things-to-do/maitai-bay-campsite/ Top of Doubtless Bay Taipa Loop Komoot rates this as 55% single track, but I reckon ...

10 Feb 2019 Decided to get some knives sharpened, so took them to Hobsonville Markets where the nice friendly guy ...

Too brief, so friendly I've given up trying to keep maps. The GPS logger wasn't behaving and Croatia has infected ...

This will be my last post on this trip, I suspect. It's too hard on a phone to get everything ...

Bodonsee downhill Our gasthaus owner in Lindau told us about the gondola up their big local peak, Pfander, so we ...

A periperambulation 10/3/2018 lindau uberlingen 65k 50% 10/4/2018 uberlingen konstanz 5k 50% new rear tyre Steve's bike 10/5/2018 konstanz lindau ...

Salzburg We took the train to Salzburg to avoid the rain, and sure enough it stopped and we arrived to ...

Donauradweb I might add maps later,but it's a bit fiddly to do on my phone, and not all that interesting ...

Big, symmetrical, impressive and inexplicable. Went out for a walk when we arrived, 30 minutes to the center if we ...

Czechia to Austria 15/09 80k, 1 1/2 battery fulls, lots and lots of off-piste and climbing. Excellent mountain biking most ...

Tabor to Trebon 12/09 50% battery use, mostly roads, not much off-piste, and fairly uppy Downy although nothing too serious ...

To Tabor 11/09 75k, but 90% battery use due to a lot of climbing Typically lovely Czeck country all day, ...

Prague to Lesany 10/09 About 10k faffing about in Prague today before I hit record, so about 65k, hilly, and ...

Racice to Prague GPS recording stopped 29k from the end, so 80k today. 85-90% battery use and we're in Prague ...

From the border to Usti nab Labem 45k and fairly nice. Very industrial as we got near to usti nab ...

Schmilka - cutest town so far Had a wee glimmer of powered flight this morning when it worked for a ...

Just looking around Searching for a Bulls ebike agent, but no luck anywhere so we did a bit of sightseeing ...

But we took a train to Dresden 40k to Torgau this morning in very flat and not-very-interesting countryside, and the ...

I prefer manual power really. Not as far as we wanted to go today, but no battery use to speak ...

Record day Took a train to Beelitz for a head start, to give us about a 60k ride. With a ...

Berlin Just to record the ride from Jack's place to the station, our first with batteries, but I didn't turn ...

Potsdam Very nice day. Bit of history, bit of nature and flammenkuch. Thanks Jack ...

Berlin on a Sunday I don't know about these countries that base their lives around a recent interpretation of the ...

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Berlin - Prague - Vienna - Saint-Nazaire Arriving in and leaving from Amsterdam, we're going to take the train to ...

There's a lot of chatter on a Facebook group, Bikepacking New Zealand, where people keep asking if it is possible ...

Greymouth to Ross, do the whole thing because they need the tourism or they will keep on mining or damning ...

Choose a perfect Wellington day, no wind, no clouds, warm, in fact a typical day in the capital. Get yourself ...

Waikato River Ride and Te Awa Four days with Judy Yeoman and Mike Brockie, both hardened by years of international ...

A few weeks ago we took a small trip around Panmure and Glen Innes taking in Maungarei (Mt Wellington in ...

One of our aims is to bike up all of the maunga around Auckland. This one takes in the new ...

From home to the boat at Hobsonville Marina, find our way around the harbour to the NW bike link to ...

The car ferry is a treat. It chugs along at 11-12knots (I checked on Navionics, my navigation app), dead calm ...

60K around the harbour from Northcote to Beachhaven ...

Best inner tubes The best multitool, small, strong and all you need for day tripping. If the job needs a ...

Beachhaven loop 27/12/16 Home - Ferry terminal Google est 40min each way Waiheke 4 Feb Tour de Birkenhead ...

26/11/2016 Section 1 Nice little jaunt along the Karapiro with Mark and Alison ...

New bikes, Bull E-Stream Evo 3 FS 27.5 - one each for Jill and me - and we set off ...