May – Café run to the Sandbar, Mangawhai Heads

May – Café run to the Sandbar, Mangawhai Heads

There is something nice about Northland. No, it isn’t the Auckland traffic that needs battling to get there, but the scenery, the pace of life, maybe it’s the people. Whatever it is, we quite like it up there! We’d had a couple of great experiences at the Sandbar, so...
April – Café run to Kinloch, Lake Taupo

April – Café run to Kinloch, Lake Taupo

Kinloch – we’ve all seen the sign, but what IS down that road? As it isn’t a through road, many, us included, pass straight on by. Well, I can report riding in feels like entering a country club – a big golf fairway, a covered boat storage park, then an entire town of...
Waipu to Te Anau avoiding SH1

Waipu to Te Anau avoiding SH1

5,400kms, 13 days, 9 bikes, 14 people and endless sunshine! Come riding with us, we know where to go and how to get there! I don’t think this ride could have got any better! We set ourselves the challenge of getting from as far North to as far South without using...
Where can you go in a week? Or just a weekend?

Where can you go in a week? Or just a weekend?

Quite a long way really! With NZ’s summer sun beaming down on us, we had an impromptu week in the South Island, a trip to the East Cape and a really successful Café Run to Hawkes Bay. The Christmas Hols are notoriously busy on NZ roads due to school (and work!) summer...
Escape before the summer madness

Escape before the summer madness

After a fab morning in the sunshine at the market talking bikes to the good people of Morrinsville, we swapped bikes and headed for Awakino where we settled into the hotel with “a couple of jugs of Monteith’s black” over a good natter. We got lucky...
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