Trip News

March Tour - Southland to Northland 16th - 24th March (plus getting there & back) Here is a readymade holiday for you.  We've got the routes planned, we've found fun accommodation within walking distance of dinner each night, we've even supplied all the links...

Way back in 2019 we vowed to see more of the world by bike and this year we started to make good on that promise, hiring Motorcycles out of Vancouver, Canada for a 6 day loop of British Columbia. We had a ball – as you’d expect when we get to ride bikes for 6 days...

Our monthly runs have been continuing... even if our writeups are a little sporadic!  MAY 2023 - Hunua Falls Cafe (Recently re-opened) We met at Hunua Falls, South of Auckland for our first cafe run after our big nationwide trip in March. Speed limits are...

We ticked off a few bucket list items this trip: Dave finally made it to Cape Reinga Cliff rode from Cape Reinga to Bluff Venkat and Sowmya rode 2-up around the South Island for the first (but likely not the last) time Every March, we ride NZ for a week. Andrew and I...

We ordered sunshine for our Cafe run to Waihi Beach today and that's what we got, served up alongside a yummy breakfast and great coffee. Andrew was lusting after a freak shake from Whangamata so we headed there next and caught the tail end of Beach Hop. Freak shakes...

Another 1,000km weekend over 3 days. 8 of us converged on Ohakune for two nights of socialising and a day ride out together on the middle day. We were much luckier with the weather than our very wet month of rides in June last year! Amazing to see the damage from...

A lovely local low key bimble today. We started with a nice brunch at the Butcher's shop cafe in Patumahoe, South of Auckland, then took the back roads across to Hunua and Kaiaua through to Whitford. Plenty of views of the nice calm estuary and across to the...

  Every March for the last 15+ years, we’ve ridden a lap of this little country of ours. It’s fair to say that sometimes we wonder how we’re going to keep it interesting. But without fail, we’re still wowed by the amazing scenery and the people who come riding...

  Twelve bikes, two breweries and the sun shining around the East Cape – fabulous! I’d discovered the Sunshine Brewery within ambling distance of the campground in Gisborne and made a note to include it in a future tour. Then we heard that Mata had a brewery and...

This was a concept we dreamed up last year to fill the void following NZ’s COVID lockdown when we were supposed to be overseas on a celebration trip. Instead with COVID still looming, we sorted a weekend ride for every weekend in June. Minimal organization, and no...

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...

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...