Cape Epic 2024
The Cape Epic claims to be ‘The Race that Measures All’. Over its 20 year history it has earned the accolade as being the toughest mountain-bike stage race in the world. So how does it actually measure up? The course … Continued
Peaks Challenge Falls Creek 2024
Peaks Challenge. 235 kilometres, 4500 vertical metres, 3 major climbs. Named by GCN as one of the top 10 one day gran fondos. I first heard about this event when we went to Bright on a short trip in the … Continued
Diary of a Multisport Newbie
New Zealand is the perfect environment for multisport races, with its wild rivers and uncompromising terrain. The Coast to Coast is the most well known of these, and if you want to find out more, you’re where I was about … Continued
Singapore and Chiang Mai by Bike
One of things we love about travelling with our bikes is the feeling that you get when, having figured out when and where to ride, you know your way around a city and have found favourite places to eat and … Continued
Rarotonga Adventure – Around and Across the Island
Rarotonga may be the largest of the Cook Islands but it is still just a tiny, mountainous speck in the enormity of the Pacific only measuring 11km across its widest axis. It is encircled by a lagoon and protecting reef, … Continued
Journey to The Forgotten World
After having multiple planned cycling events cancelled in Europe over the last 2 years, we were looking forward to a summer of races and sportives in New Zealand. Sadly, the omicron variant finally breached the NZ border and thanks to … Continued
Fiordland Classic 2022
Fiordland is a wild and spectacular part of New Zealand. On a recent trip there in February 2022, organised by Ride Holidays, we were lucky to experience some of the best the region has to offer the cyclist. This is … Continued
Waikato River Trails in a Day (2021)
When I’ve driven by the sign to the Waikato River Trails, which start about 30 minutes drive from Hamilton, the city we live in, I imagined a gravel track along the bank of the mighty Waikato River. Something like the … Continued
Mont Ventoux by the ‘Fourth’ Way
I had wanted to ride up Mont Ventoux by the mysterious ‘fourth’ way ever since I heard rumour of it during the trip in 2007 when I first rode up the mountain. The three classic routes up are road climbs … Continued