Bikepacking

Iceland Divide

18 October 2022

Wanaka-based conservation, adventure and wildlife filmmaker Richard Sidey captures his 8 day solo mission across Iceland.

Cape Palliser Bikepacking and Backtracking

04 October 2022

Ground Effect staffer Cherie hooks up with friends and family to tie a figure eight around the Wairarapa, linking Greytown, Martinborough and Cape Palliser.

Bikepacking & Trail Running in Europe

14 September 2022

Jess Rathgen and Ryan Carr travel by bike to link up hard core trail running missions in the Pyrenees and the French Alps.

Pete Meffan chronicles his adventures bikepacking the length of the UK on the GB Divide in a four part video series. 60% of the 2000 km is off-road, and there is nearly 30,000 m of climbing. Hard but rewarding.

Speed of Sound

07 June 2022

Ground Effect staffer Cherie and her sister Katie join the latest Kennett Bro's bikepacking brevet - the Sounds to Sounds. The ride traverses Te Waipounamu from Ship Cove in the Marlborough Sounds to Milford Sound in Fiordland.

Moving Mountains

09 November 2021

Beautiful images and emotions from the iconic Paparoa Track on the South Island’s West Coast.

Doing The Triple +

15 December 2020

Jane and Chris bikepack from their home in Queenstown up the West Coast to Nelson, taking in three iconic mountain bike trails - the Paparoa Track, Old Ghost Road and the Heaphy.

Ashburton Lakes Brevet

27 October 2020

Ground Effect graphic designer and creative whizz Liam Crozier reflects and philosophises after a hard 'n' fast masochistic winter sortie into the Canterbury High Country on the Ashburton Lakes Brevet.

Kōpiko Aotearoa

18 March 2020

Cherie, Ground Effect's 'Chef de Tous Choses' reflects on long days of gravel and pie-free diet on the inaugural Kopiko Aotearoa bikepacking event from Cape Egmont to East Cape.

Ciclocultura Colombiana

13 November 2018

"Stay safe", everyone said. "Be careful". Their fear and concern were infectious, by the time we left for Colombia I had to keep myself away from the internet, stop searching for tales of mayhem and terror there. Four weeks later, this picture records the reality we encountered - welcoming, helpful with not a hint of danger.

An Icelandic Rabbit Hole…

20 August 2018

Why go biking in Iceland? There are easier (and definitely warmer) places in the world and it's a long way from NZ. In 2014 we were thinking of rekindling our youth with an overseas bike trip in Europe, and then on the spur of the moment opted for Iceland. We had no idea what the cycling was actually like there, and certainly not of the rabbit hole this choice would take us down…

Bush and Beach Epic in QLD, Australia

11 July 2018

Ground Effect customer Neil Ennis and his mates recently completed a 700km trip through the bush and beaches of South East Queensland. Neil only realised duing the second half of the trip that ALL of the team had chosen to wear Ground Effect tops. He sent us his journey in pictures, and the link to his trip blog.

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