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Cati Pearson pedals Coromandel over New Year – packing 120 km and 3000 m of climbing into two days. Nice to burn off New Year's excesses, but her top tip would be to extend the itinerary to three days.

Jane Shearer and Chris Nelson circumnavigate Taiwan – delighting in local cuisine, dodging typhoons and grappling with the local road code that includes the committing 'Taiwan Turn' into oncoming traffic.

As part of an international crew of seven women, Ella Wake cycles 833km down the length of Sri Lanka over ten days. They have raised over $20K for Hey Sister to help fund higher education for 13 Sri Lankan orphaned girls.

John and Jenny Mote cycle tour through Somerset, Devon, Bretagne and Normandy to watch their granddaughter Ellesse Andrews triumph in the velodrome at the Paris Olympics.

Bicycle Queensland

Tanning is so 1980s, and being sun-safe matters. We sent our friends at BQ across the ditch a Flare and Solaris sunshirt for testing in the harsh QLD sun - they're comfortable, made in New Zealand and they were really impressed!

Emma Bateup recounts her challenging bike to, hike carrying bike, and bike home from the Tararua Southern Crossing.

Wolter Kuiper recounts his Christmas inspired ride, not to Bethlehem or Nazareth, but through the Victorian bush to Mt Jerusalem and beyond.

Brian Alder follows up guiding an Escape Adventures cycle tour in Kyrgyzstan with a tilt at one of the premier international bikepacking events – the Silk Road Mountain Race.

Joe Houghton rides his 'Four Corners' of Whistler. A formidable 108 km of trail and 4565 m of climbing over 14 hours.

Emma Bateup deals with altitude and phobia of the local fauna as she races the 500 mile Colorado Trail from Denver to Durango.

Ground Effect continues to flourish after thirty years designing and making our cycle garb in Aotearoa. Incident free it has not been. A few years ago we made a video about some of our more impressive flops.

A few years back we made a video about the genesis of Ground Effect. It was fun to produce and is still reassuringly relevant today.