Bikepacking

Joe Houghton tests out the bikepacking/enduro trip combo with a 10 day summer journey from Arthur's Pass to Blenheim. A great shakedown for his 2024 plan to spend three months pedalling across Europe, racing a few Enduro World Cups and the Megavalanche along the way.

In typical understated fashion, Emma Bateup takes us along through the highs, lows and pain of her sub-six day blast down the South Island on Aotearoa’s toughest bikepacking race.

Tony Hutcheson’s troublesome illegitimate Beervet returns to Central Otago with the usual antics and protagnists enjoying mixed weather, new-ish terrain and splendid southern hospitality.

Jimmy Ashby prepares for the 2023 edition of the Three Peaks Bike Race - an unsupported bikepacking event from Vienna to Barcelona via checkpoints in the Dolomites, Massif Central and Pyrenees.

Jimmy Ashby reconnects with the dramatic countryside and engaging culture of SE Asia on a leisurely (by Jimmy’s standards) six week pedal around Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

Cati Pearson and 10 of her Mud Maiden mates bikepack 215 km of cycle trails, singletrack and rain from Hamilton to Taupō.

Jimmy Ashby reflects on the inaugural Rhino Run bikepacking race across Southern Africa... 2750 long, hot and dusty self-supported kilometres from Stellenbosch in South Africa to Windhoek in Namibia. Immensely hard but with big emotional pay back.

Ground Effect Revolutionary Emma Bateup was first woman home in the 1331 km off-road traverse of Te Waipounamu. Storming down the motu in six and a half days, Emma tells her story of the "best and most brutal week of riding".

Cati Pearson relives the pain and elation of racing 1331 km down the length Aotearoa's South Island in the Tour Te Waipounamu extreme bikepacking event.

Deane Parker takes an enthusiastic new-to-bikerafting crew on a loop of Sumner Forrest Park. His video tells the story and provides plenty of inspiration for aspiring bikerafters.

The covid-interrupted 3rd edition of the Kiwi Beervet was at short notice relocated from Coromandel to Tasman/Golden Bay. Replete with gravel hyperbole and country pub libations, Tony Hutcheson tells it like it (almost) was.

Jimmy Ashby and Chad Freak ride 1100km from Perth to Laverton WA, and then 1350km on the remote and rugged Anne Beadell Highway across the Great Victorian Desert to Coober Pedy SA.