Bikepacking

Cati Pearson & Tysin Langridge experience the many stunning highs and lost lows of the Tour du Mont Blanc.

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.

Cati Pearson and crew head off on an old faithful bikepacking overnighter – the Waihāhā Hut Track on the western side of Lake Taupō – spiced up with an unexpectedly challenging hike-a-bike out via Waihora Lagoon.

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.

Cati Pearson and Tysin Langridge ride an extended loop from Picton taking in the Waikakaho Track and Nydia Track. Their enduring optimism surviving a Christmas gift of extreme wet weather for much of the trip.

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.

Cati Pearson extended her Labour Weekend into a 5 day bikepacking trip on Great Barrier Island. The ride kicked off with a pedal along Te Ara i Whiti/Lightpath to board the ferry from downtown Auckland.

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.