Bikepacking

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.

Deane Parker & Dylan Gerschwitz capture the grandeur, emotion and hurt of the Kopiko Aotearoa.

Ground Effect Revolutionary Ollie Whalley blasted 1319 backcountry kilometres down the spine of Aotearoa's South Island to complete the Tour Te Waipounamu in a daunting five and a half days. He shares the highs, lows and a few insights for the uninitiated from the world of extreme bikepacking.

Along with 50 other masochists, Olley Whalley prepares for the Tour Te Waipounamu - a 1319 km and 22,810 vertical metre backcountry traverse of Aotearoa's South Island from Cape Farewell to Slope Point.

Deane and Rose belt out a two day bikepacking adventure right on Christchurch’s back doorstep - skirting around the extinct volcano that forms Lyttelton Harbour on the Banks Peninsula.

Once you immerse yourself in the Australian Outback and truly experience its beauty, you’ll find yourself constantly daydreaming about returning and scheming as to how to venture deeper and further into its vast emptiness.

Fifteen blokes on tour; varying interpretations of gravel-appropriate bikes; endless ruminations on tyre width; progress measured in pubs and pints; and cols marked with a wee dram. What could possibly go wrong?

Deane Parker and his gang of usual suspects packraft the upper reaches of the Whanganui River to the Bridge to Nowhere, mountain bike the Matemateonga Track to the Whangamomona Pub, and hitch a ride (almost) back to their starting point on golf carts converted into railway jiggers.