Emma Bateup

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.

Emma Bateup lines up for 248 km of hard 'n' fast pedalling around Waimate in last year's Edition Zero Gravel.

Emma Bateup tackles her version of the 200 mile Rebound - a 321.87 km gravel road challenge knocked off in a 16.5 hour loop around Greater Wellington. All in a days work.

Always up for a dose of honest toil, Emma Bateup loads her Enduro rig with bikepacking kit and rides from Wellington to Kaikoura for a weekend of enduro racing at Middle Hill.

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".

Emma Bateup wards off lockdown lassitude as she pedals each and every street with 5km of her Nelson home.

Cati Pearson and Emma Bateup link the Paparoa, Old Ghost Road and Heaphy tracks in a gigantic loop in and out of Nelson over six monster days.