I’ve been off the bike for a few weeks, which is why posts have stopped. I find being on the bike has been the perfect time to think about what to write, but off bike, not so much. Since the last post, I arrived in Auckland with a Bike in […]

42 Days until I Start. Remember back in the 1800s when you pondered over hand-drawn maps by candlelight to get excited about your up-and-coming horse-and-cart journey through the unforsaken lay of the land to get to a better life? Yeah, me neither. What about in the mid-late 1900s when you […]

49 Days Until I Start Part of my planning was to work out what to do when I wasn’t riding.Being (OCD) Bike Cautious, I’m not about to stray too far from my main form of transport.I’m intellectually and very rudimentary ‘not-so-smart” even to work out how to play Sudoku, or […]

53 Days until I start Yeah, you read that one right. “Mehh-hanicals,” otherwise known in the English language as “Mechanicals.” Oh Boy, oh Boy.Things were going good until about 40ish km in, and I must have rolled over a nail to receive a special gift from the “Roads of Winton” […]

62 days until I start Fact: Based on my last seven big 100km+ rides, “little” ole me is burning, on average, 5000 calories per Ride.  How do I know this? Well, move in closer, me-friend; let me tell you some stuff. I wear a Myzone heartrate monitor that connects to my […]

68 days until I start   Part Two brings us to the how and what I will carry but also the Why How? – how do you carry everything except for the Stainless Steel Kitchen Sink (joking, We have a Butlers Sink in our Kitchen and that bitch is heavier […]

75 days until I start You have to consider several things when going on a multiday ride. What type of bike should you ride for these adventures, how does that Bike need to be set up, what gear do you need to take, and how do you carry all this […]

82 days until I start Shouldn’t you start training for this? This is what I kept getting asked. And it is a fair question, so thank you for your support.But, me peeps! I’ve been training for 30-odd years, so I’m good. I’ve also been eating some donuts, but who counts […]

89 days until I start Planning How to start, how to get there, what you need to navigate your way. The Route I plan to take. North Island, then the South Island Planning to ride New Zealand on a push bike (get it, “push…bike”) is an interesting exercise. There are […]