Long before we left Canada, Rotorua was on the radar to hit up. Between a review from my previous boss (Cam Sorensen – Bike Park Manager @ Silvestar Mountain Bike Park) and the Crankworx publicity, we knew Rotorua was going to be an all-time destination for mountain biking. What we couldn’t of planned for is just … Continue reading Biking NZ Part 5: Rotorua (aka RotoVegas)
A years gone by and we’ve managed to live in our tiny home on wheels while traveling, snowboarding, mountain biking and working. It’s been a year of assessing our wants vs. needs by keeping track of expenses and focusing on a realistic budget most fitting with our income(s) and lifestyle. To keep it simple, we allocated and organized our spending into … Continue reading Vanlife Pt. 6: A Yearly Budget
There’s a new craze taking off in the mountain biking community for those who want to venture off, spend some time away from the crowds and connect with nature in the remote backcountry. Bikepacking, it’s in and it’s only getting more popular with advances in gear to store and carry along all you could ever … Continue reading Bikepacking 101: It’s coming in Hot
Part 4 of the NZ biking series brings us a lot closer to our home base of Rotorua last summer in a small town known for its logging operations and low income neighbourhoods named Tokoroa. What most people don’t know, even those involved in the mountain biking scene is that this place has some of the … Continue reading Biking NZ Part 4: Tokoroa
We’ve been in New Zealand for almost a year now and the time travelling around both the North and South islands while working, snowboarding and mountain biking has gone by too fast. There’s still so much we want to explore and learn about this amazing country! Here’s 10 more things we’ve learned, embraced and love … Continue reading The Kiwi Experience Pt.2
Another trail with some history brings us to the Timber Trail in the Pureora Forest region between Lake Taupo and Te Kuiti. The trail takes advantage of the old logging Ongarue Tramway used to harvest trees of the forest in early 20th century. Rail lines were built to get the trees out, camps were built to … Continue reading Biking NZ Part 3: Timber Trail
Right from birth we have choices to make and those choices are limited by what is available to us. In some cases children are born into wealth and have many choices of what toys to play with, which room to play with them in, and which beach resort house to play at with those toys, … Continue reading Play the Hand You’re Dealt
Winters over and we’ve decided to migrate from Wanaka to Christchurch to enjoy the summer biking around Canterbury and the rest of the south island. Living in a bigger metropolis has given us a similar feeling of home. The decision of moving to a big city like Christchurch meant we were going to risk the … Continue reading Vanlife Pt.5: Finding Balance
The North Island of New Zealand is ground to a variety of many different landscapes, and somewhere near the middle is Tongariro National Park. In some places within the park like the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing hike, it could be regarded as one of the busiest places to visit, whereas other hikes/bikes have been some of … Continue reading Biking NZ Part 2: Tongariro National Park
One of the main reason for visiting New Zealand stems from the rumor that they have a dense network of bike trails across the country. It turns out this is no rumor and once we started biking, it soon became real that it was going to be quite a task to ride all the trails … Continue reading Biking NZ Part 1: Windy Wellington
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