NZ tour – Ride 6: Te Mata Peak
Given that Eskdale didn't give us the momentum kick to riding that we had hoped for, it was time to mix it up after two days on the MTB and hit the road again to scope out more of the H Bay goodness and importa...
NZ tour – Ride 5: Eskdale MTB Park
Let me cut to the chase on this one gang - Here are the DN summary tips on how to have fun in the Eskdale MTB park:
Ride a 29er MTB
Take a proper map
Don't walk through stinging nettle
Make sure you're fit...
NZ tour – Ride 4: Rots Part 1
At last!!! A ride! Far fucking out... So many things in life are about momentum, be it at work, on a trip, shagging and in particular on a mountain bike - Momentum is key. Without it and you're toast, too much ...
Backing the wrong forest
Yesterday I was getting ready to very early on call this trip a blow out... But, with a few weeks to go that seemed very pessimistic to the point of verging on childish.
Well, today this spluttering and mali...
This wasn’t in the plan
4 days... Doesn't seem like a whole lot, but 4 days have passed. 4 days into 2014... and 4 days with NO rides.
What?! What script is this? This isn't the plan... this wasn't the storyboard that was put up on...
Where is the first ride of 2014?!
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaa... This post was supposed to be about my first ride for 2014 in the Eskdale MTB park just out of Napier, but oddly something happened to me on the first day in 2014 that happens extremely infrequ...
NZ tour – Ride 3: Hawkes Bay goodness
Warning - This is a scenery ramming post, so read on, but you have been warned!
I am going to try something different today, usually I smash you with 19 photos and some text, but today I thought it best to s...
NZ tour – Ride 2: Turoa ski field access road
It's always good to do something a bit different or unique... Mix it up a bit. Whilst most of the NZ trip is designed to be MTB orientated, with variable weather some road work is going to be on the cards, but ...
NZ tour – Ride 1: Craters of the Moon
In the late 90's and early 2000's there was ONE event or trip that I looked forward to above all others... I would hang out for it massively and couldn't wait for the boys to get together and head north. Yip, w...
DN – MIA…
Firstly, apologies at the radio silence… I have been absolutely Wifucked so far and if there is one thing that DN needs more than water and air to survive, its Wifi… I’m a Wijunkie and pretty much everything th...