Touring Rides
Travelling with your e-bike on long distance buses in Aotearoa New Zealand
First hand guide to travelling Aotearoa with bikes and buses
Read MoreA family bike adventure with Te Huia train
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, as the saying goes. That’s certainly been the case for us moving from Sydney to Aotearoa and finding that there’s almost no train services with which to combine bike travels. NSW is not exactly a world leader for interregional public transport, but the options for bike…
Read MoreSailing adventure with a Brompton side
After completing this trip, my mum reminded me of something I’d forgotten. When we moved to Auckland from Sydney in 2015, I’d told her that I aimed to do two things that were relevant to our new home: learn te reo Māori and learn to sail. Well, one of those two things had been working…
Read MoreEBT Timber Trail team trip – ride report
Continuing our Matariki tradition of a team trip away into a second year, the team went for a weekend away to ride the Timber Trail in the Pureora forest. There were many contenders for where to see in the new year – would it be in Northland, on the Pou Herenga Tai – Twin Coasts…
Read MoreProper E-bike Covers for cars/caravans
We often get asked about bike covers. We stock a very simple, cheap and lightweight bike cover that is designed for when your bike is sitting on your deck of balcony. However, when used while driving around the country at 100kph for thousands of kilometres, reports are that it will come back home as rags! This leads to the obvious question – what is a fit-for-purpose solution for travelling around Aotearoa with an e-bike on the back of a car or caravan exposed to the elements?
Read MoreOld Ghost Road by electric bike – ride report
The short story – Maurice and his mum’s modified (offroad wheels) eZee Sprint Alfine T4 with 700Wh battery rode the Old Ghost Road over 24 hours, including staying overnight at the spectacular Ghost Lake Hut. A blissful time was had for the first half of the trip. The fun rapidly diminished exactly when the battery ran out after the Boneyard climb. Ready for the (very) long story?
Read MoreElectric Bike Touring info evening!
In 2007, Maurice Wells made his first electric bicycle from a used bike and a conversion kit and gifted it to his mother in Canberra. Meanwhile Wai Won Ching, was heading off to ride across the entire Silk Road on his flagship long distance electric bicycle, the eZee Torq. Since that time, Ching has tackled…
Read MoreeZee Bikes on the Ocean to the Alps Ride
Day 1 – Oamaru to Duntroon (54km) I had been gagging to go on the Alps to the Ocean trail for a couple of years. A nice long ride with lot’s of beautiful scenery sounded like my kind of thing. Then I had the idea of taking electric bikes and going the other way so…
Read MoreSocial Ride Saturday Sep 1, R&M visits Auckland and more from our latest newsletter!
The content below was from our recent Newsletter email-out. You can subscribe to our newsletter here. Riese and Muller visits Auckland Boutique electric bike manufacturer Riese and Muller from Germany is visiting down under. We’ve been stocking their bikes for almost a year now and will be hosting a ‘Meet and Greet’ with their representatives…
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