Frank’s New Zealand by bike

A couple of months ago, while browsing a NZ Cycle Touring group on Facebook, I saw a post by Frank about his planned NZ tour. It included a stretch from Queenstown to Te Anau and I, along with several others, recommended crossing the lake and cycling the Von Valley. I’ve ridden several times with Adventure South (~0:13:00 in the video) and, although gravel road, it is a nice alternative the busy main highway.

Over the past month or so I have been enjoying following his travels via his “Frank
By Bike” page and now there’s an awesome video recap. It has been a great way to re-live some cycling I’ve done—most of his South Island route but on much easier supported tours!—and see a few North Island rides I’ve yet to do.

The Rimutaka cycle trail, Urewera National Park Rd and Karangahake Gorge trails look well worth investigating. Thanks for sharing your ride Frank, makes me want to get out there again!

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PS: Frank seems to to have purchased most of his riding/camping gear from Torpedo7 and it was great to see their Queenstown store were quick to repair his bike after it was damaged by a transit bus operator! (~0:11:00 in video). Franks video is a pretty good demonstration of their tagline: “See you out there!”.