During a cycle ride into town, and along the waterfront, took the chance to have a look at World's fifth-largest private yacht, Le Grand Bleu, which is visiting Auckland. It’s a remarkable boat: 113m/371ft long & powered by twin 2 x 4,570-hp engines.
GPS and Mapping
While the Garmin GPS’s can be used for cycling, my Legend does many km’s on the handlebar mount, they now have a model aimed specifically at cycling. In addition to the usual GPS things like position, speed they can also measure things like heart rate & cadence then
Cycling
Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday usually refers to the auto industry. It seems that Lance Armstrong’s success has proved the rule for cycling. Armstrong's Success Drives Cycle Sales “Americans purchased more bicycles than new cars and trucks combined in the past year - and all without employee
Cycling
The Tour de France Blog 2005 has a link to a wonderful double-page newspaper spread about Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France. Awesome illustration and great information. Tour de France 2005: To the double-truck web press, Batman!
Cycling
This looks like a fun event, 97 km from Hamilton to Pukekohe organised by the team that do the Rotorua Taupo Flyer through scenery like this. Cool, but it’s not all flat! Hamilton to Auckland Express : Cycle Ride/Race New Zealand
Cycling
This is neat, a bamboo mountain bike! Bamboo MTB Frame - Brano Meres This is my second home-made frame. This time I used bamboo instead of carbon composite tubes…
Adventure South
This is a quick update, will do proper posts when home. excuse the typo's racing the meter on a kiosk machine After a day in Dunedin joined the group. There are 8 cyclists + the two guides on this trip. It's a special only advertised to previous
Adventure South
Things will be quiet here for a couple of weeks as I’m heading of on another Cycling tour with Adventure South. This time its to “The Catlins” which is the southern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. I just hope it doesn’t snow
Cycling
I took my bicycle to New Plymouth last weekend as found a road on the map that looked interesting. Egmont Road climbs from the coast to the Mt Taranaki North Egmont Visitor Centre. I had been up there by car many years ago but thought it would a good ride
It was another fantastic day today with clear blue skies. I went for a ride to Muriwai; a black sand west coast surf beach about 40km north of Auckland. A few rural roads have been sealed that mean you can now do most of this trip without going near the
Another glorious day (28/02/2005): went for a bike ride around the top end of Auckland Harbour then down the North Shore, crossing from Devonport to the city by ferry, and home. This 90km ride has a bit of everything as covers rural, suburban and city roads. Some hills
Drive carefully, the road rules have changed. New road rules from 27 February 2005 From 27 February 2005, the new 'Road User' Rule will make it clearer what you should do at pedestrian crossings, special vehicle lanes (such as cycle and bus lanes) and roundabouts (particularly multi-lane
