 fullsize Riding up toward Swampy Summit in Dunedin with some locals, this shot looks back toward the airport area. |
 fullsize Crash on the climb. |
 fullsize At a different point, almost to the summit, stopping for a food break. |
 fullsize I stopped for some food and a rest upon returning to the Octagon in the centre of town. |
 fullsize Crash on the water taxi out from Picton to Punga Cove in QC Sound. |
 fullsize Another wonderful QC view. |
 fullsize Crash on a climb looking over to the head of Kenepuru sound. |
 fullsize Crash with some local wild life. |
 fullsize Wheeeeeeeee. |
 fullsize The memorial on the road as we are about to descend into Portage Bay. |
 fullsize Crash with his climbing legs on. |
 fullsize Inspecting the brake pads to find the rear was metal on metal and the front was getting that way. |
 fullsize After the switch back descent there is a fun bit through some forest. |
 fullsize The final descent into Anakiwa is an absolute hoot. |
 fullsize Heidi and Crash looking on as Lisa got into some proper carbo loading for the team with her Beer Hat. |
 fullsize Crash checking out the chainring tree in Makara. |
 fullsize Crash approaching the carpark at Makara as we run out of daylight. |
 fullsize Heidi's brand new frame with the older bits hung off it, it sparkles in the sunlight rather nicely too. |
 fullsize The next 4 shots are to show off Island Bay from the house we stayed at. |
 fullsize See above. |
 fullsize And again. |
 fullsize It was a lovely sunny day finally so I took another shot out from the driveway. |
 fullsize Heidi had a habit of putting her beers down half finished and forgetting where they were, so someone made her the beer stubby necklace to stop that bad habit of hers. |
 fullsize Jim prepping for the 24 Hour race. |
 fullsize Crash prepping. |
 fullsize Lisa. |
 fullsize Heidi pondering tyre choice for the race. |
 fullsize The race start finish area. |
 fullsize Me about to head out for the first lap. |
 fullsize The bikes propped up and ready. |
 fullsize Jim about to head out for his first lap. |
 fullsize Jim handing over to Lisa. |
 fullsize Lisa on the move. |
 fullsize Ricky prepping for another two laps. |
 fullsize Heidi finishing a lap. |
 fullsize Ricky and Gary were riding in mens pairs. They had a rather cool pair of boards they switched status on when they finished laps to say how they were going. |
 fullsize I want to see a bunch of these at the Mont this year or similar. |
 fullsize Maybe we should offer them as a service to soloists and pairs or something. |
 fullsize Jim waiting for a lap start. |
 fullsize Crash finishing a lap and getting the baton off. |
 fullsize Start finish area sometime Sunday morning. |
 fullsize A few people out racing on the course. |
 fullsize Some competitor on one of the many sweet single track. |
 fullsize The entrance to the bridge area. |
 fullsize A bridge they erected two days before the race and intended to take down after the race. |
 fullsize This bridge allowed the course to cross over itself which was rather neat, it was also fun to ride down. |
 fullsize Jim comiing off the bridge on the final lap for our team in the race. |
 fullsize Garret (who was riding on another team), Crash and Jim post race. |
 fullsize After the race 8 of us returned to the accomodation for some light refreshments. |
 fullsize On Monday Gaz from N-ZO took us to Taupo to show us some cool riding, this is on a track above Huka Falls. |
 fullsize More Huka Falls, people Kayak over this from time to time, there is a hell of a lot of moving water there. |
 fullsize Pretty colour too, rather fresh water I suspect. |
 fullsize On Monday afternoon Gaz took us over to Kinloch for the KawaKawa bay ride, Jonno got a flat. |
 fullsize A viewing point from the track out over lake Taupo. |
 fullsize Gaz on some of the lovely beech style singletrack. |
 fullsize Crash pulling up for a quick rest. |
 fullsize One of the spectacular views from the track. |
 fullsize Crash getting ready to take a few photos. |
 fullsize Jonno kindly took a photo of the two of us, the camp site at KawaKawa bay is down at lake level between us. |
 fullsize Jonno had one of two Santa Cruz Nomads we saw while on the trip (the other belonged to Rob Smail in Rotorua), Jim said they are a rare bike, Gaz is sorel tempted to sell off anything he can to own one, apparently a nice bike to ride. |
 fullsize The view up to the rock behind Crash from two photos back from the campsite. |
 fullsize On Heidi's theory that all photos should have cycling gear in them, this is from the campsite. |
 fullsize The N-ZO offices/headquarters in Rotorua, Gaz has a disc rotor that is higher than Crash (over 6'2"). |
 fullsize The cool signposts at some of the tracks in the Redwoods park. Gunna Gotta is a newish track and one of the best I havce ever ridden, definitely a must ride in the park. |
 fullsize They have some harder tracks too. |
 fullsize Crash at the bottom of Gunna Gotta. |
 fullsize Mike Metz and Gaz in The Tickle where there was a flood a while back. |
 fullsize Crash. |
 fullsize Mike Metz has a Turner Duallie that weighs 9.5 KG. Ti spokes and all. |
 fullsize The view from the top of Hot Cross Buns. |
 fullsize Toward town. |
 fullsize And again. |
 fullsize We actually had bikes up here too. |
 fullsize The start of Be Rude Not To, some asshole has stolen the red sign so they had to put up a interim one. |
 fullsize The national Museum of New Zealand. |
 fullsize A Maori meeting place redesigned inside Te Papa. |
