Nzo Heritage
Sep 8, 2025
It's not about the bike
The Forest Loop is a thing that has been developed in my home town of Rotorua which gives more or less anybody a decent serve of the splendours of the location without being particularly challenging.
Sep 6, 2025
Grab a bike. Any bike.
This week I read an interesting point of view. It is on a website that is inclined to include experiences as often as hardware updates...
Jul 15, 2025
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A minor part of a recent project was extending a wifi network. I bought a device which has no other purpose for its existence, and put aside half an hour one evening to give the little unit its opportunity to shine.
Jun 13, 2025
Weather forecasts and reality
On Monday the weather doohickey on my phone said it was going to rain every day for the foreseeable future. Digging deeper into its predictions, there is a percentage figure next to the depressing little image of a cloud with water coming out the bottom.
Feb 28, 2025
Mountain biking. It's awesome.
You can have a perfectly good mountain bike ride on flat terrain. But to be honest, mountain biking needs mountains. Or at least decent hills.
Aug 2, 2024
The Paparoa Track
I got to experience the Paparoa Track on a recent trip to the top of the South Island, and I can't wait to go back and do it again. We were camping on the West Coast in the otherworldly little settlement of Punakaiki, at what must be one the top five campsites we have ever parked up in.
Jul 19, 2024
Swapping bikes for carpets
During the early nineties we spent a couple of years living in a VW Kombi. That little bus took us from San Francisco to eastern Turkey, before we doubled back to Germany where we parted ways.
Jul 5, 2024
What I reckon
It is that time of the year when keen people in our hemisphere are getting up at 2am to watch Le Tour de France. We are not, but we do have a look at the results first thing in the morning before doing anything much else.
Jan 19, 2024
A new year, same old stunts
Probably the highlight of my summer break was a visit from our son. I showed him around the new trails that have been created since his previous appearance, staying off the especially rowdy ones
Dec 1, 2023
The awesomeness of bicycles
There are lots of cool things about bicycles. I am probably preaching to the choir, but bikes are really amazing things if you take the time to think about it.
Nov 22, 2023
Return to Taupo
This weekend, for the first time in a few years, I am going to ride around Lake Taupo. Covid and cancer got in the way of a 22 year run broken only once, when a sort of dance mishap resulted in a toenail being peeled off.
Nov 17, 2023
The Pearl Pass Tour and me
We rode SlickRock several times, including one lap after midnight under a full moon. No lights, just following the white painted dots on the rock that mark the trail.