NzoLand
Dec 16, 2022
The mountain biker's E bike?
This is a review of the Trek Fuel EXe, a great example of a new category of mountain bike. It will not be like any review you have read before.
Dec 2, 2022
Perseverance and cold feet
Around here the time has come for stepping directly out of the office footwear and into the bike shoes and hitting the trails without changing anything else about the outfit. Well, that is if your office outfit is Dobies and a T shirt.
Nov 18, 2022
A deep dive into New Zealand mountain biking history
The history of New Zealand mountain biking could arguably start sometime pre-WW2, when races like Round the Gorges were almost completely ridden on gravel. Mountain biking as we know it today got started in the 80s.
Nov 11, 2022
Earning (and previewing) your turns
I posted a photo on the Nzo Facebook page the other day which has received more than the usual amount of attention. I wouldn’t call it viral, especially after contracting COVID a few weeks back...
Oct 6, 2022
Sand and corrugations, and corrugations, and sand.
The morning schedule looks something like this: Stagger around in search of coffee. Having secured some, retire to window seat to check morning’s latest happenings.
Sep 15, 2022
Spinners and Stance bikes
Following on from our last post about how lucky kids in our hometown get to roam around the forest on their bikes as if they own the joint, here comes another example of a bicycle-based subculture liberating youngsters from their day-to-day lives. We found an excellent report from Soweto, South Africa this morning while we imbibed our morning joe.
Sep 8, 2022
A great place to be a lucky kid
When we were kids in Auckland, we got the keys to the city on the day we got bikes. Our home range of a couple of blocks became anywhere we could reasonably get back from by dark.
Aug 11, 2022
Goodbye, old friend...
This week one of our mates shared a fond farewell message she was directing to her Deanos, the first piece of Nzo kit she ever had, procured long before we got acquainted and became friends.
Jul 21, 2022
Bike riding and the End of Civilisation
Usually this communication muses about something mountain bike related, and if possible there is some sort of connection to a product we would dearly love to sell. This morning the subject is wider, bicycle riding in general, and the mystery of why the very sight of people on bicycles is so annoying to some people.
Jun 3, 2022
Don't try this at home
When Nzo got started we had a shop of our own. It was a long shot, there were nowhere enough mountain bikers to support that idea at the time, but we learned a lot. One of the very good things about that proto-shop was the opportunity it provided for yakking with mountain bikers about mountain biking.
Apr 30, 2021
The Photographer's Day Off
The man behind most of the decent photos in the Nzo story is Graeme Murray. We met on a mountain bike ride, shortly after we moved to Rotorua, the town we chose as a base to start Nzo.
Mar 12, 2021
Outrunning a deluge
It’s Thursday, which on my planet means the day after Wednesday. Hump day. It’s the day we generally do a trip to the coast for various reasons, and usually run out of time for bike rides.