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New Zealand, Tuatara Iti Bikepacking Race 2024
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Map & Photos
New Zealand, South Canterbury and Central Otago 2024
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Map & Photos
New Zealand, Marlborough, Nelson & Tasman 2023
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Map & Photos
New Zealand, Central Otago 2022
New Zealand, South & Mid Canterbury 2022
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Map & Photos
New Zealand, Canterbury & Otago 2021
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Map & Photos
New Zealand, Central Otago, Southland & Fiordland 2020
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Map & Photos
New Zealand, Otago & Southland 2019
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Map & Photos
TransAmerica, USA & Canada 2017
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Maps, photos & stuff
Germany, Denmark & Sweden 2016
Slovakia, Czech Republic & Poland 2015
Baltic Germany 2014
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Day 1 – Setting Sail
Day 2 – Training, part 1
Day 2 – Training, part 2
Day 3 – New Expectations, part 1
Day 3 – New Expectations, part 2
Day 4 – Cobbles, part 1
Day 4 – Cobbles, part 2
Day 5 – Each Other, part 1
Day 5 – Each Other, part 2
Day 6 – A Sprocket of a Day, part 1
Day 6 – A Sprocket of a Day, part 2
Day 7 – Bonking, part 1
Day 7 – Bonking, part 2
Day 7 – Bonking, part 3
Day 8 – Time Keeping
Day 9 – Homeward
Day 10 – I Love Germany
Poland & Slovakia 2013
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1 Mountain Mist and Burbling Brooks
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1 Map Day 1
2 Lonely Roads & Hectic Highways
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2 Map Day 2
3 Up, Up & Up
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3 Map Day 3
4 Into the Heavens
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4 Map Day 4
5 Quiet Pizza
6 Polish Roads
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06 Map Day 6
7 The After Chapter
Saaremaa, Estonia 2012
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1 Sauvere – Sääre
2 Sääre – Karala
3 Karala – Kooru forest
4 Kooru forest – Haagi
5 Haagi – Sauvere
Lithuania 2011
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Maps
Chapter 1
Chapter 2a
Chapter 2b
Chapter 2c
Photos
Lithuania 2010
Lithuania 2009
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"A journey of 4,000 miles begins with a stack of pancakes and one turn of the pedals"
David Barnas
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2024 - New Zealand - Tuatara Iti bikepacking Brevet - Otago & Southland
2023 - New Zealand - Marlborough, Nelson & Tasman - Top of the South
2022 - New Zealand - Central Otago - Pedalling the Pinot Trail
2022 - New Zealand - South & Mid Canterbury - The Last Stand
2021 - New Zealand, South Canterbury & North Otago - Alps to Alps
2020 - New Zealand, Central Otago, Fiordland & Southland - Around our Mountains
2019 - New Zealand, Central Otago, South Otago, The Catlins & Southland - Clutha Circle
2017 - TransAmerica, USA & Canada - Gloria Rides Red Bicycle
2016 Germany, Denmark, Sweden & Lithuania - Scando Serenity
2015 - Slovakia, Czech Republic & Poland - Wet Wonderings
2014 - Germany, Rügen & the Baltic Coast - Trails & Trials
2013 - Poland & Slovakia, Tatra Mountains - Church Bells & Cow Bells
2012 - Estonia, Saaremaa - Peddling the Dirt, Estonia
2011 - Lithuania, Klaipėda to Vilnius - Peddling the Dirt Across Lithuania
2010 - Lithuania, Klaipėda, Ventė, Nida, Klaipėda - Kuršiū Lagoon
2009 - Lithuania, Klaipėda to Nida return - The Beginning
2017 - Portsmouth, UK to New York USA - Have bikes, will sail