Hawkes Bay Trails: Highlights
Every trip has its highlights – and lowlights. Preferring to focus on the former, here are a few of the highlights from our three days in Hawkes Bay: The quality […]
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Hawkes Bay Trails Gallery
Photos taken on Hawkes Bay Cycle Trails: 20 – 23 November 2015
HBT Day 3: The Landscapes Ride
With Day 3 planned as another long day it was again an 8:00 am start, and quickly on the road to Napier for breakfast at Café Divine. Then south again […]
HBT Day 2: The Puketapu Loop
Napier City Bike Hire Our record of the Hawkes Bay Trails would not be complete without recording our appreciation of the quality of the service and bikes provided by Rachael […]
HBT Day 1: Hawkes Bay Warm-up
Hawkes Bay Trails Blog HBT Day 1: On the Road again Friday 20 November and the 5Men were on the road again. This time the Hawkes Bay Trails are the […]
Hawkes Bay is on the radar
Despite the success of the Great Taste Tasman trip, group activities for the 5Men have been conspicuous by their absence in the past few months. Whether it is the cooler […]
Great Taste Tasman Trail: Day 2 Revisited
Anyone who has used a phone GPS app to track a ride or run will be familiar with the problem of rogue data points, which are created where the GPS […]
GTT: The Movie
Given the need to concentrate on actually riding our bikes – and with no “GoPro” available, any filming of our trip was spasmodic at best. The following compilation however provides […]
GTT Day 1: Elisha Hobbs live
One of the attractions of travelling in a group is the chance to experience something different, which brings unexpected pleasure. It might be an unexpected view, or a very good […]
GTT Day 3: Mapua to Tahuna
Day 3 was intended as an easy return journey to Nelson, check in to the motel and – depending on the day – see something of Nelson. Given that this […]
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