Tour Aotearoa North Island Bikepacking Part1

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Tour Aotearoa North Island Bikepacking Part1

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Carl Mortimer

Күн бұрын

Cycling the Tour Aotearoa Day 1-5
Bikepacking the North Island of New Zealand

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@Raveler1 6 ай бұрын

I enjoyed your thanking the cows for giving way. That's good manners! Thanks for posting your adventures!

@cmortimernz 6 ай бұрын

Such polite animals. Cheers

@davemorriss2552 6 ай бұрын

Looking for something to ride to on the bike trainer during our cold Canadian winter, great videos. Having bike toured NZ both Islands, this has brought back so many great memories and familiar places,. I'll ride all to the end before we can get outside again in the spring. Many Thanks.

@user-cu4kb4py7i 6 ай бұрын

Enjoyed your videos good to see some humour.

@AnastasTarpanov 6 ай бұрын

Oh this is my dream trip and destination!

@lindablack7438 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful

@keitherskine8572 Ай бұрын

Good video. Enjoyed it. Noticed you've fitted Aeroe rack gear. Just fitted it to my dual suspension bike. Very happy with it so far.

@cmortimernz 29 күн бұрын

Thanks. I was impressed by my friends Aeroe rack too. If you check out my Twin Coast video you will see that I've put the same rack on my wifes full suspension bike. I wasn't as keen on the Aeroe 12l dry bag. The material seems to think. I went with a 15L Ocean Pack bag from Aliexpress.

@heterosexualfriendly864 6 ай бұрын

New Zealand

@cmortimernz 6 ай бұрын

yep

@PerryHughes 6 ай бұрын

Hey Carl great video, I'm pretty sure I went to high school with you on the shore. I'm planning on doing the TA in the next few years and you've got some great details here, cheers Perry 👍

@cmortimernz 6 ай бұрын

Your memory is probably better than mine. Long Bay College? Good on you planning for the ride.

@PerryHughes 6 ай бұрын

@@cmortimernz yep LBC late 80's very very long time ago ha

@Edenriboy.travel 13 күн бұрын

Amazing guys I'm planning to ride this route as well where I can find your route?

@cmortimernz 12 күн бұрын

thanks, we just rode the standard TA routes. you can get the route from the books and the GPX that is all available at www.touraotearoa.nz/ enjoy the ride!

@devonport68 7 ай бұрын

Liked the video, I’m doing the TA this year and it’s nice to see what the trails look like. Would you do the Hunua traverse again or go around the coast road? I’m originally a North Shore boy (born in Devonport so nice to see that) so have explored Hunua and the coast before, but not on a bike.

@cmortimernz 7 ай бұрын

Good on you. We came into the traverse via the weekday roads (logging trucks on the other road). There were two huge hills. The second one was too much for me with that load. I'd say that it did me no harm walking and the dams made up for it. I'm going to do it again this weekend without bags, and with my e-wife.

@jerichojones2881 6 ай бұрын

Hey mate. Cool video. What model Garmin are you using? Thanks.

@cmortimernz 6 ай бұрын

We were both using the Garmin Edge 520. They are great. May have been superceded by the 540

@user-cu4kb4py7i 6 ай бұрын

what model trek bike are you using?

@JoshuaJohnsonOutdoors 7 ай бұрын

Much appreciated, mate. I'm looking at doing the TA north island in a few weeks. A friend suggested it necessary to change your bike chain after 90 mile beach. Do you reckon that's necessary? Cheers.

@cmortimernz 7 ай бұрын

All good, hope you get a tail wind too. We started with new chains, just removed them and gave them a really good clean that night. Good as new again.

@JoshuaJohnsonOutdoors 6 ай бұрын

By the way@@cmortimernz , how did you find traffic in general on some of these hilly / narrow roads? In my experience, a lot of NZ roads aren't great for cycle touring (unless you enjoy getting intimate quarters with a truck and trailer). Thanks again!

@cmortimernz 6 ай бұрын

@JoshuaJohnsonOutdoors I found traffic to be really light and good. Surprising for the time of year (January). We were on state highways for a very small amount of time, but the shoulder was wide most of the time. Some times we rode for hrs without seeing a car

@jeorgiabluck2795 6 ай бұрын

how did you get to cape rienga?

@cmortimernz 6 ай бұрын

I was lucky to have my wife and Dauther drive up with us. They enjoyed the journey

@timsilvester489 6 ай бұрын

Can you please work on your Maori pronunciation?

@cmortimernz 6 ай бұрын

That was me working on it. It was a shocker without the retakes

@user-cu4kb4py7i 6 ай бұрын

what model trek bike are you using?

@cmortimernz 6 ай бұрын

I'm pleased you enjoyed the videos. The bike is a trek x-caliber 9. It's a cross-country bike and was perfect. Not one issue. Check out the Gear and Packing video if you want more info.