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I thought adventure e-heads might be interested in this vid by Cyril, a French guy I know. He's traversing Mauritania's wild Atlantic coast (Banc d'Arguin - that's wild not like the Irish one: several 100km of sand in one form or another) on an analogue fatty with a French woman Carole on a...

Know what you mean. I thought I was good but he is a packing ninja. Look up Teva Omnium - one shoe to rule them all.

Great pics from Llŷn Peninsula and Pennines, @Chargeride. Never been so wondered about Llŷn visit when I was on Cadair in the summer. Thought it might be a bit boring but seems I was wrong. Looks like Cornwall. I remember those maddening Yorkshire drystone wall slots riding the C2C (on my...

Have you considered chain wax as a means of extending drivechain life? Used to do it on motos where it just flung off and made a mess, but I started this year on my Tero. Simmer the chain in wax + PTFE powder, then on the road, lube from a liquid wax bottle between next clean & simmer. Too...

Rolling grids would be exceedingly effective - for anything with legs!

I think you mean cattle grid. They even introduced small bike-sized ones in the city of Cambridge to keep the cows out. There is some ancient law in Cambridge where, like India, cows can wander anywhere. Grids have solid bars, not rollers - they would make walking or even cycling across very...

Day Five was another 65km, one and a bit A2O stages to a homestead near Burnside, leaving a half day to finish. Things were flattening off and this time I was determined to stretch that battery out like warm pizza dough. Using only about 15km of assistance over the day, I came in this time with...

@stompandgo ... watched a season of "Alone" that was based on the South Island. The place looked absolutely brutal. Non stop humidity, rain, cold, and bugs. Looks like you found the nice part. That sounds like the narrow strip of land along the west side of the Southern Alps. We went there...

Don't know if it follows faults – rivers or valleys for sure. I don't know how RoW works in NZ but as you can expect it took them years and years to deal with the land owners. The result was absolutely worth it. The heath and hills near us are great rides but you're never more than 10 minutes...

Day Three (A2O Section 4, map below) was another short, 44km run to Omarama. Just as well as it was set to rain. The day started with a stony climb up the side of the valley and down again, with loads of other A2O-ers along for the ride on e-bikes, hardtails and even drop-bar tourers...

A2O Day 2 A replacement Big Tour was dropped at our Twizzle motel next morning, but in Large (not XL). Oh well, I’ve spent years riding too small frames; they still get you there. This area of South Island is a hub of hydro electric dams and canals and Day Two was a quiet, canal-side road...

No bears, no snakes (unlike Ozzie) or any predators, no gates even, apart from a couple as below. That was a big part of the appeal: you just ride all day.

E-Biking Alps to Ocean (NZ) A2O is a 300-km bike trail that runs across NZ’s South Island from near Mt Cook/Aoraki to the Pacific. February 2026 the Mrs organised us a brilliant self-guided ride with rented e-bikes, lodgings and even baggage transportation. In my prime I did a couple of big...

Greeting all, a Tero X 5.0 checking in. Thanks to Stefan for setting up this resource (took me months for my reg to get activated). I bought my low-mile 2023 Tero X5 in April after discovering ‘SUV e-bikes’ on Alps to Ocean in NZ and have done 1000 miles since then. My original plan had been to...