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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...