Bike wise

Stories by region

Latest news

Find out the latest news and stories about biking around New Zealand.

Do you have a personal biking story you’d like to share? Have you recently got back on your bike, started a new biking initiative, developed a new biking resource or have any exciting new biking ideas? If so, we would love to hear from you.

  • Gisborne BDO Big Bike Fix Up set to roll

    20 January 2012

    Gisborne will kick off Bike Wise Month early with the BDO Big Bike Fix Up next Friday!

  • New bikes for Cycle Action Whakatane

    18 January 2012

    Cycling has now become a whole lot more accessible to young children throughout the Eastern Bay of Plenty

     

  • Introducing the Big Bike Fix Up (BBFU)

    21 December 2011

    The BBFU is new safety initiative designed to encourage new and past bike-riders to get their unused bikes out of storage and along to a BBFU event.  Mechanics at the BBFU

  • First ever fossil-fuel free multi sport event

    1 November 2011

    Christchurch's Steven Muir was pondering if there was a way of training for, and doing multisport events, that doesn’t involve burning a large amount of fossil fuel. The answer

  • Back on Bikes Christchurch

    21 October 2011

    In wake of the Earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, participation in cycling has diminished as tracks and roads were damaged. To encourage participation, Back on Bikes (a series of exp