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Explore a collection of curated, inspired content from a community of cyclists, adventurers and everyday people.
Introducing Bike House: The story behind our rebrand
This marks a significant milestone in our journey and provided us an opportunity to reflect on everything that we stood for, everything we valued and everything that we aspire to become.
This marks a significant milestone in our journey and provided us an opportunity to reflect on everything that we stood for, everything we valued and everything that we aspire to become.
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Introducing Bike House: The story behind our rebrand
This marks a significant milestone in our journey and provided us an opportunity to reflect on everything that we st...
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Bike House helped me cycle 3,500 miles around Britain
From people who have been following my journey, you will know that I didn’t just do this ride for fun. I lost my love...
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The Fox's 500: A Journey Through Northland’s Scenic Beauty and Connection
The Fox's 500 started as a personal milestone event, a 500-kilometer challenge to celebrate my 40th birthday, but it ...
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Minimal Bikepacking Gear for a Mini Adventure
Summer is coming! We know we aren’t running Womens Ride Month this year but we thought we could still talk about som...
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Meet our Newest Ambassador - Jenny
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Introducing Ruth: A Cargo Bike Enthusiast Leading the Charge
Despite their advantages, cargo bikes are still a rare sight on the streets on Dunedin, so it was great to read a rec...
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Embracing the Ride: My Journey Through Ride to Work Month and the Love to Ride Challenge
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Meet Edith: A photographer, a mum and most importantly, a mountain biker.
We caught up with Edith, who’s recently purchased her new Pivot bike, to chat about all things mountain biking.
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Cycling the Paparoa Track
This last section was mine and Sam’s favourite. After leaving Pororari Hut it feels like a very long, fun, flowy dece...
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Skipper Rachel talks through the Harbour Cycle Loop
It's great to see so many people out and about enjoying the outdoors and doing something good for their bodies and s...
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How do I Pick the Right Saddle for me?
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Shimano Announces a Voluntary Inspection and Replacement Program
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Our E-Bike Review
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Nutrition for Cycling - What to Eat During a Ride
You’ll get faster, stronger, and be able push hard right up until that last interval, and then do it all over again t...
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Nutrition for Cycling - What to Eat Before a Ride
Fuelling for a ride is something you should be thinking about, not 5 minutes before you get on your bike, but in the ...
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7 Reasons Why You Should Replace Your Helmet
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Meet Graham Spencely, a local trail builder with his new Mondraker e-Bike
I'd really like to see a proper linked ride over the 3 Peaks (Flagstaff, Swampy, Mt Cargill). Whare Flat has so mu...
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The Essential Tools you Should Take on Every Bike Ride.
Carrying the essential tools and spares can help you deal with mechanical issues and keep your ride running smoothly.
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Nutrition for Cycling - Energy Availability
Sports nutrition is often at odds with public-health guidelines for the general population, but it’s important to ack...
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Get to know Stefan
Meet Stefan, one our ride consultants and newest member of the team! Stefan is from the Netherlands and is enjoying...
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Is riding an E-Bike cheating?
Ultimately, whether or not riding an E-bike is considered "cheating" is subjective and depends on the individual's pe...
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Get to Know Gavin
"When you don’t see me on my Vado I’m hiding out at the local ice rink playing ice hockey or in the kitchen baking ca...
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Nutrition for cycling
Over the next few months Michaela will be putting together a series of blog posts to build more awareness around nutr...
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Why I Commute
Gavin, our Service Technician, tells us why he chooses to commute everyday and why he picked the Specialized Vado.
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What is Monday Night Racing?
For all roadies or anyone who’d like to get faster on a bike, Monday Night Racing is back!
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Top tips and tricks for a bike packing trip
"On a bike-packing trip, I once used a pair of Chamois passed down to me from a family member, that they last used in...
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A Technicians Hobby
“I came across this circa 2010 cyclocross bike last summer that was going to the landfill if I didn't do something w...
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Faces of Cyclocross - Quenton Johnston
This week our ‘Face of CX’ is Quenton Johnston. We caught up with Quenton at our last race and asked him about all th...
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My First Roadie Season
The roadie season is rounding up for winter, so we’ve asked one of our newest roadies, Charlotte, to talk us through...
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Old Ghost Road
The Old Ghost Road track is the longest singletrack ride (85km) in New Zealand, winding through remote valleys, mount...
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Becky's E-bike Story
We recently caught up with Becky who is 32 and has recently fallen in love with our Sinch e-bike. Becky has always be...
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Behind the scenes of the Pivot video
We caught up with the crew who rode in our Pivot video; they talked about all things Pivot bikes and what they love a...
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Faces of Cyclocross - Mel
At our last Cyclocross race we caught up with Mel, who has only just tried Cyclocross this year and is loving it. Mel...
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Nominate a Local Trail Builder
Specialized NZ have launched a new campaign for local trail builders to be in with a chance to win a Levo. One perso...
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Zen and The Art of Bicycle Maintenance
Meet AJ. AJ is a Mum of two studying bike servicing at Otago Polytechnic, it’s the only certified bike servicing cour...
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Meet our Ambassador - Michaela Rogan
"I owe a lot to the cycling community here in Dunedin – it’s such a welcoming and supportive environment and it’s rea...
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Matt's Biking Adventure with the Whānau
Life is built on experiences & barriers should be broken down. This is our journal of all the epic people and adv...
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