Simon Kennett, obviously inspired by his big adventure last year is going to hold his own event in NZ. ( http://greatdividekiwi.blogspot.com/ )=======================Howdy folksWe are planning to run a Great Divide style event in the South Island - a 1200 km, mixed terrain, self-supported cycle tour with a reasonably challenging time cut-off. Here's...
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Tour Te Waipounamu bikepacking race
The Tour Te Waipounamu bikepacking race was held in Aotearoa New Zealand, starting on February 14th 2021, it covered 1300 kilometres of rugged back country.
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- Sepp Hribar
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- stealthbags
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- steel is real
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- Steve Scott
- STI MTB
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- Susie Wood
- Sweet Acres Drive
- TA
- Takaka Hill
- tandem
- tbi
- Te Tawhio o Whanganui
- test aero helmet
- Thames
- The Competitor Radio
- The Flight of the Conchords
- The humans are dead
- through axel conversion
- tieke
- Time trial
- Time trial TT pacing liverton road WVCC
- time trialling
- tmi
- tour aotearoa
- tour de gravel
- Tour de Vineyards Nelson 2009
- tour divide
- Tour Te Waipounamu
- touraotearoa
- tourtewaipounamu
- Towai track
- track masters wotrld champs
- Track nationals New Zealand Invercargill Velodrome
- track wheels
- tracker
- tracks.org.nz
- traumatic brain injury
- triathlon
- trispoke
- Tune
- tune crank big foot kurbel
- Tune kong hub
- tune.de
- Tunnel Gulley
- Upper Hutt
- urbangrinduro
- URL Aerodynamic protocols testing with power velodrome
- USADA
- usenet
- vegan
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- Vintage bicycle
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- Wainuiomata trail park
- Wainuiomata Trail Project
- Wainuomata Rata Track
- Waipiata
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- Waspdale
- wayne mcdonald
- weight weenie lighting
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- Wellington Snow
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- wide-range
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- Wild Wellington MTB race
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- WIZARD SPEAK KNOWLEDGE BOMB PUT THE TIRE DOWN AND PICK UP A BEER
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