maddad
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Looking to do a trip to New Zealand next April for the sole purpose of biking around the island. Anyone from New Zealand on this forum with advice or anyone done a similar trip and have recommendations.
New Zealand Bike Trip any advice
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maddad
There is a company that has tours of both Islands you can do it by your self or with the group you just have to be at the ferry to go to the south island at a set time its sounds like alot of fun as my wief anmd I are going to Inda this fall will probably do it next year. Ayres Adventours
www.ayresadventures.com or toll free 877 275-8238
There is a company that has tours of both Islands you can do it by your self or with the group you just have to be at the ferry to go to the south island at a set time its sounds like alot of fun as my wief anmd I are going to Inda this fall will probably do it next year. Ayres Adventours
www.ayresadventures.com or toll free 877 275-8238
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Check with beemerdons, He has ridden there.
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drjfjr
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I was there many years ago. They drive on the left side. It takes a while to get used to driving on the wrong side of the road. In a cage you concentrate on the driver being by the center line. I imagine it will be tougher on the bike. Probably best if you tour with locals a couple of days to get used to the wrong side of the road.
TestPilot
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maddad, on the Aussie FJR forum there is a guy by the name of Bernie, who toured there a few years ago. Shipped his bike over from Aussie. If you join up there and ask him he will have lots of useful suggestions https://forum.fjr13.org/index.php He is on his 4th FJR (from memory) - all traded in on new ones.
beemerdons
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https://gate1travel.com https://www.tourism.net.nz/listings/nztg/tr...al-motorcycles/ We went with Bularangi Motorbikes to rent our Harley, but there are a number of Rental Agencies on both Islands.
Hi maddad, Three years ago, when my son Seth was 10, we went on a package motor coach tour of New Zealand with Gate1 Travel. We had a ball and saw a lot of both the North and South Islands.
We had a free Sunday in Queenstown, a very beautiful and historic tourist city in the Otago region. Previous day we'd stopped for lunch in Oamaru, the home of the New Zealand National penguin preserve. My son Seth is nuts about penguins, one of the reasons we traveled to New Zealand; we went on numerous penguin sighting expeditions while we were on this vacation. Lots of great wildlife.
No big deal riding on the left, ride with Fairlaner and you'll get used to it! So, on Sunday morning Seth and I picked up a H-D Sportster 1200 rental and rode back to Oamaru via Clyde and Ranfurly.
Clyde is a preserved gold rush mining town and well worth a visit. Had a marvelous lunch in Ranfurly. The route takes 6.5 hours to ride, but we stretched it out with many rest stops because the penguins do not come ashore from their daily fishing trip in the sea until sunset. We had a delicious seafood dinner in Oamaru and then were hunkered down in the screened observation blind when the first Pygmy Penguin came ashore through the breakers. Stayed until the last penguin came onto the beach and waddled to their nests built into the sand dunes 100 meters away from the shore.
It was a long 6.5 hour ride back in the dark, but was it ever worth it. There was a full moon guiding us as we meandered our way back over the mountains returning to Queenstown and Otago Valley.
We stopped at the summit at Blackstone Hill and got off of the Sportster. Standing in the moonlight, on left side of the road, Seth gave his Old Dad a big hug and said this was the best vacation ever.
While I've heard wonderful things about both Ayres and Edelweiss package tours of New Zealand, I plan to do a NZ M/C tour with Seth when he's 15, but do it independently-motorcycling on our own!
Hi maddad, Three years ago, when my son Seth was 10, we went on a package motor coach tour of New Zealand with Gate1 Travel. We had a ball and saw a lot of both the North and South Islands.
We had a free Sunday in Queenstown, a very beautiful and historic tourist city in the Otago region. Previous day we'd stopped for lunch in Oamaru, the home of the New Zealand National penguin preserve. My son Seth is nuts about penguins, one of the reasons we traveled to New Zealand; we went on numerous penguin sighting expeditions while we were on this vacation. Lots of great wildlife.
No big deal riding on the left, ride with Fairlaner and you'll get used to it! So, on Sunday morning Seth and I picked up a H-D Sportster 1200 rental and rode back to Oamaru via Clyde and Ranfurly.
Clyde is a preserved gold rush mining town and well worth a visit. Had a marvelous lunch in Ranfurly. The route takes 6.5 hours to ride, but we stretched it out with many rest stops because the penguins do not come ashore from their daily fishing trip in the sea until sunset. We had a delicious seafood dinner in Oamaru and then were hunkered down in the screened observation blind when the first Pygmy Penguin came ashore through the breakers. Stayed until the last penguin came onto the beach and waddled to their nests built into the sand dunes 100 meters away from the shore.
It was a long 6.5 hour ride back in the dark, but was it ever worth it. There was a full moon guiding us as we meandered our way back over the mountains returning to Queenstown and Otago Valley.
We stopped at the summit at Blackstone Hill and got off of the Sportster. Standing in the moonlight, on left side of the road, Seth gave his Old Dad a big hug and said this was the best vacation ever.
While I've heard wonderful things about both Ayres and Edelweiss package tours of New Zealand, I plan to do a NZ M/C tour with Seth when he's 15, but do it independently-motorcycling on our own!
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Get in touch with John and Ian Fitzwater of Gotour NZ, great guys. They offer tours or rent bikes and are located in Nelson on the South island. They offer small tour groups and each morning lay out all the possibilities for the day, giving you lots of choices for your ride. Also they offer lots of side excursions such as jet boat rides, swimming with wild dolphins in the open ocean, helicopter rides to a glacier and more.
You're gonna love NZ, have fun.
You're gonna love NZ, have fun.
HaulinAshe
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Grumpy and SnowWhite just finished a NZ tour in December. They rented a C14 and did a 1st-Class tour of both north and south. You should PM Grumpy.
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