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Dizzy's folding bike: Tauranga
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A re-introduction to cycling. Sunday, 9 August 2015. From our motel in Mount Maunganui, we biked to the foreshore where we had walked the previous evening, and rode on the boardwalk towards the Mount. The sun glistening on the water sharply outlines Motuotau Island (photo by John). Heading toward “The Mount” on the boardwalk (photo by John). Which gave us some idea of where we should be heading. Tauranga Harbour view from Pilot Quay (photo by John). Take a look – it’s fascinating. The pleasure boat ̶...
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Dizzy's folding bike: January 2015
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A re-introduction to cycling. Monday, 26 January 2015. Four early January rides. Well now, here we are in a new year, January is almost done and I have a bit of catching up to do. The holiday travelling is finished, bags unpacked, and travel stuff tidied away. We’ve been around a bit – Auckland for a family Christmas, Dunedin for a Scottish Country dancing summer school (just Désirée), and Christchurch for a guided cycle tour of the Mackenzie Country. Thursday 8 January 2015 – Waikanae to Peka Peka.
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Dizzy's folding bike: Hauraki Rail Trail – The Karangahake Gorge
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A re-introduction to cycling. Tuesday, 4 August 2015. Hauraki Rail Trail – The Karangahake Gorge. Before we left Waihi on Monday 20 July, we went to have a look at the Martha open cast mine. This is a huge, impressive pit from which gold- and silver-containing ore is mined. It is 700 m wide and 260 m deep. In 1952 the mine was closed, as the price of gold had dropped. But in the 1980s the price picked up again, and since 1987, the Martha Mine has operated as an open pit. Now that I am writing this up, an...
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Dizzy's folding bike: August 2015
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A re-introduction to cycling. Sunday, 9 August 2015. From our motel in Mount Maunganui, we biked to the foreshore where we had walked the previous evening, and rode on the boardwalk towards the Mount. The sun glistening on the water sharply outlines Motuotau Island (photo by John). Heading toward “The Mount” on the boardwalk (photo by John). Which gave us some idea of where we should be heading. Tauranga Harbour view from Pilot Quay (photo by John). Take a look – it’s fascinating. The pleasure boat ̶...
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Dizzy's folding bike: May 2014
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A re-introduction to cycling. Thursday, 22 May 2014. Arrow River Bridges Ride, and Glenorchy. After we had cycled the Otago Central Rail Trail we spent four days in Arrowtown. In the first two days we rode around Arrowtown, and rode the Lake Wakatipu Track. I described these in the previous post. You can find them here. On the third day we did the Arrow River Bridges Ride, and on our final day we drove to Glenorchy, at the top of Lake Wakatipu, and had a short ride around there. The Southern Discoveries ...
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