Posts under ‘New Zealand’

Cycle Lane Petition – Lake Road, Takapuna – sign now, ASAP, hurry up even…..

Lake Road Petition We need to make a final push with the petition as another 500 signatures are needed by 8 Feb. Please get one or two, or even three, more people onto the online petition. Family members (kids ok), work colleagues, friends, whoever. Anyone from the Shore or Greater Auckland (Lake Rd is an [...]

K1 Coromandel 100km bike race

Worst cramps of my life last 50k’s: http://tpks.ws/8tpv av speed 25k total elevation gained 1k max speed 92k

By biking you’re volunteering to die

Check out this excellent post on the current bike debate over at good New Zealand’s guide to sustainable living. I should know better than to start reading the opinions proffered in ‘Your Views’. This comment in particular struck a chord with me: Cycling is the leading cause of voluntary death on the roads of New [...]

Cycle Safety

Our thoughts go out to the family of the 4 cyclists bowled by a lady who drove straight through a group of cyclists whilst on her mobile phone in St Heliers Auckland on Saturday morning. Cyclist critical after Tamaki Drive ‘carnage’ Its time for some real action to take place, enough talk. After discussing this [...]

Heli boarding video

here’s a little vid I made from Marks & my heli boarding adventure last week. http://bit.ly/2CSTNU

Aron & Shelley get hitched

Went to their awesome wedding last night at Pinot in Orakei, had a fantastic night, always great to catchup with the old school crew & the new(er) crew, all good.

New Photo’s

I’ve just added some new pix; Pat & Erins wedding in the awesome setting of the Redwood Forrest in Rotorua Then a family & family friends trip to Marahau, South Island for a long weekend We even got in a bit of mtn biking on Granite Mountain whilst down there with Regan and the great [...]

Ironman NZ 2009

Thanks to everyone for all your support for my big race Saturday week ago. Apologies for not replying earlier, but Oanita and I took a well deserved week off to chill out in Taupo & recover after the race with Rich, SJ & Issy. Lots of walking Harvey the dog, and even a mountain bike [...]

Vorb: Illness Forces Doe Out Of Bonita Ironman New Zealand

Vorb: Illness Forces Doe Out Of Bonita Ironman New Zealand – Bay of Plenty, Multisport, New Zealand, News, Outdoors, Regions, Tauranga Illness has forced title hopeful Kieran Doe out of Saturday’s 25th anniversary Bonita Ironman New Zealand in Taupo. Doe (Auckland), who was third last year, has been unable to shake a mystery stomach and [...]

Ironman NZ 2009 – Fundraising

Now I’ve left you all alone since my original post/request for fund raising back in August ’08. That is until NOW. Ironman 2009 Fundraising I’ve set up a web page at http://www.fundraiseonline.co.nz/BrendanGray/ Come support me as I participate in Ironman NZ 2009 in an effort to raise funds for Breath4CF. It would be awesome if [...]