Tour Aotearoa is New Zealand’s longest bikepacking event. Stretching 3,000km from Cape Reinga to Bluff it follows a combination of cycle trails, tracks, paths and lanes connected by the most enjoyable country roads available.

When

Date: February 10, 2018

Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Details

Cost: Free

Event Website

Organizer: Jonathan Kennett

Where

Cape Reinga

Cape Reinga, New Zealand

This self-supported brevet is not a race. It is a ride following a set course, via 30 photo checkpoints, which you must complete between 10 and 30 days – no more and no less.

If you are participating in the Brevet, you must make a $100 donation to a charity of your choice. And of course you can add personal value to your journey and fund raise more money for the charity you are supporting. Besides this donation, all entrants are asked to offset their carbon emissions from travelling to the start and from the end of the Brevet.

Over 300 people entered the 2016 Brevet, including 65 from overseas. In total, over $250,000 was raised for 83 different causes ranging from social and environment to trail building. The next Tour Aotearoa Brevet starts in February 2018.

There are now 430 people on the 2018 Tour Aotearoa start list, so we have increased the number of riders to 600, spread over six start dates: 10, 12, 14, and 24, 26, 28 of February 2018.

The Tour Aotearoa is designed by Jonathan Kennett, a New Zealand cycling historian and guidebook writer. He launched Tour Aotearoa in February 2016 by organising a 3000 kilometre Brevet from Cape Reinga to Bluff along a route designed to highlight New Zealand (and avoid heavy traffic). It includes many New Zealand Cycle Trail Great Rides and Heartland Rides, as well as quiet back country roads. In 2018, he will organise the Tour Aotearoa Brevet again.

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