Kennett Brothers Bike Books

Short Easy Bike 2nd Edition

Enjoy the simple pleasure of a leisurely bike ride to a cafe, playground or picnic spot. These safe and easy cycle paths enable you to enjoy the outdoors at your own pace.

• 62 leisurely rides
• Traffic-free and safe
• 1–3 hours riding time
• maps include bike hire, cafes and much more.

The 2018 second edition is fully updated and has 10 new rides added.

Bikepacking Aotearoa 3rd Edition

Bikepacking Aotearoa is a guide to forty cycling adventures around New Zealand. The trips range in length from two days to two weeks and explore the less travelled parts of this beautiful little country.

New equipment and a change of mindset have opened up a whole new world of possibilities. Bike packing bags, strap directly onto the bike and allow you to travel fast and light, on off-road capable bikes. Get away from busy main roads. Take to the gravel backroads, cycle trails, and back-country tracks to really get away from it all and find the hidden gems that Aotearoa has to offer.

For riders who are looking for adventures close to home and for bikepacking routes that can be completed in 2-3 days, Bikepacking Aotearoa offers a choice of 20 exciting routes that explore some of the most scenic parts of the country. These routes are perfect as weekend getaways or as preparation for a bikepacking event.

• Introductory chapters cover equipment choice, bike setup, training and preparation.
• Includes detailed route descriptions, maps, elevation charts, essential service listings
• Routes are graded by difficulty
• Includes a list of Bikepacking events on offer around Aotearoa NZ

Classic New Zealand Cycle Trails

This inspiring guidebook gives full-ride descriptions for 50 fabulous trips, including maps and elevation charts, plus contact details for accommodation options and other valuable tips for everyone from beginner riders to seasoned veterans.

For your next holiday, choose from 24 Great Rides or 24 Heartland Rides and get in touch with the real New Zealand.

Classic New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides

Where are the best mountain bike rides in New Zealand?

With more than a thousand to choose from, this book is our definitive answer. We have distilled three decades of mountain biking, track building, research and exploring into a guide to the best of the best. It’s a celebration of New Zealand’s forty finest adventures on two wheels.

Since this book was first published in 1991, mountain bike events, tracks and bikes have undergone a stunning transformation – from pushing heavy fully-rigid clunkers along overgrown stock routes to whipping around purpose-built trails on lightweight full-suspension machines. And over that time, this book has evolved, from a small black-and-white publication to the 416-pager you’re looking at.

This, the 10th edition of Classic New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides, has focused on our 40 favourite rides. They range from fantastically popular mountain bike parks like Whakarewarewa in Rotorua to the inspirational, multi-day, Old Ghost Road on the West Coast of the South Island.

For each ride, you will find:

• a detailed route description
• Geography 3D maps
• elevation charts
• essential tips and nearby services
• the intriguing back story to these fabulous rides

Volcanic Plateau Best Bike Rides

Volcanic Plateau Best Bike Rides is the best guidebook available for the central North Island.

With full-colour maps, stunning photographs and useful elevation charts, this handy, portable book will tell you everything you need to know about cycling in the Rotorua and Taupo regions, with all five New Zealand Cycle Trails in the area, as well as 17 fantastic mountain bike rides, and two classic road rides. You’ll be spoilt for choices when discovering this unique and picturesque part of New Zealand.

Classic New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides South Island

The South Island volume includes 179 rides with 90 new trails added since the last edition.

• Easy-to-read directions
• Distance, times and grades
• Colour maps and elevation charts
• Inspirational photos
• All are rated so you know which are the best rides for your maximum riding pleasure.

For 25 years, the Kennett Brothers have carved a name for themselves in the sport of mountain biking. They continue to promote their passion by designing and building tracks, organising events and writing and publishing books about mountain biking.

If it’s worth riding, it’s in this book. Now it’s your turn to discover the South Island’s best trails!

The Bikes We Built (hardback)

The Cycling Pioneers