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Yeti Bikes Spring Demo Tour
The Spring demo programme is about to commence and its time to swing a leg over a YETI for some fun and games!
We at Bike Otago will be hosting this event on Sunday 28th October. Kicking off the fun from 10AM until 3PM at the top of Signal Hill. Keep an eye out on our Face Book page for updates, click HERE for more information.
If you live out of Dunedin then fear not, check out the dates the tour will be hitting various locations around the country!
- 29th September - Rotorua
- 30th September- Napier
- 6th October- Palmerston North
- 7th October- Wellington
- 14th October- Nelson
- 17th October- Christchurch
- 28th October- Dunedin
We strongly recommend filling in the form if you are interested in riding a bike, as often they get booked out. Follow this link: https://form.jotform.co/81777442084867 Often there will be availability on the day if you haven't pre-booked, although we cannot guarantee this.
All you need to bring along is your shoes, helmet and pedals, plus a smile. We do have a few sets of clipless pedals and flats if you forget however!
This event is open to all over 18 years of age unless testing with a guardian for potential bike sale(s).
If you would like more information about this event or the demo fleet available then please give us a call on 03 477 7396 or email Nat ( nat@bikeotago.co.nz ).
Bike Otago Spring Sale
Spring Sale
Spring is well and truly upon us and to celebrate we are having a spring sale in store and online.
The sale will run for two weeks and feature a number of cycle accessories as well as some excellent pricing on the current 2018 range of Giant & Liv Bikes. The main deals we have are as follows:
- 30% Off IXS & G-FORM Knee & Elbow Pads
- 30-50% Off Giro, Urge, 100% Full Face Helmets
- 30% Off Shimano Shoes
- 30% Off Yeti, Tineli & Endura Clothing
- 30% Off Smith, Giro & 100% Goggles
- 30-50% Off maxxis & WTB Tyres\
Visit our Spring Sale section online to view all of our deals!
To view our 2018 Clearance Bikes please click here.
South Island Secondary School Champs
For the second year in a row Dunedin is lucky enough to be hosting the secondary schools champs at Signal hill with XC, Enduro and DH events spanning from 12th-14th October 2018.
For all the information you need please click here on the Cycling New Zealand Page.
If your child has entered and needs gear we have some excellent deals on the compulsory gear required for the events (particularly the DH event), such as full face helmets, full finger gloves, neck braces, elbow & knee pads. Click HERE to view.
"Ladies Who Love To Ride" Weekly Women's Rides
Welcome Back!
Our "Ladies Who Love To Ride" group is starting back up for the 2018/2019 season! Yahoooo!
Now that daylight savings is fast approaching (30th September), we have enough daylight in the early evenings to be able to get back out on our bikes and enjoy some evening rides!
Our aim is to encourage more women into the sport of mountain biking. These weekly rides have been a huge success over the past few seasons, with many new women coming and experiencing the sport, making new friends to ride with and gaining the confidence to explore the great trails we have here in Dunedin!
This ride is for all women who love to ride their bike, aimed at all ages and is very much beginner focused. So if you want to start mountain biking, get back into it after a hiatus, improve confidence, gain basic bike skills and meet some amazing ladies then this is the ride for you! We also see our regular ladies improve throughout the season in confidence, fitness and bike handling skills!
We meet every Tuesday for a 6.15pm start. We change the location of our rides up throughout the season, check out our specific "Ladies Who Love To Ride" Facebook Group for all the information you need! The ride details will be posted on this page on Monday afternoons.
This season we have a brilliant group of voluntary ride guides! We are not coaches but our role is to support you up and down the tracks, as well as pointing out some basic bike handling skills along the way. We all love a giggle and light-hearted banter is mandatory! This year we have a few more ride guides in the mix; Catherine Shayler, Nat Munns, Rowena Geisreiter, Sam Hope, Shannon Hope, Devonia Kruimer and Roshni Mistry. We have an increased number of guides on board this year to assist and manage our ever growing numbers. It is really special to have the help of these fabulous and experienced women from the Dunedin mountain biking community!
Meet Our Ride Guides
Nat Munns
Nat works with us at Bike Otago and LOVES everything bike! She is super passionate about encouraging women into mountain biking and thrives on seeing the progression of our ladies through the season! Nat has been biking most of her life and loves nothing more than sharing her knowledge and passion with other women.
Roshni Mistry
Roshni is very much the head of the Bike Otago family and one of the main instigators of the Ladies Who Love To Ride Group! Roshni enjoy's family bike rides and bringing people together- which makes her a perfect ride guide!
Rowena Geisreiter
Ro has been guiding with us for one season and we are stoked to have her back for this season too! Ro is a coach part time at Bike School so has a wealth of knoweldge and is fantastic with encouraging ladies to push their boundaries.
Sam Hope
We are lucky enough to have Sam working with us at Bike Otago, she is a wee super star! Sam is a Dunners girl and has been biking for most of her life! She has a great skill set on the bike and loves to share her knowledge and passion for biking with others!
Shannon Hope
Shannon and Sam are sisters and most people think they are twins- you'll be hard-pressed to tell them apart! Like Sam, Shannon has been in to biking most of her life too. Just like her sister, Shannon is always smiling, encouraging and will make you have a great time on your bike!
Catherine Shayler
Catherine has been with the ladies who love to ride group for several seasons and absolutely loves riding her bike. She is a brilliant guide, relate-able, patient and super friendly it's hard not to love Catherine!
Devonia Kruimer
Devonia's love for mountain biking really started a couple of years ago when she started coming to our ladies who love to ride group! She's grown to love the sport of MTB and we're lucky to have her on board this season to give us a helping hand on our rides!
Our ride guides are all voluntary and do it for their sheer passion of Mountain Biking and social enjoyment! Our rides are free but we do ask for a gold coin donation if you wish, which goes towards all the efforts that our guides put in!
The bottom line is that we all want to support and encourage women into the sport, and if we can open people's mind's to the world of mountain biking then we have achieved our goal!
We ride rain or shine (although sometimes too much rain leads us astray to the pub)! Over the winter months we hold a number of Womens only 'special events' such as mechanical and maintenance workshops, yoga and special rides.
Any questions please give us a call at the store 03 477 7396 or flick Nat an email at nat@bikeotago.co.nz
We look forward to seeing you all at the first ride back on the 9th October, Signal Hill at 6.15pm!
Nat, Roshni, Ro, Catherine, Sam, Shannon, Devonia.
2018 South Island Secondary School Champs
We are really excited to be involved in this amazing event again, organised by Mountain Bike Otago. We will be providing the prizes again this year with support from a few of our wonderful partners, Maxxis, BBB, 100% and Giant.
Yoga Session at Bike Otago
We are super excited to be hosting a yoga class at Bike Otago with our awesome friend and yoga teacher Jo McDonald on Monday August 27th at 6pm. Read on to find out more about Jo, the style of yoga she teaches and come along to her class at the shop. Beginners are totally welcome! Please bring your own mat. We are asking participants to contribute $5 each to a Mountain Bike Otago fund towards developing the Signal Hill trail network.
What does yoga mean to you?
Yoga is about the connection between the mind, the body and the breath. We live in a busy, fast-paced world and a yoga practice can be a little sanctuary of self care.
What style of yoga do you teach? I teach vinyasa flow, hatha and yin.
What sorts of people come to your classes? A big variety of people! Public yoga classes are generally all levels classes, so you often get total beginners and very experienced yogis in the same class together. There’s always something you can get from the practice no matter your experience level. I always encourage people to modify the poses to suit their needs.
How do you think yoga benefits cyclists?
A consistent yoga practice can help relieve low back pain (a common complaint amongst mountain bikers!); it is also great for improving flexibility, balance and core strength. There are also mental benefits to the practice. Yoga is a great way to calm the nervous system, improve focus and reduce stress. I think yoga is beneficial to any athlete, regardless of their discipline, to make their sport sustainable long term.
What is your favourite yoga pose? It’s always changing, but I have been practicing a lot of yin yoga lately and my favourite pose right now is shoelace pose and all its variations. Shoelace pose is a hip opener, a stretch for the groin and inner thighs, and the forward folding variation decompresses the lower spine. It can be intense! But there are lots of variations to make it accessible to everyone. I like to add a side stretch and stay for 3 minutes in the side stretch and then spend 3 minutes in a forward fold, before switching to bring the other leg on top.
Yoga Bio:
Joanna came to yoga to get out of her head and into her body and continues to be amazed by the transformative possibilities of the practice. In her classes, Joanna aims to create space for students to have their own yoga practice, while offering a class that is dynamic and creative, as well as grounding and safe.
After graduating from university in 2011, Joanna spent the summer doing karma yoga at the Salt Spring Island Yoga Centre in Canada. After a summer of practicing yoga every day and learning about yogic philosophy, Joanna wanted to continue deepening her practice. Six months later she was on her way to India to complete her first teacher training in Astanga yoga. Joanna has since completed advanced vinyasa teacher training with Christine Price Clark and yin yoga training with Danielle Hoogenboom. Her main teachers have been ex-Anusara teachers and this is reflected in her heart-centred, alignment-based classes
MY Giant Adventure
This year I decided to make the trip to the Giant show a little more fun by building up a nice Giant XTC and add some bike packing bags so I could get around without a car. It was a pretty basic setup, but it did the job.
I managed to sneak out for a few laps of Nerang, which was the site for the recent Commonwealth Games. I had forgotten how tough it is to ride a hardtail with no dropper. The tracks here are rough !! After 2 hours on the trails my arms felt like they were going to fall off.
Then finally I made it to the Giant MY19 show... a big day listening and looking at the new bikes. It was actually very very impressive. Good to see Rae Morrison in all the promo materials too !!
There were many highlights to the show, but this bike here I think is the winner... Reign Advanced 1 will be $6299 ($1000 cheaper then last year), comes with brand new designed carbon rims which look like a big improvement and DVO suspension.. cool !
And finally, these new Trance E+ electric mountain bikes are looking absolutely awesome.
Plus of course, quite a few very special bikes that are still under embargo... I'll have to wait till next month to let you know about those !!!
New Santa Cruz Bronson
The new Santa Cruz Bronson was launched today. We think this will be a great bike for Dunedin trails! And we love the video :)
You little Ripper
Last night we had the pleasure screening RJ Ripper a movie By Joey Schusler and Yeti Cycles. We had an awesome turnout for the evening with all the local Dunedin favourites turning out to enjoy some Emersons pilsner (Shout out to Chris O’leary) Evansdale cheese and of course Roshni’s increasingly famous gingerbread! All proceeds from the night were donated to the star of the film Rajesh Magar a killer rider from humble beginnings in Nepal looking to break on to the world MTB stage. If you haven't seen the film yet be sure to get on down to bikeaholic in Queenstown this weekend or keep your eyes peeled for an online release date!
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