Possibly not helpful or related to anything ( however that is the farkin/rotorburn way )
i has been on a jaunt to New Zealand - it is lovely , friendly low population in the South Island and clean - as in not much litter - there where some weird cooker types but all good hahaha
so my point - it looking for a high quality brand name mtb , Santa Cruz ,pivot, jamis , ibis etc ( cargo bike to explore ? ) the deals in Nelson made me pause for thought and go. ‘Wow”
Fly in , buy bike , ride for days , go home with ‘ trail tested ‘ bike
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cycle infrastructure is pretty good - and we saw a lot of gravel burner , bike packing on everything from a old school steel framed Apollo to hard core downhill full downhill set ups.
Were many of em !
As I am out of touch, it was nice to wander thru bike shops , that had a ll the gear and range and were happy to ‘ no judge , how can I help ? ‘ with actual interest .
And I have never seen so many Santa Cruz bikes been used as commuters , shop runners - and e- bikes are definitely a thing !