Cold colours, hard angles: The awesome beauty of the Rainbow-Hanmer road ride
There are companies that offer overland tours of South America on Honda ‘Monkey’ bikes. Ed March has garnered growing fame for riding across continents on ‘step-throughs’. It’s less about skill than perseverance. (Check him out on YouTube, he’s unhinged but highly entertaining.) STU HUNT/Stuff Waves of tussock line the road through the Rainbow Station and down into Hanmer. While, in theory, you could do this ride on a scooter, and we did see a couple of hardy riders trying to do exactly that, for four middle-aged riders the bike choice was a little bit about power, but a lot a...
Source: stuff.co.nz