out of interest James, do the management do the secret shopper thing ?, it might be useful to them to understand why some have this perception of their stores, sounds from what you say the top guys are sound enough....

probably best if you dont answer this ;-)

on the brand perception thing..... I'd love to buy a Freddy Grubb or a Holdsworth or a Carlton, but would never buy an Evans, ridiculous really but my impression of the local Evans store ( and others that I've been in) means I'd never buy from them, I find the stores to be souless places, totally un...

I'm thinking that August would be a good time to go, and with cheap flights from Manchester on a daily basis it seems now (this year) is the time to go, I'm thinking that I could just turn up at the airport, build my bike and set off, do my standard 2 nights sleeping outside 1 night inside routine. ...

It looks like its been everything from roadbikes to pugsleys on the event, and hard core enduro bunnies to folk having their holidays along the route, I'm liking the relaxed attitude to it all, seems typical of the kiwis I met. Its such a shame that I didnt know about it earlier, would have loved to...

Two separate events, the kiwi brevet is in the north of south island, the southern brevet is further south, from what I can see both events essentially cover the south island, will try and get some insider info onto here

open invite ?, if so possibly a yes from me

yep, looks like its every two years, sorry

ah, I hadn't realised that Kev !

will double check

http://kiwibrevet.blogspot.co.nz http://trackleaders.com/kiwibrevet14 Met up with a guy a few weeks ago who told me about this event, having recently driven a van around the south island and seen some of the trails they will be riding I'm really keen to do this next year, plus theres a shorter versi...

have you finished work as well Jack ?

when I say finished I mean redundant

yep, I'm in and looking forward to getting lost mostly

thinking about riding to and from the event as well as now I have the time to do this stuff without worry about
getting back for work