Ian Bowden’s a proud Kiwi who loves his homeland. He especially loves it when he gets to show it off to others.
Top trail on the way over Thompsons track
We needed to cross from the North Island to the South, so the meeting point was to be the Wellington Cook Strait ferry terminal. After a hastened journey from Tauranga on my 690 I arrived to find Pete and his 990 and Ted and his Husky Terra chatting to an unknown adventure rider. Peter – the unknown rider – was a native New Yorker keen to experience New Zealand by motorcycle. He’d hired a DR650 in Auckland, was on the same sailing to the South Island as us and didn’t have too many ideas of the best routes. We offered to show him the real Kiwi riding available, with a bonus of seeing fantastic scenery at a twist of the throttle.