A TASTE OF TAIRAWHITI ON BIKES
“Our mission is for visitors to cycle up an appetite. Not just for Gisborne’s fine food and wine, but also to cycle more often,” enthuses Katrina Duncan, co-owner of Cycle Gisborne. On a sublime blue-sky-and-sea Tairāwhiti day she shared exactly that: cycle ride, cider-taste, cycle, beer pizza – then cycle a bit more.
Katrina and her business partner, Anelia Evans, launched Cycle Gisborne () in 2010. They now have a fleet of bikes and run guided and freedom cycle tours all year, as well as delivering cycle skills training and consultancy. Our wheeled early-March meander was a blend of their ‘Captain Cook City Cultural Tour’ and ‘Great Taste City Tour’, taking us on a journey through Gisborne town and along the Tūranganui River bank to the coast, mixed in with refreshing visits to Harvest
