You Have Cycled in Australia. Cycling in New Zealand Feels Different. A practical guide for Australian women thinking about their first multi-day ride in New Zealand. A lot of the women who ride with us come from Australia. Many have already done a rail trail or two at home - the Mawson, the Murray to Mountains, the Riesling - and they arrive in New Zealand with a reasonable sense of what multi-day cycling feels like. That experience is genuinely useful. But New Zealand ridin