Local knowledge.
Serious logistics.
Real adventure.
Kune started with a van, a decade of guiding experience, and the best trails in the country right outside the door.
Before Kune, Max spent ten years running multi-day Mountains to Sea adventures — guiding riders through Te Hangāruru, the Old Coach Road, the Mangapurua Valley and out to the Whanganui coast. When that chapter closed and the multiday operation moved on, Max took over the bike hire and day shuttles and built something of his own.
We're based in Ohakune — the town at the foot of Mt Ruapehu, sitting between Tongariro and Whanganui National Parks. It's one of the best-positioned adventure towns in Aotearoa, and we know every trail in it.
Every briefing is thorough. Every remote group goes out with PLB and live GPS tracking. Every bike is checked before you ride. We've been doing this long enough to know what can go wrong out there — and we plan for it.
If you want to ride these trails right, this is how you do it.
The operation
- bikes in the fleet
- 120+
- bikes in the fleet
- Bosch e-bikes
- 30+
- Bosch e-bikes
- Ford Transit shuttle vans
- 2
- Ford Transit shuttle vans
- of remote groups carry PLB + GPS
- 100%
- of remote groups carry PLB + GPS
Norco MTBs in black and orange, serviced in our own workshop between every hire. Two orange-branded Transits — one white, one dark navy — running the hills daily. PLBs and SPOT GPS trackers issued to every group heading somewhere remote.
What's coming
Day rides are just the start. Kune is building its own multi-day adventure tours — full Mountains to Sea journeys and multi-night itineraries through the Tongariro and Whanganui trail network, run properly, under the Kune name. If you've done the day ride and want more, that's exactly what we're building toward. Get in touch if you want to be first to know.
Kaitiakitanga
These trails pass through some of the most significant natural and cultural landscapes in Aotearoa — the rohe of Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Hāua, and Whanganui iwi, and through two UNESCO World Heritage National Parks.
We take the Tiaki Promise seriously. Every group is briefed on minimum-impact travel, Leave No Trace principles, and the cultural significance of the land they're riding through.
Adventure and kaitiakitanga — guardianship — aren't in conflict. They're the same thing, done right.
Come ride with us