Meet Our Team
We are pretty stoked to have such an amazing bunch of people working here at Paihia Mountain Bikes, sharing the stoke of riding and getting "more bums on bikes!"
Have a little read below to learn more about our Crew
Have a little read below to learn more about our Crew
Jonny and Georgie both love the outdoors and are stoked to have moved back up to Jonny’s old stomping grounds of the beautiful Bay of Islands!
After spending a few years living in cold Dunedin, at the other end of New Zealand, studying at the University of Otago, and spending a year or so travelling around and exploring what some of Asia and the world has to offer, they have realized that one of the most spectacular places was right on their doorstep! We are fortunate enough to live in this untouched part of the world and want to be able to share it with the rest of you…and get some more people out enjoying the outdoors on bikes!
Jonny has spent a fair bit of time on the saddle, after helping set up and market the New Zealand Mountain Bike Tours company (Haka Tours) and guiding MTB and Adventure Tours all around New Zealand, it’s time to stay in one place for a while. Jonny has ridden heaps of the awesome trails around NZ- and he reckons the Waitangi MTB Park is going to be one of the best!! He loves any sort of riding, whether it is in a MTB Park, Rail Trail or even a big back-country mission. Jonny will be able to help you out with any bike related issues in the workshop and will happily chat ‘bike’ for hours.
Current Rides: A specced up 2022 Husqvarna Mountain Cross eMTB, a Focus Raven XC Hardtail Weapon and a Scott Ransom 900 Tuned (the Tiger). The eMTB takes the cake for the most ridden these days
Favourite Tool: Parktool AWS-10. The king of multitools. Always handy in the pocket for any occasions
Favourite track: Kunekune- Grade 3, super fun and flowy! Yeehoo!
Georgie is the brains on the computer and the design whizz. Georgie is all over it when it comes to organising conferences, group bookings, brochure drops, marketing campaigns and spreading the word about Paihia Mountain Bikes and the Waitangi Mountain Bike Park. Georgie is an accomplished hockey player, an ex-adventure racer, and a keen runner. She loves riding the Rail Trails around NZ and is enjoying tearing it up in the Waitangi MTB Park too.
Current Rides: Husqvarna Hard Cross 7 eMTB with a daisy flower wrap, cause everyone likes flowers!
Favourite Track: Kaokao Chaos- Grade 3- long, flowy and tabletops.
Logan is a jack of all trades, and master of.…all. As one of our qualified bike mechanics, Logan has you covered whether it’s a simple puncture or a full stripdown, service and rebuild. Capable servicing most types of suspension, he’ll make sure all the bouncy bits are working well too. Electric Bikes are no problem either with Shimano and Bosch eBike Certifications. A born and bred Northlander and a keen mountain biker, he has come originally from the Automotive Industry. With years spend under the hood with a spanner and grease on his face, even removing rounded spoke nipples is still more enjoyable than doing a cambelt he realised. Moving on from the Rally Car days to shredding the tracks on his mountain bikes, he is often riding in the Waitangi MTB Park most weekends with his kids and wife. If not going for a casual jaunt, he'll be getting sendy on his eMTB with a massive grin on the dial.
Favourite tool: Chain Checker (Specifically the Parktool CC-2)- simple but essential.
Current Rides: A pimped out 2021 Giant Fathom Hardcore Hardtail and a trusty Merida e160.
Favourite Track: Tuatara (mainly the bottom section).