Back in early September we set our sites on riding a variation of the amazing Kahurangi 500 bikepacking route with a friend to look at possibilities of offering transport packages and support packages for this route, allowing larger groups and individuals the ability to resupply and also swap bikes at specific locations. You can see […]
The business story
Kahurangi 500 -Bike packing – Gearing up for Gearing down
As you can probably guess… we love bikes, and we love bikes for a multitude of reasons, first and foremost are the many freedoms that a bike can give you. They’re small and very strong so you get a lot more freedom in terms of where you can take them both on road and off!! […]
What makes Scottish Express transport different for Adventurers?
The main thing as that we are adventurers too, so we we ooze with passion for what we do!!! We started the business just prior to the outbreak of the Pandemic and we saw an opportunity to create a service for adventurers by adventurers…. It was getting pretty hard to get to some of the […]
Sustainable Tourism
We’ve been continuing to ensure that we are making ethical decisions for the enviroment and our customers as part of our sustainable tourism model. We measure and offset our Carbon with EKOS New Zealand, and are happy to say that we have reduced our Carbon offset by 13% this year while increasing our sales by […]
Thanks to all you adventurers
Well, the years winding up, and it’s been a year packed with adventures for Scottish Express. Big thanks to all those who have supported the Express this year. We’ve had great times driving people to new adventures on the monthly specials and listening to their conversations in the Landcruiser party lounge. We’ve also been pretty […]
Back from the alps to ocean
Just had am amazing eight day trip away taking customers on the Alps to Ocean tour, unbelievable weather and scenery. We stayed in great accommodation and enjoyed BBQ’s by the lake and great comaraderie on the trail. This is kind of trip is the Scottish Express speciality… custom transport with accommodation and activities thrown in. […]
The Gorge Midwinter Enduro Free Transport
The Gorge Midwinter Enduro is on this Weekend!!! I’ve got free transport to anyone wanting to get out there and back on the day. Cut down on your fuel cost and your enviromental footprint and share some transport with some stoked human beings. I’ll also be kickin around during the day, as I’m kicking back […]
Monthly Specials – all under $100
Some nice shorter trips well paired with our diminishing daylight. Day tramp? Kayaking? Fishing? Offtrack Exploration? Shuttling the Gorge? Hike a bike the Nevis? Yep, we’ve got all the above covered and more over the next month and a bit. Delve further into the website for further info and bookings. Heaps of options her to […]
The Cobb Valley, Delicious for the eyes!!
Wow, what a weekend just been. We took the “Adventure Crafting” group up the Cobb Valley to stay at the Cobb Hostel , they enjoyed some amazing weather and mountain vistas. Almost 50% of the group had never visited the Cobb Valley!! What makes the Cobb so amazing… is you can drive straight to an […]
Volunteering with the Nelson MTB Community
Super happy to get some volunteering activities under way at Scotttish Express this month, we started off on friday by giving the hard working volunteers who had been tickling up “Loam Ranger” a shuttle up to the top of keyboard warrior. It’s been awesome to utilise the unique Scottish Express sponsorship fund to give back […]
Just a wee yarn about the Wairoa Gorge
Summer is on the way. And I just want to give everyone a gentle reminder about awesome things to do and why you should do them. The Gorge Bike park is located on a public recreational reserve and without the support of the Nelson mountainbike club and the greater NZ mountain bike community it simply […]
Couple of wee announcements
We’re offering up a great deal to get to Nelson Lakes next month for a Weekend away, and we also want to remind people that we are super committed to the sustainability of our business going forward which is why we go up and beyond the the carbon off set we have pursued with Ekos […]
Cable Bay Kayak shuttles are on!!!
This Sat the chance of a good afternoon sea breeze is looking great. So.. we’ll be picking up grinning paddlers from Tahuna Beach and Glenduan so they can enjoy the pristine waters of Tasman bay. All paddlers welcome. Big thanks to Chris at Kayak HQ for collaborating and modifying and providing his trailer so we […]
Uber Comfort
The recent trip to Nelson Lakes gave a good opportunity to try out the new seating upgrade in the back of the Landcruiser. Carrying on with the Tartan theme, we employed a great local seamstress to make some goretex covered memory foam seat cushioning. The great thing is with them being goretex they make an […]
Cable Bay Kayak Shuttle
Been quitely having a yarn to Chris West down at Kayak HQ for the last couple of months about getting a Kayak Shuttle Service going to help locals to utilise the prevailing winds in Nelson and to encouage them to explore our amazing coastlines. We’ve come up with a pretty good flexible format to get […]
Greening up the Land Cruiser
Got down to Christchurch to have a yarn with the good folks at Green Fuels NZ, and picked up my first batch of 100% BioDiesel to mix with my standard vehicle. Awesome!! I’ve figured out that I can drop my fossil fuel consumption by 13% over the year without any modifications whatsoever to my vehicle. […]
Learning a lot… Simpler is better
Just redesigned the website to make life simpler. Should be lots easier to navigate about. I’ve thrown a super cheap special up in September if anyone wants to get down Nelson Lakes for a day of riding or a day walk. Pie and Coffee at Wakefield included!! Also heading down to Christchurch next month to […]
Going Green(er)
Yep, I know I’ve been a bit quiet in the background. But actually there been a whole lot of great things going on in the background. I’ve comitted to twelve point sustainability plan, to ensure my business has good solid foundations for a sustainable tourism model to be built. The other thing i’ve been rattling […]
The Adventure continues
Just back from an amazing fact discovering journey down to the West Coast to find some unique locations to take adventurous people, and also to collaborate with some other great people to create some great adventure packages for the upcoming summer. I think people are getting the idea that this businesss is just as much […]
Nice one NMTBC Volunteers!!
Just attended the Aorere Enduro logistics briefing last night . Heaps of enthusiastic volunteers making the event happen. So good to see people putting heart and soul into events. Anyhoo….. I’m putting up a $200 voucher for Scottish Express Transport as a spot prize for volunteers for the event. Got to go, got a landcruiser […]
