There's something genuinely special about throwing a leg over a bike and pointing it toward the open road — but doing it with your mates? That's a whole other level. New Zealand's South Island is one of the great motorcycle destinations on the planet, and at Epic Ride, we've made it easier (and more affordable) than ever to bring your group here and ride it properly.
Whether you're a riding club planning an annual trip, a group of mates finally making it happen, or an international motorcycle tour operator looking for a trusted New Zealand ground operator — we've got a setup that fits.
Three Ways to Ride with Your Group
We keep it flexible, because no two groups are the same.
Rental only is perfect if your group likes to do things on your own terms. Grab the bikes — choose from our fleet of BMWs, KTMs, Hondas, and more, with mostly under three years old — and head off wherever you like. We'll sort you with panniers, a top box, and unlimited kilometres. The road is yours.
Self-guided touring is a step up. You still ride at your own pace, but we take care of the planning. Every bike comes loaded with a GPS unit pre-programmed with hand-picked scenic routes, so your custom motorcycle itinerary is ready to go from day one. Accommodation is sorted night by night (twin share from day one), and if your route crosses Cook Strait, the ferry is included too. You just show up and ride.
Fully guided tours are for groups who want the whole experience handed to them. A professional local lead rider joins your group, fuel is covered, breakfast is included every morning, and you'll share one special group dinner along the way. Airport pickups and drop-offs are sorted, and our Christchurch base — just five minutes from the airport — is your luggage storage hub throughout.
The 8-Day and 12-Day Tours — And Beyond
Our 8-day South Island Sojourn and 12-day South Island loop are our most popular group packages, and they're a great place to start — but they're not the end of the story.
The 8-day tour starts in Christchurch and takes riders through some of the South Island’s most memorable landscapes, from alpine roads and lakeside routes to dramatic coastlines and glacier country. The 12-day loop goes further, giving your group more time to experience Queenstown, the legendary road into Milford Sound, Invercargill — home of Burt Munro — Dunedin, the Rakaia Gorge and more.
Both tours are designed as starting points, not fixed itineraries. Want an extra day in Queenstown? Rather spend a night at Aoraki/Mount Cook? Prefer to stay South Island the whole time? We can work with that. Our team is happy to build a custom motorcycle itinerary around the group's experience level, riding style, and bucket list. Think of our 8 and 12-day tours as the bones; we help you build the rest around them.
Multilingual Guides — English, Mandarin, Cantonese and More
One of the things that makes a guided tour genuinely enjoyable is being able to communicate easily — swapping stories at the end of the day, understanding the briefing each morning, asking about that road you just rode. We get that.
Our guides are fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, making Epic Ride one of the very few New Zealand motorcycle tour operators catering directly to Chinese-speaking groups. Whether you're travelling from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, or Malaysia, you can ride with a guide who speaks your language. For other languages, just ask — we do our best to accommodate on request, so get in touch early and we'll let you know what's available for your dates.
For B2B partners building Asia-Pacific itineraries, this is a genuine point of difference worth highlighting to your clients.
For Tour Operators: Your New Zealand Ground Operator
When the roads dry up back home, New Zealand is just getting started. New Zealand's prime riding season runs November through March — exactly when Europe, North America, and much of Asia hit their off-season. If you're running motorcycle tours in the northern hemisphere and looking at quiet months on the calendar, this is your window.
Epic Ride works directly with international motorcycle tour companies as a trusted New Zealand ground operator, providing full end-to-end support so you can run a tour under your own brand without the headache of managing logistics from the other side of the world. Whether you're based in Europe, the US, the UK, or Asia, we handle everything on the ground: fleet supply, custom motorcycle itinerary building, multilingual lead riders (English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, with other languages on request), accommodation logistics, airport transfers from Christchurch, Auckland, or Queenstown, and GPS-loaded routes across the South Island's finest roads — West Coast, Haast Pass, Milford Sound, Arthur's Pass, and the Mackenzie Basin.
Your clients get a seamless New Zealand motorcycle tour. You keep the relationship. We keep the wheels turning.
Get in touch to discuss motorcycle group discount pricing, white-label options, and partnership terms for the upcoming southern hemisphere season.
Group Discounts — The More Riders, the Better
Our motorcycle group discount structure rewards you for bringing your crew:
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4 bikes: 5% off
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5 bikes: 6% off
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6 bikes: 7% off
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7 bikes: 8% off
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8 bikes: 9% off
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9–10 bikes: 10% off
B2B tour operators, reach out directly for trade pricing.
Let's Start Planning
We're based in Christchurch with pick-up and drop-off across Auckland and Queenstown. Whether you're a group of mates, a riding club looking for your next big trip, or a tour operator filling your off-season calendar with a New Zealand motorcycle tour — we're ready to make it happen.
Enquire now at epicride.co.nz and tell us about your group, your preferred dates, and how you like to ride.
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