Green Jersey hires bikes and runs cycle tours from 16 Kitchener Street in Martinborough, the wine village in South Wairarapa. The fleet covers the ordinary and the unusual: bikes for riding the vines, a trike, electric assist bikes, a circular Cobi bike that seats seven, bikes with four or six sets of pedals and room for two children, a gravel bike, cargo bikes, and an electric assist mountain bike. Hire runs from 9.30 am until closing on the same day, and pick-up is possible any time after opening. Multi-day hire is by arrangement. Bikes can also go on a car rack to the Remutaka Cycle Trail, which needs a tow ball. Local loop rides and point-to-point shuttles are on offer.
The tours include a six-day, five-night tour of the southern coast of the North Island, which starts with a ride around Martinborough, a wine tasting and a platter lunch at a local winery. There is also a cycling adventure on the South Wairarapa coast to Cape Palliser, with a visit to the Putangirua Pinnacles and the North Island's largest fur seal colony, and a three-day version that reaches Ngawi. Riders are asked to keep to the rules: no BYO alcohol on bikes, no riding down the hill at Luna Estate, and large bikes stay within Martinborough and the Wine Strip area. Indi Bikes Martinborough, about 200 metres away, is the only other bike shop within a kilometre. Our pick in Martinborough for a ride among the vines.