Welcome to the Forza Bikes Classic Collection

The focus of the collection is New Zealand history. Bikes built by NZers, bikes ridden by NZers, clothing/memorabilia from NZers.

Pro team bikes, clothing and memorabilia also feature, as do bikes and components that have been significant to the world of cycling.

Our Collection

Explore our online gallery of classic bicycles, vintage jerseys, and memorabilia to immerse yourself in the rich history of cycling.

Workshop

We have a full workshop onsite- reach out to us for any enquiries about bicycle repairs and workshop services.

About us

Learn more about our passion for classic cycling.

Visit the gallery

Come visit our Classic Bike Collection Gallery and enjoy a close-up look at our vintage bicycle collection.

Contact us

Feel free to reach out to us anytime to learn more about our collection!

Latest news & blog posts

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The museum and workshop will be closed from Friday

The museum and workshop will be closed from Friday 6 December, and reopen on Tuesday 17th December, while Steve works for the legendary Ken Glah, and his team at the Ironman 70.3 world champs, in Taupo. You can still contact me via phone, or email for any queries, and bookings. #forza! #workshop #museum #triathlon #worldchamps #70.3 #taupo #lovetauponz #mechanic #forzacycleworks

Today we headed for Saint Emilion, in the Bourdeau

Today we headed for Saint Emilion, in the Bourdeaux region. Liam had found an ‘open air’ Tour de France display, a permanent structure in Pau, so we stopped there on the way. A display for every year, it is interactive-you can hold your camera over the front of the picture and it plays videos from the races. I see some new additions to our own museum QR code coming! Our accomodation in Saint Emilion is in the heart of the town, it’s a wonderful place we visited about 17 years ago. Not much has changed….. tomorrow is a day of wine tours, tasting and food #forza! #europe #france #tourdefrance #interactive #pau #saintemilion #wine #bourdeaux #sparklingwine #villagelife #history #relaxing #holiday #family #forzacycleworks

Tale of 2 countries and two cities today. Last day

Tale of 2 countries and two cities today. Last day in 🇪🇸 , with a stop at San Sebastián (photos 10 onwards). A beautiful little spot, although being the Spanish national day, there were people everywhere. And then to 🇫🇷 , and Lourdes. After heading out to dinner, we visited the Sanctuary of our lady of Lourdes. We arrived about 8.15pm, and there was virtually no one there. But as we viewed the grotto, the crowd was swelling. While I am not a religious person , my dad was catholic- so we went and lit a candle for him, (and also one for mum, who passed away 5 years ago). It was very emotional. We then followed the Marian procession, where pilgrims walk with lit torches at 9pm each night. There were, literally, thousands of people walking. Tomorrow, we are heading into the foot of the Pyrenees, to do a trek to Lake Gaube. #forza! #holiday #spain #france #sansebastian #lourdes #holiday #europe #family #fun #roadtrip #forzacycleworks

Daenerys Targaryen came home across the Narrow Sea

Daenerys Targaryen came home across the Narrow Sea to Dragonstone in season seven of Game of Thrones. The Thompsons, we just walked across the causeway! This place is actually called ‘San Juan de Gaztelugatxe’, and is a Basque church and one time monestary. The track down was pretty steep, of course, worse coming back….. we carried on to Bermeo after our visit, a small town of around 17000 inhabitants. Its history goes back to 1256, and was (and still is) a fishing town. We had a wonderful lunch , and trundled our way back to Bilbao, where we are staying in the heart of the old town. We leave Spain tomorrow, and head for France- Lourdes, Saint Emillion, Nantes, Mont st Michel, Blois and Paris. #forza! #europe #spain #gatzelugatxe #basquecountry #holiday #gameofthrones #dragonstone #bilbao #cascoviejo #onemoreday #forzacycleworks

Surprisingly, the day started off sunny, but as we

Surprisingly, the day started off sunny, but as we made our way to the bridge to walk to the old town, the skies became very dark. They did, however, make for great photos! Then it pelted down, but in 40 minutes the sun was out and we baked. Porto is a beautiful city, the architecture is varied with many style evident. One such style is the tiling of the outside of buildings…as witnessed in our photo of the church clad in white and blue tiles.The saddest part is a large number of buildings are beyond repair, and they are left to just collapse in on themselves. Today’s pics are a snapshot of the city ‘the old town’ and river area. We may of course, have tasted a few more ports……. Potentially our favourite city so far. #forza! #porto #oldtown #historic #rain #sunny #tiles #walking #portugal #greatfood #port #riverfront #holiday #europe #forzacycleworks

Haven’t posted for a while- we made it to Porto

Haven’t posted for a while- we made it to Porto today, first real day of rain and looks like it’s here to stay for a few days. Despite that, we ventured out for a walk and some port and chocolate tasting. The view from our window is down onto the port houses in Vila de Gaia. There are also pics from a bookshop in the L X factory in Lisbon, out and about in Seville, from the southern coast of Portugal, the Picasso museum in Malaga, lunch at El Tintero Malaga, port and chocolate tasting in Porto, and …..our son Liam and Sabrina- they got engaged 3 days ago at the Moorish castle, in Sintra. And a wall of sardines in the Sardine shop in Porto #forza! #portugal #spain #holiday #food #port #wine #chocolate #porto #lisbon #seville #engaged #sintra #forzacycleworks

Caminito Del Rey. Today’s adventure was traversi

Caminito Del Rey. Today’s adventure was traversing what was once the world’s most dangerous hike in El Chorro. Now much safer, after much work, but still quite a challenge for the two of us (Liam and myself) who are not good with heights. At its highest point, it’s 134m above the river. It felt like a lot more! While it was a great walk, I was glad to get off the trail at the end….. #forza! #caminitodelrey #trail #high #elchorro #greatview #spain #malaga #holiday #30degrees #forzacycleworks

And while we are away, the workshop dogs are on th

And while we are away, the workshop dogs are on their own holidays. Moose is staying at the ‘Skylit Labrador retreat’ in Hunua. He headed off with the owners and their dogs, Skye and Lillie , who both thought Moose made a good pillow on their weekend away to Te Mata. Millie was to be staying at the retreat too, but is still recovering from surgery, so is staying with our oldest son, Mitchell. It looks like she has settled right in- she goes to work with him, and clearly has the run of the house. #forza #labrador #skylit #happy #holiday #spoilt # notmissingus #foxred #weekendaway #workshopdogs #recovery #forzacycleworks

Tour de Valencia. Not quite the FiftyOne or Pinare

Tour de Valencia. Not quite the FiftyOne or Pinarello, but they did get us from a to b. We followed the old riverbed which is now a fantastic green space with cycling and walking paths, sports grounds, parks, and plenty of trees and seating areas. The old town was pretty cool, grand market where we had lunch. Another hot day(for us) 26 degrees. #forza! #valencia #oldtown #holiday #bikeriding #uncomfortable #fiftyone #pinarello #Mercat #walkingday #tiredlegs #uncomfortablebike #forzacycleworks

Tossa de Mar, north of Barcelona (not far from Gir

Early morning visit to the Santa Maria de Montserr

Early morning visit to the Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey, in the mountains of Montserrat. After checking out the Monastery, we took The funicular to the top of the mountain, and walked up kilometre or so to check out the view. We were on Opposite sides of Barcelona today as we first went south to Montserrat, then North to the beach town of Tossa de Mar, near Girona. #forza! #montserrat #monastery #barcelona #mountains #funicular #greatview #spain #forzacycleworks

Sagrada Familia. What a stunning piece of Gaudi ar

Sagrada Familia. What a stunning piece of Gaudi architecture. it was actually started by another architect (cornerstone laid on 19 March 1892, and Gaudi took over, and redesigned the Sagrada in 1893. In 1914, he worked full time on the temple, until His death in 1926. It is an incredible piece of work that is almost completed. It’s crazy to think it had been worked on for over 130 years.
#forza! #gaudi #sagradafamilia #barcelona #spain #temple #stunning #betterthanexpected #holy #catholic #church #forzacycleworks

La Boqueria markets have been operating in the cur

La Boqueria markets have been operating in the current location since 1797. Meat stalls back then, but now there is all sorts of meat, seafood, fruit and vegetables, chocolate, juices, alcohol, poultry, Spanish specialties, confectionary and a number of restaurants. Great place for dinner tonight, where we tried out many dishes. #forza! #food #laboqueria #market #barcelona #spain #huge #freshproduce #dinner #fulltummy #forzacycleworks

Family. First stop of the day was Park Guell. Gaud

Family. First stop of the day was Park Guell. Gaudi’s designs reminded us a bit of Hundterwasser, in that there are a lot of odd shapes and uneven surfaces. It was a fairly warm 27 degrees, which tested us on another 13/14km day of walking. #forza! #gaudi #barcelona #architecture #mosaics #1900 #parkguell #spain #forzacycleworks

First day on the ground in Barcelona. Not a great

First day on the ground in Barcelona. Not a great start yesterday, in a 2 hour queue to get through passport control, then luggage was difficult to find as flight had been removed from the carousels, and to cap it off, rental company guy was pissed we were 2.5 hours late, so then came 45 minutes after he said he would to pick us up. All ended ok though and we used the first day for a wander around the Americas cup village and some of the inner areas of the centre of Barcelona. Great metro and buses to easily traverse the city, although after 10 or 12km of walking , the legs are a bit tired. Fortunately Our son Liam’s partner speaks Spanish, so she has been invaluable already!!

So it begins. Back to Europe . 1st leg, 15 hours t

So it begins. Back to Europe . 1st leg, 15 hours to Dubai. #Forza! #spain #portugal #france #family #holiday #herewego #1ststop #barcelona #forzacycleworks

Just a heads up that the workshop and museum is go

Just a heads up that the workshop and museum is going to be closed from September 12 until October 29, while we partake in some much needed R and R. I can still be contacted via email and phone (text best, as I can’t guarantee I will pick up), for any queries/emergencies.
Look out Spain/Portugal/France, the Thompsons are coming!
#forza! #spain #portugal #france #holiday #family #letsgo #forzaontour #rest #recreation #recovery #Peugeot #forzacycleworks

‘Kiwi corner’ is a walk through a little bit o

‘Kiwi corner’ is a walk through a little bit of New Zealand history. Skinsuits from 1981 through to 2021. Oceania games, commonwealth games, Olympic Games, world championships, world cups, plus New Zealand road champion jerseys, Dulux cycle race and world champs. We will continue to add to our kiwi history, and look forward to telling the stories behind these pieces. #forza! #history #worldchamp #olympicgames #commonwealthgames #oceaniagames #worldcyp #duluxcyclerace #newzealandchamp #skinsuit #aero #storyteller #museum #forzacycleworks

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Cranks. Some of the interesting cranks on our bui

Cranks. Some of the interesting cranks on our builds/waiting for builds. Coda (awaiting build). Starfish custom (Lotus road tt). TA Specialites (Chris Boardman Hotta). Mavic special (Lotus 110 hour record replica). Sweetwings (awaiting build). Murray Tour de Force adjustable (awaiting build). Campagnolo Bora Ultra (awaiting build). #forza! #crankset #campagnolo #mavic #taspecialites #coda #sweetwings #the90s #aero #fragile #fast #timetrial #forzacycleworks

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