Behind the highly successful Northland vehicle rental specialists, Far North Rentals. Ken Mullarkey is also the director and founder of Mullarkey Tours.
Ken is an avid cyclist and cycle trail rider. However, it was during an extended visit overseas in 2016 that Ken saw how Europeans had embraced a new concept that really had not yet begun in NZ – electric bikes.
He started slowly in September of 2016 with 4 electric bikes based in Paihia to cater for the tourist trade and visiting cruise ship passengers.
At this stage Pou Herenga Tai, the Twin Coast Cycle Trail, was not fully completed and could only be ridden is separate sections. However, that all changed in late summer of 2017 when the trail was fully opened from Opua in the Bay of Islands to Mangungu in the Hokianga.