About us



Sally-and-Braden

Owners of Mountain Bike Tours NSW
Braden Currie & Sally Schott

“After spending our whole lives traveling the world and spending every spare minute in the outdoors, we decided to create a company that offers people an outdoor experience with a sense of depth and realness. We prefer to describe our tours as “journeys”. Although all of our itineraries are planned meticulously, we pride ourselves in the fact that each and every one comes with its own flavour and own unique set of surprises. All of tours are a representative of our passion for good food, beautiful places, fresh air and awesome riding. Our experiences are fresh, unique and as ungeneric as we can possibly make them. We cater for the young and old, solo travellers and families of seven, hard core adventurists and cruisy laid-back holidaymakers. ?It’s your journey, it’s your experience and our job is simply to provide you with the opportunity to live it!”
Sally Schott and Braden Currie



The Mountain Bike Tours team

Introducing the avid and passionate members of the Mountain Bike Tours team. We offer you a diversity of skills and personalities, and combine together to provide you with not only a professional service, but also a service abundant in enthusiasm and infinite in depth.
“The team at mountain bike tours are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.” Jo Hilton U.S.A

Sally Schott

Sally Schott –Manager/guide

Sally is your main contact person for cycle tours. She has spent several years managing multidiscipline outdoor programs throughout the world and working in the health and fitness industry. Sally has spent four years studying high performance exercise prescription in NZ and she is also an internationally certified yoga teacher, sports massage therapist and naturopathic student.

Braden Currie

Braden Currie – Operations Manager/guide

“Curries gnarly knees whippet physique indicate he’s no stranger to a wet saddle and coming off one occasionally.” Sunday Morning Herald; article by Roderick Eime.
Braden Currie is a hearty kiwi true and true. His inherent passion for the outdoors and giving his body a good thrashing are evident upon meeting him. He grew up on a farm in Canterbury New Zealand, started traveling the world at 17, spent several years guiding a range of outdoor disciplines, and sharing his passion and love for the outdoors with youth. The last three years has unearthed a new passion for multisport and adventure racing. Upon moving to Australia he has reluctantly given in to competing in Ironman races for lack of multisport opportunity. But his love for outdoor adventure still lives on and he aspires to share his passion with all those around him.

Glen Currie

Glen Currie – NZ Guide

Glen is Braden’s older brother. Glen is also a passionate, dedicated multisport athlete. In his first year of competing, he came 24th in the biggest multisport race in the world. “The coast to coast.” Since then he has taken out many events in NZ. Glen’s dedication to thrashing his body and challenging his mental integrity are second to none. But on the flip side, he’s often seen at the famous blue pub in Methven sipping on some brewskies with his mates and enjoying the winter sunshine after a casual days snowboarding at Mt Hutt. Glen is truly a genuine lover of all things kiwi! He loves his homeland and thrives on the opportunity to share its hidden beauties and iconic gems with everyone he comes in contact with. Just be careful he doesn’t convince you to take up multisport.
peter duke

Peter Duke - Guide

Peter Duke was born in Sydney, Australia and is a qualified physical education and special education teacher. He first visited Byron Bay 20 years ago. The beauty, richness, diversity and genuine friendliness of the locals that he experienced on his first day, quickly made him decided to make Byron Bay his home. Since that time he has spent his years researching and collecting a historical masterpiece that has ultimately unearthed the history and deep founded culture of Byron Bay. Peter Duke is now the author of the unique Byron Bay E-book. The e-book is an intricate collection of the past that reveals the story behind Byron Bay and connects that story with a series of historic visual images. Peter’s knowledge and passion for unearthing and connecting the past to the present is an incredible gift and you will feel an enlightened sense of understanding and awareness for local and Australian culture after spending a day or two cycling in the hills beside him.
micheal gudgeons

Michael Gudgeon – Guide

Michael is a man of many stories. Famous for contributing to the development of the three finned surfboard, saving local wildlife from the roads of Byron Bay and winning awards for his contribution to real estate. But his proudest moments in life are spent with his three kids and wife. Michael is a genuine, loveable family man and his presence ignites a sense of realization and love for the simple things.
Darby

Darby Centra - Guide

Darby has accumulated a passion for outdoor education and wilderness therapy and blends this all up with Kahuna bodywork. This is a man of many talents, many of which we are still discovering. But his richest asset is infectious sense of adventure and ability to turn an ordinary moment into something you will never forget. Loving the Byron Shire, he's keen to introduce you to the mountains, forests and coastline that make this place the best home in the world.