Category: BIKES
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Claudio Marinangeli: The Gate Keeper
Click or not: Claudio Marinangeli: The Gate KeeperIn true fashion, it takes nine people to put the clock up, seven of those help verbally. Now we can see the time we can see that it is late and that everyone should get started. Don’t tell the riders that have already filtered off though, getting their first stamp of the day and spinning… …
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Scrotty Mods: The SPD Grease Port
Click or not: Scrotty Mods: The SPD Grease PortThe SPD pedal is a stalwart. You can’t throw a rock without hitting a set that’s weathered years and years of abuse. If there’s a downtrodden parts bin build rattling around the trails, it’s a pretty safe bet there’ll be a set of M530s wound into her. This mod was conceived by Mike Trudgen, ordinarily… …
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PB & J
Click or not: PB & JThe cornfields of Iowa were calling. Memories of Jinglecross 2017 were turned on their head for the Mid West experience this time around. One year ago, it was a game of ice packs by day and short sleeves by night with the blare from Friday night’s party on the hill still ringing in my ears and ranking heavily on the list of favourite… …
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Worlds Kits: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Click or not: Worlds Kits: The Good, The Bad, The UglyThe Road World Championships are always a cavalcade of colour, with riders ditching their trade team allegiances and (supposedly) coming together under the colours of their home countries.A rider who may have been resplendent in their team kit all season can suddenly be reduced to looking like they shopped at K-Mart, all because of where… …
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Experiments In Speed
Click or not: Experiments In SpeedThere’s going fast on a bicycle, and there’s going faaast on a bicycle. Donhou Bicycles are renown for their beautiful steel road bikes and time trial bikes, but this pet project took on a whole new level of design, commitment and straight up craziness. Experiments in speed. Inspired by those great men of the salt… …
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Painting By Numbers
Click or not: Painting By Numbers16 ounces. Or 473 mls. That’s your regular latte in the US of A. You can forget ordering a piccolo in the MidWest. Points. Placings. Grid positions. It’s a numbers game and this close to the mega business end of racing you can overlook the bigger picture stuff if you get too bogged down in… …
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Lion & Paeroa
Click or not: Lion & PaeroaBreinigsville, Pennsylvania. Population 4,138. A similar size to Paeroa without the world-famous-in-New Zealand beverage and with bigger, closer neighbours. We’re not the first Kiwi cyclists to race in this neck of the woods. Home to Trexlertown velodrome, this spot is more often frequented by our fixed wheel cousins with a penchant for turning left. However, this… …
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Taking A Bite Outta The Big Apple
Click or not: Taking A Bite Outta The Big AppleOne less car. There’s nothing like a few days in a big city to remind you of the efficiencies of the humble bicycle. Faster. Cheaper. Better scenery. New Yorkers are increasingly rollin’ from A to B in the Big Apple orchard. 450,000 daily bike rides may go some way to explain the insatiable appetite of… …