Category: BIKES
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Weekend
Click or not: WeekendTwas a time just a few psyops ago that I would love riding with my ‘mates’. But it was always about getting there and back, fast, about performance, and how we looked, and the bikes we rode. It was great, because we were riding, but we weren’t really experiencing. They’ve gone, my quest for performance… …
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Paul’s Pro Cruiser Got Restored
Click or not: Paul’s Pro Cruiser Got RestoredThis little tale has it all; a seminal steel bike, Mert Lawill, flat track racing, On Any Sunday, fucking Oakley 3s and Koski forks(!) and Paul himself relating all that’s awesome about a time, a place, a legend or six all rolled into one. …
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6FT Hick: Notes From The Underground
Click or not: 6FT Hick: Notes From The UndergroundFrom VietNambour to Lorient, 6ft Hick wage an internal war, with external casualties strewn across the rock n roll battlefield of France. Witness the carnage, the carnal, the carnival of commitment and causality HERE …
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Tomac, Zap And The C-26
Click or not: Tomac, Zap And The C-26Ok kiddies, sit down and pay attention. Today’s seminar in the History of Awesome takes us back to the dawn of the 90s, undisputedly the halcyon days of mountain biking. Eli’s dad and the OG Mexican moto/mounto scribe Zap lay it all out for The Pro’s Closet, and give this old man the goosebumps. …
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Lifers
Click or not: LifersGreystoke Magazine is stoking the grey BMXer in us all. I can smell the plywood ramps and homemade number plates and stickers from here… ahhhh. …
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When Boys Were Men And Berms Had Rocks In Them
Click or not: When Boys Were Men And Berms Had Rocks In Them None of that smooth concrete business here, just dust and rocks son, ROCKS! Just a good Aussie family day out in the 80s. Eatin’ sausage rolls, dirt and your own teeth. …
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Rat Rides: Ryan’s RootBeer Cannondale
Click or not: Rat Rides: Ryan’s RootBeer CannondaleOur resident Rat Rider Ryan has been churning out a constant flow of unique, radical bikes with his mate in their workshop lately. From chopped choppers to cruisy shoppers, the results are always like nothing you’ve seen before; every bike a one-off, something we are completely au fait with here in Chainslap Garage. As we’ve… …
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Chainslap Garage Presents: ‘Hotblack Desiato’ CAAD4
Click or not: Chainslap Garage Presents: ‘Hotblack Desiato’ CAAD4I remember it well. The intersection of Evans Street and Ross, a gentleman older than me. To my left he rode, alongside a Kombi van likely piloted by a stoned me. Almost definitely. It was the bulk, the ‘fatness’ that drew my attention. Not that of the rider, but of the bicycle underneath him. Accustomed… …