Category: BIKES

  • Drovers

    Drovers

    Filmed on the ‘Drovers Trail’, a new 331 km-long gravel bikepacking route spanning almost the entirety of Highland Perthshire, ‘Drovers‘ tells the story of the ancient drove roads, an important part of Scottish history, which inspired Scotland’s greatest writers like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. The new video from round the world singlespeed cyclist…

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  • Huttcross 20.1: Boogie Wonderland

    Huttcross 20.1: Boogie Wonderland

    Post pandemic party mode pulled into Petone on Sunday. The Huttcross crew were pumped to lay down that boogie harbourside. Arguably the most picturesque offering on the Huttcross bill of fare, Hikoikoi Reserve serves up grass camber, driftwood barriers, and shale pits while sittin’ on the dock of the bay. Two hundred and forty-eight riders…

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  • Café du Cycliste brings the Bikepacking Bible

    Café du Cycliste brings the Bikepacking Bible

    I’ve owned a Café du Cycliste lightweight jacket for a couple of years now, and while it’s probably one of my least-used pieces of kit, it’s also one of my favourites. Beautifully made, functional and great looking. They know their stuff. So browsing through their new Ultimate Guide To Bikepacking and Adventure Cycling you get…

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  • OPEN U.P. your cheque-book to the Lord

    OPEN U.P. your cheque-book to the Lord

      The dentist, the luddite and the Superbike.   Glossary here. I suspect it’s no coincidence that OPEN make bicycles with model names like OPEN UP and OPEN WIDE. If this is not a clever subliminal marketing attempt at the well-healed “dentist” portion of the bicycle market, then I don’t know what is. Unfortunately I do…

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  • Ridden: Works Components Angle Headset

    Ridden: Works Components Angle Headset

    How does one review a headset? Normally, pretty easily; how well does it spin, how long does it last? Without riding it for five years then saying “yeah, it’s durable but now it’s five years after it should have been reviewed”, it’s not really feasible to comment on durability if you’ve had a dozen rides…

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  • Ridden: Vittoria Corsa Tubeless

    Ridden: Vittoria Corsa Tubeless

    Road tubeless is still a relatively new thing, yet one we’ve been crying out for for years. We’ve been tubeless off-road for decades, so why did it take so long to perfect the road tubeless technology? We don’t know, but we finally feel like the tech is finally trustworthy (what with those high pressures) and…

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  • Songs for the Apocalypse: The Fear

    Songs for the Apocalypse: The Fear

    It’s everywhere and you’ve caught it.

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  • Doing It Right at De Ronde

    Doing It Right at De Ronde

    I was travelling light. I’d managed to get a full glass of beer spilt on me the previous night (good story, for another time) and although I’d quickly rinsed the beer off my only pair of trousers I figured I’d be working outside on the race and should be safe. Sitting on the back of…

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