Category: BIKES

  • Ride First, Bike Later

    Ride First, Bike Later

    The act of riding bikes seems to be heading in a direction it hasn’t been since, well, people started riding bikes. Is the ride––going places, seeing things, meeting people––taking back from the bicycle its rightful place as the single most important aspect of cycling? We think so, as do these switched on folk. Dirt, water, mountains, fire,…

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  • Insider Rides: Kev’s Serotta CSI

    Insider Rides: Kev’s Serotta CSI

    Insider Rides looks at the bikes that we ride, the bikes that industry insiders ride, that racers ride, and everyday folk ride. This instalment is graced by a bike with a history and a backstory that adds more glory to its already pedigreed name. We present Kev’s very special Serotta CSI.  A Gratis I’ve never won…

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  • Stanton Warriors

    Stanton Warriors

    Every time the likes of Stanton drop one of these videos, thoughts always turn to getting a hardtail again. Then you realise that you’ll never ride it like these guys but you really want one anyway. And do hardtail riders seem to find the best places to ride or what? New Zealand hardtail connoisseurs can now…

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  • Putting Trust In Wellington Trails

    Putting Trust In Wellington Trails

    Those of us lucky enough to live in Wellington know about the quality and quantity of the mountain bike trails scattered in and around the city. Those outside of it, maybe not so much. Wellington Trails Trust has been set up to get the word out and put the capital up with the likes of…

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  • Carla Fuentes’ “Le Tour”

    Carla Fuentes’ “Le Tour”

    Occasionally we stumble across little nuggets of beauty when bicycles and art intersect. Carla Fuentes is an illustrator with an eye for detail and a deft touch with textures in mixed media. There’s an elegance to her brightly coloured work, the stripped back compositions tactile and feel intimate. Lucy Bourton from itsnicethat.com describes her work thus: Her series…

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  • Dirt Is The New Road: Schaal Sels

    Dirt Is The New Road: Schaal Sels

    What do you do when your 90 year old road race needs a breath of fresh air to put it back on the map? Well you take it off-road of course. Schaal Sels in Belgium’s Merksem region did just that in 2014, adding in not only some typical pavé but also dirt roads, farm tracks…

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  • Catalyst: Mud Cows

    Catalyst: Mud Cows

    Nostalgia and sentimentality can be fraught with danger. Yes, things were always better in the good old days, every decade we look back and decide the last one was better than this one, but it wasn’t as good as the one before it… mountain bikers may be the most confused in this regard, as we…

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  • Nick Cave’s Darkest Hour Comes To Light

    Nick Cave’s Darkest Hour Comes To Light

    Darkness descends, floating upon strings stroked by the grim reaper himself. What could be the sound of tortured crows emanates throughout with a regularity you plead to cease, though when they inevitably do, a sense of even more disconnect invites them back to provide an uneasy comfort. More haunted than haunting. Solemnity dominates. The pain so evident it makes you want…

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