Category: BIKES

  • Friday Fugazi: Mayhem At The Morrow

    Friday Fugazi: Mayhem At The Morrow

    This is a specially personal FF for me. Watching this epic video shot by an old friend brings back the taste of warm VB, the dry mouth and glorious lack of oxygen from a smoke-filled room, salty sticky bodies sliding against each other, the crush of the throng losing their shit yet at the same…

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  • The Rift Is Proper Gnar

    The Rift Is Proper Gnar

    Ted King seems to be a proper dude. Escaping the circus that is Pro road racing and doing it for the love, rather than the likes, hitting some of the hardest gravel races in the world and usually mixing it up at the pointy end, even if that’s not the motivation for pinning on a number.…

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  • ACXF: Trending Right Now

    ACXF: Trending Right Now

    Words: Kim Hurst  Images: Dominic Blissett It’s always happy hour somewhere in the world. Surely that relates to cyclocross racing as much as pinot o’clock. As the Southern Hemisphere mourns the parting of CX, our Northern friends hand over the baton with #crossisnearlyhere Insta posts trending right now. They’ll get their just desserts by time…

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  • Insider Rides: Hayden McCormick’s Team BridgeLane Cervelo R5

    Insider Rides: Hayden McCormick’s Team BridgeLane Cervelo R5

    Hayden’s a dude. Just the right amount of chilled and focused, while more than able to laugh at himself and twists and turns that his life throws at him. Currently racing in the Tour of Utah, we caught up with Hayden one summer afternoon in his Te Awamutu hometown, where he talked us through the…

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  • Cross Oddities

    Cross Oddities

    Albert Einstein once said, “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else”. A genius renowned for his love of the humble bicycle, clearly had a badass race game with a mantra like that. And given his mo’, I’m pretty sure he killed it on the…

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  • Oliver Naessen Just Got Cooler

    Oliver Naessen Just Got Cooler

    As if we needed more reasons to love Oliver Naessen, he goes and rides this Eddy Merckx Corsa steel stunner in the last stage of the Tour. Oh man, Oli, you gotta give this thing a run at Roubaix and really make some history!

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  • Huttcross 19.5: Area 51

    Huttcross 19.5: Area 51

    PSA: CX fever has spread like an epidemic in the Lower North Island this winter. With CX fever following a similar trajectory to the viral outbreak of Storm Area 51, Huttcross sought to hit its peak outbreak by breaching a secluded spot of Upper Hutt that lies behind locked gates and high fencing for a…

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  • Fluid Trails

    Fluid Trails

    Fluid Trails follows three adventurers as they make their way across Kahurangi National Park, New Zealand via mountain bike and packraft. The park is an ancient place of rare birds, rolling alpine tussock, earthquake shattered peaks and towering podocarp forests. A place of colonialism gold fever and endeavour. A place of cascading rivers and winding…

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