Category: RANT
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Compulsory Retirement Plan
Click or not: Compulsory Retirement PlanProfessional sport is a strange beast. We love to watch the big game or big race, and many of us watch the small games and small races too, no matter how meaningless they might be in the bigger picture of television rights and sponsorship and advertising revenue. If it’s not rating, it doesn’t rate a… …
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Jumping the Shark: Who Jumped First?
Click or not: Jumping the Shark: Who Jumped First?“No one ever notices the underdog until it’s biting their head off.” – me. Solid. Dependable. Established. Grey. These are words I use to describe one of the biggest brands in the business. Another I use is: boring. Shimano are the bearded accountant with an office in the basement adjacent to the mailroom and elevator.… …
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Fringe Benefits: An Alliterative Assertion
Click or not: Fringe Benefits: An Alliterative AssertionConfidently carve clear of convention. Dare to defiantly dodge the delirious delectations of the masses. Fortunate to find freedom far from flim-flam. I flee fast for a fleeting feeling of the fringe. The middle of the road is a dangerous one. Dangerous due to dullness, boredom and lacklustre. On it travel commonality and safety in… …
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Reliance And Reliability
Click or not: Reliance And ReliabilityAs we rolled into the carpark and struggled to find an empty space, the first realisation hit me; we were only a few kilometres from where we’d set out, yet here we were having to battle to park a motor vehicle among many others to ride trails that were joined to our place of departure… …
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For My Next Trick…
Click or not: For My Next Trick…Better frame geometry, more refined suspension designs and simpler/wider gearing is the shortlist of recent advances in MTB technology. For some cycle manufactures, each item on that list is not mutually exclusive and relates intrinsically to one another when it’s time to update a model. The new Santa Cruz Nomad is a classic case in point.… …
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Dickheads’ Guide To Mountain Biking
Click or not: Dickheads’ Guide To Mountain BikingIn between the superlatives, the HDR scape, the ‘grams and the SQUAD puffery flows a reality inescapable by the cantankerous, the degenerate: the bah humbugs. Often, we don’t even really have fun. We pause, tired, miles above the world and assailed by the sudden gravity of our own un-impressiveness. It’s a momentary catching of oneself,… …
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Derailed
Click or not: DerailedIs it time to banish derailleurs altogether? The big red recently released an electronic shifting system as its premier road group, so it’s only a matter of time before it trickles down to us dirt-slinging hippies. Hoo-frickin-ray. No doubt it will ‘rival’ Di2, bristle with tech and make a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier appear like good… …