Category: READ
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Gorging Yourself Part 2
Click or not: Gorging Yourself Part 2Roads are in thin, smooth scabs in compliant earth. Suture-work fencing is pulling the surfaces inwards. Chemistry-set soil leachate agitates raindrops. The hillside scars with exposure burns. Liquid ghosts vapourise, implode and cough rearwards, propelling two boys in a station wagon, wishing for the best. The air makes eternal sounds, scattering. The city is serviced… …
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Positive Vibrations At Good Rotations
Click or not: Positive Vibrations At Good Rotations“We hear the term ‘life changing’ often”. (Babu Blatt on customers who changed their mindset.) You expect to hear phrases like “tightening margins” and “limited import supply” from a normal bike shop and not ones such as “promoting cycling advocacy” and “council cooperation” but Matt Quirk and Babu Blatt are not normal bike shop owners… …
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Patent Leather Magic
Click or not: Patent Leather MagicJoe Parkin may not be a household name, even in cycling circles, but he’s done a hell of a lot as both a rider and an author. Heck, he was even Editor of the best mtb magazine in the world, Bike, and then its road spinoff Paved, for a couple of years. His books A… …
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Dig, Then Hate, Then Dig Again
Click or not: Dig, Then Hate, Then Dig AgainWhen I was a kid I didn’t much care for the taste of broccoli, or prawns. I remember my mother taking me across the street one day to visit Mr and Mrs Moody, where old Fred was proudly handing out freshly caught and cooked prawns. I put one in my mouth and instantaneously felt like I’d… …
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Carla Fuentes’ “Le Tour”
Click or not: 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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Dead Rock Stars: Where Are They Potentially?
Click or not: Dead Rock Stars: Where Are They Potentially?Everyone at some stage has probably posed the question “what would Rock Star X be like if they were still alive?” Well, they’re rock stars, and if they died in a pool of their own vomit, there’s a good chance they lived the rest of their life in a pool of vomit too. We’ve taken… …
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Age Is Just A Number: Baxter Maiwald Breaks Out
Click or not: Age Is Just A Number: Baxter Maiwald Breaks OutBaxter Maiwald is a 17 year old Melbourne-based downhill rider following the UCI World Cup series, having only taken up riding a mere three years ago after seeing some DH videos on YouTube. Although he had been riding BMX and motocross since a very young age, mountain biking was a whole new challenge and he has grabbed his chances with… …
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Topp Honour For Hucking Cody
Click or not: Topp Honour For Hucking CodyHawkes Bay mountain biker, surfer, award-winning author and all-round good guy Aaron Topp has been nominated as a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards For Children And Young Adults for his excellent teen fiction novel Hucking Cody. Topp previously won an Honour Award at the 2007 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards’ Best First Young Adult Fiction Book… …