Category: CATALYST
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The Best Song Ever Written: Setting Sun
Click or not: The Best Song Ever Written: Setting SunMusic, on the whole, is a tool. It’s been used for centuries to invoke trance-like states, to imbue minds with subliminal messaging, to control those same minds. It’s been a huge part of my life, but these days I see it more as a tool of evil rather than good. That’s not to say I… …
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Drool Factor + : Manitou Looks Backwards To See Forwards
Click or not: Drool Factor + : Manitou Looks Backwards To See ForwardsThe early to mid 90s (heck, the whole of the 90s) were a time of innovation and experimentation for the mountain bike industry. It was the golden age, the halcyon days. My ultimate dream bike among many at the time was the Manitou FS, with its unique rear suspension system utilising basically a Manitou fork… …
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The Greatest Skateboarding Photos Ever Taken
Click or not: The Greatest Skateboarding Photos Ever TakenJay Adams, Teardrop, 1976. Glen E. Friedman’s first-ever published photograph, original full-frame color. They sum up a whole culture, a period of time, puts you (back) in a place you may never have been, but lived through it vicariously, when boys became men and shaped the future of a sport, themselves, and the paths they… …
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Paul’s Pro Cruiser Got Restored
Click or not: Paul’s Pro Cruiser Got RestoredThis little tale has it all; a seminal steel bike, Mert Lawill, flat track racing, On Any Sunday, fucking Oakley 3s and Koski forks(!) and Paul himself relating all that’s awesome about a time, a place, a legend or six all rolled into one. …
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Tomac, Zap And The C-26
Click or not: Tomac, Zap And The C-26Ok kiddies, sit down and pay attention. Today’s seminar in the History of Awesome takes us back to the dawn of the 90s, undisputedly the halcyon days of mountain biking. Eli’s dad and the OG Mexican moto/mounto scribe Zap lay it all out for The Pro’s Closet, and give this old man the goosebumps. …
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Lifers
Click or not: LifersGreystoke Magazine is stoking the grey BMXer in us all. I can smell the plywood ramps and homemade number plates and stickers from here… ahhhh. …
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Revisited: Herygers Humiliates Holland
Click or not: Revisited: Herygers Humiliates HollandThe title of this video nails it; Koksijde 1994 really was a significant moment in modern cyclocross racing, for reasons good, bad, and a little bit ugly at times. It was also the first time I’d watched a ‘cross race, when SBS TV aired the full replay one Sunday morning. Sat with VCR remote in… …
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Songs For The Apocalypse: If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
Click or not: Songs For The Apocalypse: If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be NextFor over twenty years it’s been a brilliant song, it was just never realised the Manic Street Preachers were predictive programmers as well as great musicians. The future teaches you to be alone The present to be afraid and cold So if I can shoot rabbits Then I can shoot fascists Bullets for your brain… …