Category: INSIDER RIDES
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Insider Rides: Ryan’s Metro Rat 22
Click or not: Insider Rides: Ryan’s Metro Rat 22Anyone who rides anything seems to have a bling bike these days, and the amount of tech that is on the average mountain or road bike would baffle those of us who were around way back in the day when categories or niches weren’t yet invented. There were kids bikes, and adult bikes. Sometimes, the… …
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Insider Rides: Five Buck Beauty
Click or not: Insider Rides: Five Buck BeautyWhat can you get for a fiver these days? A whole shitty pizza, a slice of good pizza, a fancy foamy coffee, or a classic steel road bike. Sure, you have to be pretty lucky to get a road bike (or a coffee) for that, but when you have friends who collect and recycle roadside… …
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Insider Rides: T White’s Board Track Bomber Build
Click or not: Insider Rides: T White’s Board Track Bomber BuildWe built this board track replica for a T White’s customer that had seen a similar project we’d worked on. He was digging the worn-in look and I just happened to have this old 60s Phillips frame floating around the shop I wanted to do something special with, and this project suited its style and… …
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Insider Rides: Kim’s Niner BSB CX Nationals Rig
Click or not: Insider Rides: Kim’s Niner BSB CX Nationals RigMy obsession with bicycles has been lifelong but, somewhat ironically given my Northern Hemisphere heritage, I only started racing cyclocross in the depths of an Upper Hutt winter in 2010. Courtesy of the early days Huttcross crew, I debuted on my full suspension mountain bike and within two races had found myself an aluminium frame… …
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Insider Rides: Brian’s Triumph
Click or not: Insider Rides: Brian’s TriumphBrian is my father. He doesn’t ride bikes, but he owns more of them than I do. Most are rare, some are pristine, others litter the workshop in various states of disrepair or rebirth. Sometimes he finds some gems that I just have to commandeer for my own stable, like the MBK road bike with… …
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Insider Rides: Tom’s Crowe-Rishworth Yorkshire Ripper
Click or not: Insider Rides: Tom’s Crowe-Rishworth Yorkshire RipperThis is my Crowe-Rishworth Bicycle. It’s my do-everything-that-isn’t-mountain-biking bike and it even gives that a good go when I get carried away. Pat needs no introduction but I’d like to take this opportunity to let him know how rad the bikes are that he builds. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to get… …
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A Side Order of Awesome Part 2: Ratus Ratus
Click or not: A Side Order of Awesome Part 2: Ratus RatusLast time on the ‘Slap we looked at an all original 1983 Morrison Bikes Sidewinder (here). That particular bike had a very easy life and sits comfortably at my in progress museum along with other interesting rides I’ll share in future pieces. This week is all about a Sidewinder that hasn’t been quite so lucky… …
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Insider Rides: Stephan’s Merida Matts 900
Click or not: Insider Rides: Stephan’s Merida Matts 900There are so many ways we can have fun on bikes, any bikes. I’m constantly running into riders that seem to have some kind of misconception that if your bike isn’t the ‘mac daddy space plastic’ bike of justice you’re not having a sweet time, which is rubbish and it’s time to prove it. I… …