Category: INSIDER RIDES

  • Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor

    Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor

    Insider Rides looks at the bikes that we ride, the bikes that industry insiders ride, that racers ride, and everyday folk ride. This time out, we take a look at the road bike of head-Slapper Brett, a bike conceived over many years in the mind, and eventually realised in the spiritual heartland of cycling. Cyclists love to…

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  • Insider Rides: The Retro Rod

    Insider Rides: The Retro Rod

    Insider Rides looks at the bikes that we ride, the bikes that industry insiders ride, that racers ride, and everyday folk ride. For this instalment, we take it back in time, way back to, oh, only 2009… have bikes really come this far in seven years? Rod Bardsley put together this Trek TopFuel with some bits from…

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  • Insider Rides: Grom’s Tracer 275c

    Insider Rides: Grom’s Tracer 275c

    Insider Rides looks at the bikes that we ride, the bikes that industry insiders ride, that racers ride, and everyday folk ride. For this instalment, we are shown around the Intense Tracer 275c of Kris ‘Grom’ Withington, guru at Wide Open Distributors in Rotorua and former mechanic for the Garmin pro road racing team. While Kris still…

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  • Insider Rides: Patrick’s Kona Honzo ST

    Insider Rides: Patrick’s Kona Honzo ST

    Bicycles can be too pretty. The swooping, tapering carbon-fibre and hydroformed aluminium frames of most modern mountain bikes are immensely covetable without doubt, yet with each winters ride, with each stone chip from each poorly executed dismount a once glossy countenance will inexorably fade. There are, of course, the enviable few who manage to shrug…

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