Category: ORIGINAL

  • Worlds Kits: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

    Worlds Kits: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

    The Road World Championships are always a cavalcade of colour, with riders ditching their trade team allegiances and (supposedly) coming together under the colours of their home countries.A rider who may have been resplendent in their team kit all season can suddenly be reduced to looking like they shopped at K-Mart, all because of where…

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  • Lion & Paeroa

    Lion & Paeroa

    Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. Population 4,138. A similar size to Paeroa without the world-famous-in-New Zealand beverage and with bigger, closer neighbours. We’re not the first Kiwi cyclists to race in this neck of the woods. Home to Trexlertown velodrome, this spot is more often frequented by our fixed wheel cousins with a penchant for turning left. However, this…

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  • Taking A Bite Outta The Big Apple

    Taking A Bite Outta The Big Apple

    One less car. There’s nothing like a few days in a big city to remind you of the efficiencies of the humble bicycle. Faster. Cheaper. Better scenery. New Yorkers are increasingly rollin’ from A to B in the Big Apple orchard. 450,000 daily bike rides may go some way to explain the insatiable appetite of…

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  • Huttcross 2018 Grand Finale

    Huttcross 2018 Grand Finale

    That’s a wrap, folks! Lambs are frolicking in the fields. Wellington’s weather system is turning to something more unpredictable than a Trump administration. Spring must be here. With a changing of the seasons, we bid adieu to Huttcross 2018. The new Huttcross Veldrijden Crew dished up a bumper series this year with bigger numbers than…

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  • Johan Works Alone

    Johan Works Alone

    He works alone. The chatter and background euro-pop radio from the factory floor briefly whispers in whenever the door opens, but inside here there is calm and silence, broken only by the sounds of a craftsman at work. Johan Vranckx is a man of few words, but with a welcoming kind smile and a warm…

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  • FOJCX 2018: Joyful & Triumphant

    FOJCX 2018: Joyful & Triumphant

    You’ll be forgiven if you haven’t heard of Sunbury CC. They’re a small club. With an even smaller CX crew. In the hipster city of Melbs. Back in 2014, that rambunctious rabble had a bold vision that Australia could become a player in the globalisation of cyclocross. Their strategy was to place Straya in the…

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  • Huttcross #5: One Liners And A Bit Of Joy

    Huttcross #5: One Liners And A Bit Of Joy

    While the Biggest Cyclocross Party in the Southern Hemisphere posse aka Fields of Joy CX gang aka Melbourne GP of Cyclocross corps (sheesh – more pseudonyms than Prince) were praying for rain in Victoria, the Huttcross working party were busy scoping out the least wet areas of Moonshine Park for their penultimate round of the season. The sun…

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  • Worn: fi’zi:k M3B Uomo Shoes

    Worn: fi’zi:k M3B Uomo Shoes

    It used to be that shoes came in either mountain or road varieties, with not much in the way of choice in either category. Mountain meant XC, basically lightweight, stiff-soled shoes with Velcro straps and maybe a buckle, and either so well-vented that the mesh would fall apart and your toes would be poking out…

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