Category: RIDDEN
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Ridden: The Rocky Mountain Instinct 950 MSL Double Review
Click or not: Ridden: The Rocky Mountain Instinct 950 MSL Double ReviewRocky Mountain Bicycles have a heritage that is steeped in Canadian coolness. With a new NZ distributor they are making an impact with some dialled bikes that are worthy contenders in the higher-end of the trail bike and all-mountain markets. Two of our testers with disparate riding styles, Kah Chan and Sasha Smith spent a good… …
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Ridden: Specialized EMT Top Cap Chain Breaker
Click or not: Ridden: Specialized EMT Top Cap Chain BreakerAs sure as death and taxes, you’re going to break/bend/twist a chain at least once in your riding life. Just as you pack a tube and a pump for a ride, a chain tool should be an essential item in your kit. Many of them are either too bulky, heavy or useless to actually get… …
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How To Get Your Ass Into Gear: WTB Volt
Click or not: How To Get Your Ass Into Gear: WTB VoltIf there is something that is sure to ruin a relationship, it’s pain or discomfort every time you jump aboard your beloved. And so it was with me recently, when even an hour on the trails started to result in an unpleasant feeling in my nether regions. As I have gotten older, my riding position… …
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Pumped: Silca Impero Ultimate
Click or not: Pumped: Silca Impero UltimateThe frame pump is a much-maligned piece of equipment, suffering in the last decade or so from the proliferation of minimalist pumps and Co2 canisters, and its incompatibility with a lot of modern road frames with their swoopy carbon tubes. It didn’t really matter that it remained the best, most-efficient way to inflate a tyre, it… …
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Ridden: Shimano XT 11-46 Cassette
Click or not: Ridden: Shimano XT 11-46 CassetteWhat can you say about something that is somewhat of an unglamourous piece in the puzzle that we call a bicycle, such as a cassette? Every geared bike has one, they vary in the numbers of cogs, and those cogs can vary in the number of teeth on each. They allow you to shift the chain… …
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My Pet Shark
Click or not: My Pet SharkWhether you’re riding big wheels or small, fat tyres or thin, full squish or full stiff, the name of the game these days is gearing. It’s feeling like the early days in the industry again with everyone jumping on the narrow wide chainring bandwagon as well as bailout cogs. The leader of this movement is… …
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Ridden: Intense Recluse
Click or not: Ridden: Intense RecluseRight about now Intense Cycles are pulling yet another new bike from the shed, and we’ve been able to get a few rides in on it. The Recluse is a mid-travel bike with a slant towards the rowdy end of things. With 27.5 hoops, Boost, a 150mm Fox 36 fork and 140mm of Float X2 damped rear… …
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Ridden: Shimano RX830 Wheelset
Click or not: Ridden: Shimano RX830 WheelsetEarlier in the year I was down at the LBS trying to figure out what steps I’d need to take to turn my Tour Aotearoa rig into a race bike for the 2016 Hüttcross season. So it was very timely when ChainSlap asked if I’d be keen to demo a set of Shimano’s RX830 road/cyclocross… …