Category: RIDDEN
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Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor
Click or not: Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher InterceptorInsider 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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Rigidmortis
Click or not: RigidmortisI used to ride with a dude (we’ll call him Candice) who only touched rigid singlespeeds. He owned two; one geared for flat commuting and one geared for trail use. Both were custom built by Sycip Cycles and if, like me, you despair over the influx of Chinese plastic bikes, take a look at what… …
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Insider Rides: The Retro Rod
Click or not: Insider Rides: The Retro RodInsider 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
Click or not: Insider Rides: Grom’s Tracer 275cInsider 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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Ways To Carry Stuff: BBD Dunce
Click or not: Ways To Carry Stuff: BBD DunceIn these crazy times of the construct known as Enduro, how to carry stuff on a mountain bike has become somewhat of an ongoing evolutionary process that has seen a plethora of methods employed. Have a look at an EWS pit gallery and you’ll see spare tubes taped to any available nook and cranny of… …
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Climbing The Muur
Click or not: Climbing The MuurFor 364 days of the year, at least until 2012, the smooth sealed climb of the Tenbosse doesn’t really exhibit any redeeming features besides the fact that you know what’s coming up in about ten kilometres. It wasn’t often that the script of the Ronde van Vlaanderen played out here, but that’s not to say it… …
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Worn: POC Tectal Race
Click or not: Worn: POC Tectal RaceI used to own a Volvo. A boxy, solid looking 850T5 wagon, like the ones they used to race. It was luxurious to drive, when it was going, and like all Volvos it just felt safe. Like you could run it into a truck and the truck would come off second best. The point I’m… …
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Insider Rides: Patrick’s Kona Honzo ST
Click or not: Insider Rides: Patrick’s Kona Honzo STBicycles 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… …