Category: SUBSTANCE

  • For The Ages

    For The Ages

    All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. Somehow these lines are still swirling around my head; penned by Shakespeare centuries ago, they have managed to outwit my stunted short term memory and defunct…

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  • Bowie Schools Paxman

    Bowie Schools Paxman

    In which the Thin White Duke predicts the future role of the internet and music to a supercilious twat.

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  • Skippy On The Kirk Magnesium

    Skippy On The Kirk Magnesium

    I once owned one of the notorious Merida magnesium road bike frames, which I attained despite the bad press and word of mouth that warned of a harsh ride and inevitable cracking. It actually rode quite nicely, and then cracked. It was pretty much the last time magnesium was seen in mass use for bicycle…

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  • Skippy Feels Like A Tooheys. Or Two.

    Skippy Feels Like A Tooheys. Or Two.

    The 70s and 80s were a great time to be an Aussie bloke. There was no PC crowd gone mad, you could drink and smoke whenever and wherever the hell you wanted, and the telly told you which brands were the most macho. Morphing from a 70s kid to an 80s teen, I knew exactly…

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  • XPDTN3 Goes Round The Lake

    XPDTN3 Goes Round The Lake

    The trails around Lake Tahoe in California are more commonly tackled on mountain bikes these days, but the three-day adventurers from XPDTN3 don’t care much for doing things by the book. They tackled the complete Tahoe Rim Trail on their rigid, fully-loaded gravel bikes and harked back to the days when bikes were simpler and…

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  • Food For The Soul: Torino-Nice Rally

    Food For The Soul: Torino-Nice Rally

    The latest ubiquitous bikepacking video edit has landed from Bombtrack. What used to be the nighttime urban mountain bike video turned longest fixie skid / trackstand / paint-drying video has now become an introspective voiced-over documentary of what it’s like to ride a bag-laden bicycle a very, very long way surprisingly quickly across beautiful landscapes and…

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  • McGazza Fest

    McGazza Fest

    Homage to a big man with a big heart by big air and big smiles. McGazza Fest celebrates a life lived in the best possible way.

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  • Bowie Leaves His Stamp

    Bowie Leaves His Stamp

    What better way to honour a dead rock star than with a set of postage stamps. Ah, but Bowie was no mere rock star, and the British are known to commemorate their heroes in a most peculiar way. Royal Mail has just upped their rock star reverie game with a ten-stamp homage to the Thin White Duke himself. Six of the…

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