Tag: America
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Outskirts: Route 66
Click or not: Outskirts: Route 66If you’ve had the pleasure of watching any of the Thereabouts films, you’ll know the inspiration for what makes them tick; getting out on the bike with good friends, amplified by crazy massive distances, in places that seem less than ideal or even hospitable for cycling. Outskirts takes Gus Morton’s latest crew across America on… …
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Best Retirement Ever: Yosemite National Park
Click or not: Best Retirement Ever: Yosemite National Park It must be hard to be the worst at something if you’re still pretty good at it. Phil seems to have figured that out and now, instead of sometimes sucking at taking back KOMs for the good guys, he’s turned his lazy-ass ways to kicking back in some of the USA’s most scenic destinations. …
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Comes With Baggage
Click or not: Comes With BaggageBikepacking isn’t exactly a new thing. In fact it’s probably one of the oldest ways to ride a bicycle there is. When bikes were simple contraptions made to transport people and their goods between locations, rather than a fun machine made to carry its rider at breakneck speeds to beat other passengers to a finishing… …
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XPDTN3 Goes Round The Lake
Click or not: XPDTN3 Goes Round The LakeThe 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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A Field In Portland
Click or not: A Field In PortlandA Rat’s eye view of the chaotic mire that was Portland’s Singlespeed Cylcocross World Championship. It must be noted that helmet cams always reduce the scale and consequence of wine casks and muddy ball pits. The estimable Sven Nys could be found at the 2016 iteration of bike based debauchery yet was undone by the… …
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Raleighing
Click or not: RaleighingCombing city streets for suitable bumps and ledges off which to jump your bicycle is more enduro than you might think. Each spot is effectively a stage, a race against security of varied enthusiasm. Following his excellent, self filmed and edited video for Madera bmx earlier in the year; Dan Foley’s latest is a brief… …
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Videoboy
Click or not: VideoboyWhile The Videoboy Chronicles might suggest a more louche flavour of content, Sam Smith’s latest observation of American cyclocross racing is Cinéma vérité when it comes to bike media. Comfortably unfettered by “brought to you by…” or “powered by…” prefixes, Smith’s meandering lens provides glimpses of discounted and peripheral moments in bike racing; the muted… …