Tag: enduro
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Ridden: Look X-Track En-Rage Pedals
Click or not: Ridden: Look X-Track En-Rage PedalsLook was one of the first, actually the first company to make a clipless pedal. And if you’re reading that and thinking “but these are clip-in pedals” then you’re not from the time when pedals had toe-clips and straps to hold your feet somewhat precariously to the pedals. When the cleat and retension spring system… …
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Don’t Rage Against These Machines
Click or not: Don’t Rage Against These Machines You just know it’s inevitable that e-bikes are going to be increasingly popular and visible on the trails. It’s happening already, I’ve seen a few high-end machines around here already, probably ridden by people who were anti until they actually rode one. Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford isn’t someone you’d want to… …
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Ways To Carry Stuff: All In Multitool
Click or not: Ways To Carry Stuff: All In MultitoolThe backpack is dead. Long live bumbags, bottles, and tools and tubes attached/taped/stuffed into every nook and cranny on your bike. So enduro™. While the sweaty back and sore shoulders may not be completely obliterated from mountain biking, there has been a definite movement away from carrying water and a heap of god-knows-what in usually… …
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So Unduro: The Kim Jong Un-duro Is Back!
Click or not: So Unduro: The Kim Jong Un-duro Is Back!Citizens of New Zealand – for the glory of your Great Country – your venerable Supreme Leaders request your participation in the annual Kim Jong Un-duro. Foreign countries will tremble at our awesome display of Unduroness – and their leaders will know that our Men, our Women, and our Children are truly an Unduro force… …
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The Great Plus +/- Minus Experiment
Click or not: The Great Plus +/- Minus ExperimentWith a new innovation seemingly rolling out every week in mountain biking, it’s easy for some of them to get left by the wayside, while others slip seamlessly into the mainstream and take over as a new standard while you weren’t looking. When 27.5 or––650b as it was first known––hit the scene, it seemed only… …
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Girls On Dirt
Click or not: Girls On DirtWhat is Girls On Dirt? It’s a ‘women’s only’ enduro race. Christchurch-based mountain biker Jason Turner helped start a girls only riding group called Girls on Dirt, and saw “a bit of gap with the current enduro races and the small numbers of female riders. So I wanted to see if we could get more… …
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Wyn Win Situation: Mud Masters Of The EWS
Click or not: Wyn Win Situation: Mud Masters Of The EWSThe Whakarewarewa Forest is a magical place, a peaceful oasis on the edge of town set amongst giant redwood trees and enveloping punga ferns, with snaking trails carved into loamy rich soil covered in varicose roots that never fail to fill one with joy. Add in some rain and hundreds of speed-crazed enduro riders to… …
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Winning With Winston: The 2017 Enduro First Enduro
Click or not: Winning With Winston: The 2017 Enduro First EnduroWords Tom Adams. Images Dan Sharpe / www.visualsby.me and Edward Wilcock @edwardwilcockphotography First a brief backstory. In 2015 Aidan Forrest and myself decided to run a low-key, low-budget, low-everything enduro at Wellington’s Makara Peak Bike Park. We used Noel Leeming kitchen timers at each stage start and finish, and riders recorded their own times on a piece… …