Tag: Giro
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Day Trippers: Featherston Overnighter
Click or not: Day Trippers: Featherston Overnighter“Credit card bikepacking” is a term that I hadn’t heard or even knew existed until recently. In fact, bikepacking was only a word that was easily dismissed as something that other, more adventurous and/or hardy types did. Adding a shitload of weight to a bike and then pedalling off up some boring gravel road to… …
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Worn: Giro Jacket Shoe
Click or not: Worn: Giro Jacket ShoeIf you wanted a solid flat pedal shoe, the go-to brand has always been, in my opinion, Five Ten. The solid construction of the leather upper combined with their legendary Stealth rubber sole gave one no doubt that shoe and pedal would be stuck together tighter than Trump and a spray tan. But that was… …
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Grinduro!
Click or not: Grinduro!Trying to describe a multi-stage race using gravel roads and singletrack and whatever damn bike you like seems fruitless and convoluted. The end result though is a lot less complex, and should simply be filed under “good times”. Bikes, beer, beats, dust and friends old and new: this is Grinduro. Inaugural race winner Barry Wicks vowed to… …
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Worn: Giro Synthe
Click or not: Worn: Giro SyntheAero has taken over the Pro road peloton, with varying results. While actual Pros don’t really care what they look like in the quest to get the ultimate performance edge, or are compelled to wear/ride whatever their team sponsors’ decree, we mere mortals sometimes blindly follow what’s ‘Pro’ without a thought as to how ridiculous… …