Tag: Insider Rides

  • Rat Rides: Ryan’s RootBeer Cannondale

    Rat Rides: Ryan’s RootBeer Cannondale

    Our resident Rat Rider Ryan has been churning out a constant flow of unique, radical bikes with his mate in their workshop lately. From chopped choppers to cruisy shoppers, the results are always like nothing you’ve seen before; every bike a one-off, something we are completely au fait with here in Chainslap Garage. As we’ve…

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  • Chainslap Garage Presents: ‘Hotblack Desiato’ CAAD4

    Chainslap Garage Presents: ‘Hotblack Desiato’ CAAD4

    I remember it well. The intersection of Evans Street and Ross, a gentleman older than me. To my left he rode, alongside a Kombi van likely piloted by a stoned me. Almost definitely. It was the bulk, the ‘fatness’ that drew my attention. Not that of the rider, but of the bicycle underneath him. Accustomed…

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  • Insider Rides: Hayden McCormick’s Team BridgeLane Cervelo R5

    Insider Rides: Hayden McCormick’s Team BridgeLane Cervelo R5

    Hayden’s a dude. Just the right amount of chilled and focused, while more than able to laugh at himself and twists and turns that his life throws at him. Currently racing in the Tour of Utah, we caught up with Hayden one summer afternoon in his Te Awamutu hometown, where he talked us through the…

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  • Insider Rides: Brett’s Merckx Team SC

    Insider Rides: Brett’s Merckx Team SC

    “Ah, I know this bike!” And so he should’ve. It had carried him to one of his victories in Paris-Roubaix, plus a host of other wins and podiums in major races. Of course I had to let him ride it, but somehow and for reasons unknown I failed to get photographic evidence. I mean, what…

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  • Insider Rides: Jack Bauer’s Scott Foil

    Insider Rides: Jack Bauer’s Scott Foil

    Yesterday Russell caught up with Craig Geater, the mechanic of the Mitchelton-Scott team, meeting them before the team recce of the Paris Roubaix. There Craig talked him through the tweaks they do for Jack Bauer’s bike and some of the prep for Sunday. “In the past years we used to do a lot of different…

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  • Insider Rides: Mathieu Van der Poel’s Canyon Aeroad

    Insider Rides: Mathieu Van der Poel’s Canyon Aeroad

    The kassien is calling. Around Flanders, frites are frying in questionable fat sources under makeshift gazebos, truckloads of cheap generic beer makes its way into muddy fields to be dispensed in the worst kind of plastic cups that render the beer even more tasteless, ending up trampled into the slop alongside broken yellow flags and…

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  • Insider Rides: Backy’s Ritchey Outback

    Insider Rides: Backy’s Ritchey Outback

    Last week we shared some photos of a bright yellow Ritchey Outback on Instagram and our newsletter and I’ve had a lot of questions and comments on the bike so I thought I’d go into more detail about it. The bike belongs to Brent Backhouse, a graphic designer who does work for RocketEspresso and Eleven, and also…

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  • Insider Rides: Ryan’s ‘Low Certification’ Chopper

    Insider Rides: Ryan’s ‘Low Certification’ Chopper

    This build was my first serious “low to no budget” build that would be shown to a large forum and judged on as well by the members of Ratrodbikes.com I can’t even remember how I got the Chopper in the first place,it was all original but missing the back wheel and in a sad state,I…

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