Tag: Insider Rides
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Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor Speedmaster
Click or not: Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor SpeedmasterI’m an impatient type of guy, mostly. I’ll lie in bed thinking about something that I need to do tomorrow, but jump up and do it right now. If it can be done inside, of course, I mean I’m not heading out to change the oil in the car or anything. So waiting for a new… …
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In Pursuit Of Going Slow
Click or not: In Pursuit Of Going SlowI pieced together a bicycle recently with nostalgia and parts-bin pragmatism. The top-of-the-line frame from 25 years ago has patina-ed well, bearing marks of use and care and enjoyment. Everything else has been scrounged, traded for beer, borrowed, or was just hanging around as these things do. I think about buying a front rack and… …
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Insider Rides: Buck’s Hinault Custom
Click or not: Insider Rides: Buck’s Hinault CustomIt’s always strange meeting people that you’ve previously only known by the wonders of the internet. I’d talked to American ex-pat Buck Rogers on a popular forum many times over the years, and his enthusiasm for all things steel, Euro, and unique leapt off the page in a cacophony of “fuck yeah!”s and “right on”s. When… …
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Insider Rides: Ryan’s Metro Rat 22
Click or not: Insider Rides: Ryan’s Metro Rat 22Anyone who rides anything seems to have a bling bike these days, and the amount of tech that is on the average mountain or road bike would baffle those of us who were around way back in the day when categories or niches weren’t yet invented. There were kids bikes, and adult bikes. Sometimes, the… …
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Insider Rides: Five Buck Beauty
Click or not: Insider Rides: Five Buck BeautyWhat can you get for a fiver these days? A whole shitty pizza, a slice of good pizza, a fancy foamy coffee, or a classic steel road bike. Sure, you have to be pretty lucky to get a road bike (or a coffee) for that, but when you have friends who collect and recycle roadside… …
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Insider Rides: T White’s Board Track Bomber Build
Click or not: Insider Rides: T White’s Board Track Bomber BuildWe built this board track replica for a T White’s customer that had seen a similar project we’d worked on. He was digging the worn-in look and I just happened to have this old 60s Phillips frame floating around the shop I wanted to do something special with, and this project suited its style and… …
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Insider Rides: Kim’s Niner BSB CX Nationals Rig
Click or not: Insider Rides: Kim’s Niner BSB CX Nationals RigMy obsession with bicycles has been lifelong but, somewhat ironically given my Northern Hemisphere heritage, I only started racing cyclocross in the depths of an Upper Hutt winter in 2010. Courtesy of the early days Huttcross crew, I debuted on my full suspension mountain bike and within two races had found myself an aluminium frame… …
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Insider Rides: Brian’s Triumph
Click or not: Insider Rides: Brian’s TriumphBrian is my father. He doesn’t ride bikes, but he owns more of them than I do. Most are rare, some are pristine, others litter the workshop in various states of disrepair or rebirth. Sometimes he finds some gems that I just have to commandeer for my own stable, like the MBK road bike with… …