Tag: Mountain Biking
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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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Racing Winter
Click or not: Racing Winter Sure, it’s a bike brand promo, but this effort from Yeti has enough good shit going on that you probably won’t feel that you need a 10k bike to justify your own sad mountain biking existence, where there is no snow, dust, epic vistas and slo-mo drifting required for validation of radness. The full… …
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Windy Winning At Pump Track Worlds Welly
Click or not: Windy Winning At Pump Track Worlds WellyBack to Back Winners Crowned in New Zealand and The Philippines This past weekend saw qualifiers for the Red Bull Pump Track World Championship take place in both Wellington, New Zealand and Manila, The Philippines. With 3 stops now complete, the world final is already shaping up to be an epic showdown as grass roots… …
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The Rocket Man Strikes: The Kim Jong Un-duro
Click or not: The Rocket Man Strikes: The Kim Jong Un-duroSatire, after all, is just comedy without any punchlines. But who exactly was the joke on at the Kim Jong Un-duro? Following in the succession of the Winston Peters Enduro First Enduro, the Donald Trump Freedom Enduro and the Tiger Woods Golf Enduro, the annual Wellington Mountain Bike Club event at Makara Peak in Wellington… …
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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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The Moment
Click or not: The MomentIt was when mountain biking was full of freshness and blind innovation, when bikes were for one for all terrain and riders were still concentrated on racing and going up was more important than going down. While the rest of the world was Lycra’d up and hitting heart rates, some renegades in British Columbia were… …
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Itinerology: The Workspace
Click or not: Itinerology: The WorkspaceSam Needham’s first instalment of his Itinerology series sets the bar pretty high. Ash Smith, the founder of the Trans Provence is the first subject under Sam’s very stylish microscope. …