Tag: New Zealand
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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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Time For Another Big Bike Film Night
Click or not: Time For Another Big Bike Film NightWho doesn’t love a good cycling film? We do, so it’s always an exciting time when the Big Bike Film Night rolls around. This will be the fourth edition, and as usual the selection is vast and filled with variety that caters to just about any type of cycling fan. If it is isn’t coming… …
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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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Shot: Moving Targets
Click or not: Shot: Moving TargetsShooting bicycle racing––or any moving subject––isn’t always easy, but if you are also in motion at the time it becomes a throw of the dice as to whether there will be any results from the flurry of shutter activity. Throw in a dirty windscreen and 15 or more cars between you and the action and… …
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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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The Art Of Foley
Click or not: The Art Of Foley Mountain biking can teach you a lot of things; balance, strength, skill, that fluoro clothes are wrong. But this video is a lesson in Foley Art, the method of using everyday objects to create soundtracks and effects for moving pictures. There you go, we’ve all learned something today. If you, like me, appreciate the… …