Tag: old school
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Catalyst: Mud Cows
Click or not: Catalyst: Mud CowsNostalgia and sentimentality can be fraught with danger. Yes, things were always better in the good old days, every decade we look back and decide the last one was better than this one, but it wasn’t as good as the one before it… mountain bikers may be the most confused in this regard, as we… …
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Hüttcross Is For Pussies
Click or not: Hüttcross Is For PussiesIf you’re in the throes of getting mentally prepared for another soul- and drivetrain destroying foray into the perpetually-sodden recreation spaces of Upper Hutt this weekend, or a cold and frosty reception in the south or maybe even a warm, dry and dusty hitout in Aussie, you might want to channel the Spirit of Fortitude that… …
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Insider Rides: The Retro Rod
Click or not: Insider Rides: The Retro RodInsider Rides looks at the bikes that we ride, the bikes that industry insiders ride, that racers ride, and everyday folk ride. For this instalment, we take it back in time, way back to, oh, only 2009… have bikes really come this far in seven years? Rod Bardsley put together this Trek TopFuel with some bits from… …
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Deus Does l’Eroica
Click or not: Deus Does l’EroicaThe just completed Giro d’Italia is the most beautiful and often most suspenseful grand tour in the world. No small part of this is the fact that it’s in Italy, and while the French countryside is no slouch when it comes to looks, there’s an indefinable quality about the rolling hills and white roads that stimulates… …
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Deus Does The Klunk
Click or not: Deus Does The KlunkIt’s easy to lose sight of the simple act of riding a bike for the sole purpose of joy, buried as it is in a maelstrom of technology, hype and marketing. The pioneers of mountain biking, while they could be accused of utilising tech to improve their rides, were more concerned with the dynamic of the ride, the… …
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Silca Pumps Up The Volume
Click or not: Silca Pumps Up The VolumeLong before you could fit a pump in your pocket or have it hanging off the side of your bidon cage like a cigar-shaped tumour or silver turd, way before you could screw a tiny chuck on a Co2 canister and freeze your fingers to it on a winter’s day, the frame pump was the undisputed… …
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TPC Museum Series: Juli Furtado’s Yeti FRO
Click or not: TPC Museum Series: Juli Furtado’s Yeti FROWe love The Pros Closet‘s Museum Series here at ChainSlap. They have produced a series of videos looking at some of the coolest and most important bikes of the last 20 to 30 years, both mountain and road, which were ridden by significant Pros to some pretty big victories in the annals of racing. One… …