Tag: Road Trip

  • Ty Tuesdays: Freedom Band Live @ The Yard, Raglan

    Ty Tuesdays: Freedom Band Live @ The Yard, Raglan

    Freedom. It’s good for me, but not for you. That’s been the attitude of the inhabitants of this country (and the world) for the last, oh, three or so years, coincidentally. “You can have your freedom, but only if you do as you’re told.” The right to have autonomy over ourselves is now controlled by…

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  • Scrots On Tour

    Scrots On Tour

    Dickhead Revelry in the 2017 NZ CX Season What is Scrot? Anatomically, a reasonably easy question. Who is Scrot? More difficult. Why Scrot? Bullseye. Scrottage is finding the greasy fringe and miring yourself in it- and scrotteurs are the slippery, addled champions of it all. In a world of high gloss adventure media that seems…

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  • Gorging Yourself Part 2

    Gorging Yourself Part 2

    Roads are in thin, smooth scabs in compliant earth. Suture-work fencing is pulling the surfaces inwards. Chemistry-set soil leachate agitates raindrops. The hillside scars with exposure burns. Liquid ghosts vapourise, implode and cough rearwards, propelling two boys in a station wagon, wishing for the best. The air makes eternal sounds, scattering. The city is serviced…

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  • South By South Quest

    South By South Quest

    French globetrotter, artist, surfer and rider sounds like the dream job description, right? Tito Tomasi lives them all, and hasn’t worked a day in his life! He graced our shores over summer, or should that be our shores (and mountains, lakes, parks) graced him, and conspired in the most spectacular way to produce the latest…

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  • Gorging Yourself Part 1

    Gorging Yourself Part 1

    In a shit three-part series, Beng Kidney examines the subtle nuances of a trio of rude boys visiting Wairoa Gorge. I’d started to forget the association between mountain biking and fun when Lindup whispered to me with his wet mouth while stroking his exposed and furry paunch that he was going to an open day at…

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