Tag: Sequoia

  • Ridden: Specialized Sequoia Expert

    Ridden: Specialized Sequoia Expert

    When the Specialized Sequoia Expert arrived at Slap HQ, I wasn’t really harbouring any thoughts that it might be a bike that would replace riding two or three others. It’s not a road bike, it’s definitely not a mountain bike, but it’s both of those and more, admittedly in smaller portions of each of the…

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  • Day Trippers: Featherston Overnighter

    Day Trippers: Featherston Overnighter

    “Credit card bikepacking” is a term that I hadn’t heard or even knew existed until recently. In fact, bikepacking was only a word that was easily dismissed as something that other, more adventurous and/or hardy types did. Adding a shitload of weight to a bike and then pedalling off up some boring gravel road to…

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  • Landed: Specialized Sequoia Expert

    Landed: Specialized Sequoia Expert

    For years I’ve contemplated the question “if you could only own one bike, what would it be?” The answer to that question has changed as often as I’ve changed bikes, but usually it was a case of either mountain bike or road bike. Factors like whatever I was enjoying riding mosty at that point figured…

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  • Ride First, Bike Later

    Ride First, Bike Later

    The act of riding bikes seems to be heading in a direction it hasn’t been since, well, people started riding bikes. Is the ride––going places, seeing things, meeting people––taking back from the bicycle its rightful place as the single most important aspect of cycling? We think so, as do these switched on folk. Dirt, water, mountains, fire,…

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