Tag: Style

  • Insider Rides: Hayden McCormick’s Team BridgeLane Cervelo R5

    Insider Rides: Hayden McCormick’s Team BridgeLane Cervelo R5

    Hayden’s a dude. Just the right amount of chilled and focused, while more than able to laugh at himself and twists and turns that his life throws at him. Currently racing in the Tour of Utah, we caught up with Hayden one summer afternoon in his Te Awamutu hometown, where he talked us through the…

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  • Read: Icons

    Read: Icons

    Yes, Wiggins is like marmite – you either like him or your hate him. But the one thing you can’t take away is that he gets it. The why. Co-written with historian Herbie Sykes, ‘Icons’ is a homage to the riders that for Wiggins have shaped cycle racing. You could liken it to a Desert…

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  • Light Wolf Portrait Series

    Light Wolf Portrait Series

     We just stumbled upon a series of film portraits on German wheelbuilder Light Wolf via the third instalment, so it’d be rude not to go back and track his progression from the first two films.

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  • Shot: Paris-Roubaix 2019

    Shot: Paris-Roubaix 2019

    Throw out all the superlatives you want, there’s just not enough words to portray Paris-Roubaix to a level anywhere near its reverential status among its suitors. See, even when trying not to, it makes you. It’s best left to the camera and a denizen who knows where to point it to relate one of the…

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  • Worn: fi’zi:k Tempo Powerstrap R5

    Worn: fi’zi:k Tempo Powerstrap R5

    Everything old is new again. What goes around, comes around. Retro is metro. All well-known proverbial catchphrases, except that last one which I just made up, I think. I hope. Because it suits the vibe of the new fi’zi:k Tempo Powerstrap R5 road cycling shoes perfectly. The Italian company’s latest offering takes some features from…

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  • Insider Rides: Backy’s Ritchey Outback

    Insider Rides: Backy’s Ritchey Outback

    Last week we shared some photos of a bright yellow Ritchey Outback on Instagram and our newsletter and I’ve had a lot of questions and comments on the bike so I thought I’d go into more detail about it. The bike belongs to Brent Backhouse, a graphic designer who does work for RocketEspresso and Eleven, and also…

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  • Insider Rides: Webster San

    Insider Rides: Webster San

    For this instalment of Insider Rides Sam Webster talks us through his bespoke Miura-san Bridgestone after returning from his second trip on the prestigious Keirin circuit. “Everyone’s in the same boat, and that’s the one thing with Japanese Keirin, everyone has the same equipment within their strict specification, even your helmet and your jersey. So…

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  • Taking A Bite Outta The Big Apple

    Taking A Bite Outta The Big Apple

    One less car. There’s nothing like a few days in a big city to remind you of the efficiencies of the humble bicycle. Faster. Cheaper. Better scenery. New Yorkers are increasingly rollin’ from A to B in the Big Apple orchard. 450,000 daily bike rides may go some way to explain the insatiable appetite of…

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