Tag: trail bike
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Ridden: The Rocky Mountain Instinct 950 MSL Double Review
Click or not: Ridden: The Rocky Mountain Instinct 950 MSL Double ReviewRocky Mountain Bicycles have a heritage that is steeped in Canadian coolness. With a new NZ distributor they are making an impact with some dialled bikes that are worthy contenders in the higher-end of the trail bike and all-mountain markets. Two of our testers with disparate riding styles, Kah Chan and Sasha Smith spent a good… …
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New Tracer Gets Intenser
Click or not: New Tracer Gets IntenserIntense Cycles never rest on their laurels, with new bikes and tweaks to their range continuing to forge their position as an industry innovator. The latest Tracer has just been dropped and it’s a beast, with more travel and a more aggressive stance placing it firmly at the rowdier end of the trail bike spectrum.… …
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A Fine Cut Of Jibberish
Click or not: A Fine Cut Of JibberishI tried to put together a droll introduction for this video, maybe introduce a salient analogy here or a risible pun there but words seem all but redundant this week. So here’s a fun distraction from the current news cycle, a completely different kind of gibberish to what we’ve been inundated with. Treat each other… …
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Landed: Rocky Mountain Instinct 950 MSL
Click or not: Landed: Rocky Mountain Instinct 950 MSLRocky Mountain is as Canadian as maple syrup, ice hockey and good buds, with a reputation for top-end bikes built to take on the burly tech terrain of the North Shore through to the hucks and high-speeds of Whistler. They have had a less than prominent profile in New Zealand, but with a new distributor,… …
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Stepping On It At Minefield
Click or not: Stepping On It At MinefieldFlaunting more flow than a Biggie verse, Hawkes Bay’s latest trail Minefield looks silky smooth under the assured tyres of Brook Macdonald and Charlie Makea. There are certainly enough features to keep most of us on our toes however. In between World Cup Downhill races Brook Macdonald is back at home in Napier training and… …
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Scottland [sic]
Click or not: Scottland [sic]It’s always curiously incongruous, setting footage of cyclists riding expensive and meticulously refined pieces of engineering to the contrived earnestness of pop-folk music. It seems that somewhere in the past five years the saccharine crooning of sandal toting beard brewers became synonymous with the versatility of the modern trail bike. Irony aside, I’ll buy whatever… …