Tag: USA

  • Laconic LA

    Laconic LA

    Taylor Phinney is so laid back it’s a wonder he doesn’t fall asleep as he takes a two-wheeled tour of Los Angeles’ gritty city streets and dirty (nicer) hills.

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  • Painting By Numbers

    Painting By Numbers

    16 ounces. Or 473 mls. That’s your regular latte in the US of A. You can forget ordering a piccolo in the MidWest. Points. Placings. Grid positions. It’s a numbers game and this close to the mega business end of racing you can overlook the bigger picture stuff if you get too bogged down in…

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  • Lion & Paeroa

    Lion & Paeroa

    Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. Population 4,138. A similar size to Paeroa without the world-famous-in-New Zealand beverage and with bigger, closer neighbours. We’re not the first Kiwi cyclists to race in this neck of the woods. Home to Trexlertown velodrome, this spot is more often frequented by our fixed wheel cousins with a penchant for turning left. However, this…

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  • Hunters: Gustavo’s Garage

    Hunters: Gustavo’s Garage

     Deux North’s Hunters series kicks off with a tour around the LA digs of Gustavo Sanchez, a purveyor of style on two wheels of both the rumbling and quiet kinds.

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  • Outskirts: Route 66

    Outskirts: Route 66

    If you’ve had the pleasure of watching any of the Thereabouts films, you’ll know the inspiration for what makes them tick; getting out on the bike with good friends, amplified by crazy massive distances, in places that seem less than ideal or even hospitable for cycling. Outskirts takes Gus Morton’s latest crew across America on…

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  • Jetlag Induced Musings Of ‘Cross

    Jetlag Induced Musings Of ‘Cross

    Fresh off the plane from my recent ORL-LAX-AKL-WEL haul and countering jetlag like a badass. The return leg was less painful than the outbound equivalent via Houston, which was peppered with Texan security life experiences and washed down with a midnight drive from the Big Apple to upstate New York landing us in our final…

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  • XPDTN3 Goes Round The Lake

    XPDTN3 Goes Round The Lake

    The trails around Lake Tahoe in California are more commonly tackled on mountain bikes these days, but the three-day adventurers from XPDTN3 don’t care much for doing things by the book. They tackled the complete Tahoe Rim Trail on their rigid, fully-loaded gravel bikes and harked back to the days when bikes were simpler and…

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  • Belgian Waffle Ride

    Belgian Waffle Ride

    There’s never enough Belgium around here, even when the elements of said Belgianity are in the States. The Belgian Waffle Ride is our kind of event, long, hot, dirty, roady, singletracky, gravelly, beery and booby. It attracts the big hitters and an even bigger field of fun and pain seekers, hitting them back with over 230km…

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