Sifters story. You can feel the grit in your eyes....
http://sifter-writes-bikes.blogspot.com/2011/03/karapoti-2011.html
Lynskey, the diary of a retro singlespeeder.
Really good if you want to know what it was like at the pointy end of the SS league. A good ripping yarn.
http://moon-rambler.blogspot.com/2011/03/hard-work-at-karapoti.html
Oli's photo-essay....
Monday, March 21, 2011
Undie 500 - part 3
The undie 500 concept comes from a guy I met at my brother in law's in Nelson, he was into vintage moto-cross, and these people he knew were doing a "fire-roads" kind of a trek on these old motorbikes. They had to be worth under $500 though. It seemed like a lot of low-key...
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Undie 500 - part 2
A new fork with canti bosses on it. Courtesy of Bruce at Adventure Cycles in Auckland. $ 45. I have some old vee brakes lying around too. Ex Kashi I think....
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Undie 500 - part 1
Goal: to build a fun dunger out of old stuff lying about for under $500. This frame was from skip outside lower hutt Avanti shop some years back. Old campy cranks thrown out by grass hopper.
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Sunday, March 06, 2011
Karapoti 2011
Well, the Karapoti pulled its usual stunt, with weeks of very dry weather in the lead-up, and the usual turn for the worse in the last week. Fortunately mud is to Karapoti as ice is to eskimo's and the mud on tap on saturday was in one of its better forms. Wet and thin! As...
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