I got out on my road bike before work yesterday, but by golly it felt horrible compared to my Karate Monkey. Tiny carbon handlebars with negligible brakes. I was buzzed though when a flock of about 7 Rosellas flew directly over my head. Better than the Coach Track Magpie who must have had a crack at me 8 times in about 800 metres a week back. Then...
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Tour Te Waipounamu bikepacking race
The Tour Te Waipounamu bikepacking race was held in Aotearoa New Zealand, starting on February 14th 2021, it covered 1300 kilometres of rugged back country.
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the World's fastest Karate Monkey
My long running fascination with the adaptability of the Surly Karate Monkey reared its head again recently
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A hidden epidemic
Lets talk about head injuries.
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OPEN U.P. and say aaaaaaaaaah! - 6 monthly check-up
I suspect it's no coincidence that OPEN make bicycles with model names like OPEN UP and OPEN WIDE. If this is not a clever subliminal marketing attempt at the well-healed "dentist" portion of the bicycle market, then I don't know what is.
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- Sepp Hribar
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- stealthbags
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- steel is real
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- Steve Scott
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- Susie Wood
- Sweet Acres Drive
- TA
- Takaka Hill
- tandem
- tbi
- Te Tawhio o Whanganui
- test aero helmet
- Thames
- The Competitor Radio
- The Flight of the Conchords
- The humans are dead
- through axel conversion
- tieke
- Time trial
- Time trial TT pacing liverton road WVCC
- time trialling
- tmi
- tour aotearoa
- tour de gravel
- Tour de Vineyards Nelson 2009
- tour divide
- Tour Te Waipounamu
- touraotearoa
- tourtewaipounamu
- Towai track
- track masters wotrld champs
- Track nationals New Zealand Invercargill Velodrome
- track wheels
- tracker
- tracks.org.nz
- traumatic brain injury
- triathlon
- trispoke
- Tune
- tune crank big foot kurbel
- Tune kong hub
- tune.de
- Tunnel Gulley
- Upper Hutt
- urbangrinduro
- URL Aerodynamic protocols testing with power velodrome
- USADA
- usenet
- vegan
- velodrome testing
- Vintage bicycle
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- Wadestown
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- Wainuiomata trail park
- Wainuiomata Trail Project
- Wainuomata Rata Track
- Waipiata
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- Waspdale
- wayne mcdonald
- weight weenie lighting
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