The things you see on the side of the road...

Dan's Singular Peregrine Its been another busy month. Everyone is building new bikes. Ben has built up his Ibis Hakkalugi cross bike, waiting only on a head-set and Dan has finally finished his very classic looking Singular Peregrine. Marco and Dave have gone to XX1,...

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Flying Kite at Wainuiomata Trail Park

I have had an inkling to do Taupo's 85km Huka Challenge on my CX bike next weekend, but before I commit to it I thought I better get out onto the most similar terrain I can find on my own back yard. That would be the WTP (Wainuiomata Trail Park). Taking the "long way home" was...

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Weekend Warrior Spring update 2012

PNP MTB round 5 November 11th 2012 Its been a good while since I've posted on my blog so I have a bit of catching up to do. Last sunday we had the final race in the PNP MTB series calendar and it was a goodie. Very old school with a rocky downhill (Red Rocks) and a 25 minute...

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Hinakura 100 Mile Gravel Grinder

Mike tells us the way its gonna be. Mike at the Bike Hutt had been talking about a Gravel Grinder for a while now, and so it came to pass. The Hinakura 100 was a 160km ride on a secret course in the Wairarapa. As we had all guessed, it would take in the back end of Admirals...

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An alternative to the latest Iphone

World hunger, Global warming and conflict around the world took a back seat in the media this week, as the latest Iphone was launched. Should I replace my 2 year old entry level Android phone with a brand new Iphone that is still inferior to it in many ways ? Not that I was...

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Flying a kite.

This is my first real ride on my Singular Kite cyclo-cross bike. I am loving it so far. It was hard taking it out into the wild where it might get muddy, but that day had to come. Its all been good so far, except for one thing. The elephant in the "CX room ".Cantilever...

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To each his own

I see the endurance cycling guru and former Tour Divide record holder Jay Petervary  is having another crack at the event. It was pretty obvious by his comments during the official running of the event this year that he was "ill at ease" with the "purity" of how the...

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Welcome to WELLYMUD !

I was keen to see how I was going to go in my first CX of the year. I have been doing a fair bit of gnarly hill running, but have been not quite averaging 1 ride a week for the last couple of months. I remember last year at the end of the CX season feeling like I needed like...

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What happened to quality?

Dodgy Jugs, Sunbeam left, Russell Hobbs right In September 2010 I wrote a post about some of my favourite things; at the time one of these was the new Sunbeam Electric Kettle that replaced the dodgy Russell Hobbs Kettle that we persevered with for over a year. Less than...

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