Now normally, any mention of Cookies or cookie cutting, my mouth salivates and my overly enthusiastic physique has a little skip with delight. Sadly in this case, my stomach churns and my mind dreads what could have been to a good mate. To set the scene, last Sunday Luke, Brian…
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Ben Haselden
I'm an outdoor mad, adventure seeker who has ridden bikes, played with bikes, modified and fixed bikes. I've been around bikes since I was a child through racing, crashing and enjoying them.
Santa Cruz - 2018 Hightower LT - Ride review
Like most good rental bikes, they often come as sub par, rather decrepit previous years modeled, run of the mill low-end bikes. Given the calibre of riding in Squamish BC is anything but sub par, so too is the demo fleet of Corsa Cycles, located smack bang in the mecca…
Rolling Over Shit, since Ages ago.
It's not everyday that you call a relatively new bike a retro ride, but the Niner bikes ROS9, in it's now obsolescence is something of a retro, modern fusion masterpiece. Cast my riding life back a few years, well, yeap, maybe a few more..... ok, yeap!…
Beaver tails, Granite slabs and Ride BC
In an edition of Mountainbike action some decades ago when I was a pubescent teenager, I had a long lasting article about SORCA (Squamish Off-road Cycling association) stick in my mind. Squamish, essentially a small industry, nothing type town, had formed a group of some fairly passionate trail builders who…
Winter Outdoors - Key Fashion Tips
5 key items to enjoying winter riding and tramping: Finally, after a warm sun filled summer and luckily this year an Autumn to remember, you are more then likely looking down the barrel of a fully loaded, 5 month weather gun of doom in our varying New Zealand winter. But…
HT T1 Enduro Pedals - Ride Review
Having been a staunch Shimano SPD (Shimano Pedaling Dynamics) rider for well over a couple of decades, I've grown very fond of the easy, cheap and reliable system which has done me well. I have also scoffed at alternative brands over the years with expressions of what can…