Throughout the biking ages, carbon has been one of the biggest evolving technologies and materials that’s often been dubbed plastic fantastic. From minor components, to butted frame tubing and now complete bikes, the evolution of carbon has meant one primary thing, a lite weight stiffness. With that, the ever…
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Orbea Rallon - Enduralin Ride Review
Now it's no secret that Orbea's R5 Rallon is a class beating, powerhouse bike in the enduro market. Having taken top spots in a few unofficial and official shootouts across various media streams it stood out as being the best, but the fact still remained, how does it really ride?…
Cookie Cutters - Get a Decent Grip.
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…
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! 1995! I'd just taken…
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…
Fuel for ya Tank
Now when anyone mentions a wilderness overnighter, two things spring to mind for me. Fun and sub-par, freeze dried meals.... If you're anything like me (old and fat with an insatiable appetite for food), food is a massive part about life in general but more so when you really need…
A belt is just a belt, right?
Well, technically, yes, a belt is just a belt... But what if I told you this was like no other belt you've ever owned? Read on.... After a brief googling of looking for a particular bike part completely unrelated to the holding of ones trousers up above ones awfully rounded…
The Oval Revolution
Every now and then something grabs your attention in the media and your ears prick up like a Meerkat in the desert. Instantly, (showing my age here) you can't help but think of another near disaster that was, the oval Biopace system. For those left wondering what that was, Biopace…
New Kid On The Block
In a far cry from the roots of their weapons manufacturing in Spain, Orbea continue to dazzle the worlds leading bike media outlets with models sought after by us Kiwi Mortals. With no dealership or importer (until now), us Kiwis have been faced with watching and reading about bikes we…
Trail Karma - Don't Knock It Til You Try It
"I really don't like the way that trail rides in places. Whoever built it really doesn't get how I like to take corners. Someone needs to tell the builder to change it or we'll go somewhere else" or "that trail really could do with a trim"......... How many times in…