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?…
Bike packing - It's not as bad as it sounds
So you want to go bike packing?Great!What's that? You don't want to buy a steel rigid bike and go slowly? Yeah, us neither!So this little list of gear is a beginners guide to doing a little bike packing with the luxury of staying in a well prepared…
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…