Generally, when you place the words, Boys Trip and Mountain Biking Weekend together and throw in the country's worst snow event in years, you don't usually come out with an equation anywhere near luxurious or well organised. More often then not it's a shambles, involves tonnes of takeaways, a smelly…
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The French Redhead - Lapierre Edge 327+
It's not often you find a red headed, French, Plus sized model gracing the cover of Vogue Paris magazine as the two aren't always the best fit for such a magazine. This however, may be the straw that breaks the camels back with slender low lines, curves in places that…
Tree Trunk Gorge - Ride Review
More often then not, road trips which involve a weekend of MTB'ing always need that, just one more trail to completely satisfy that weekend splurge. Tree Trunk Gorge, is located an hour south of Taupo in the Kaimanawa Forest park and can be accessed by either the Northern or Southern…
16 Niner - RIP9 Carbon - Trail Bike Review
Until recently, I had always found the trail market as being one of those, well, how do you put it. "Open to interpretation" type markets. Every manufacturer seemed to have a different take on what they classed as trail worthy. The inclusions of Enduro bikes were flooding the markets and…
Waitangi MTB Park - Zone 3 Ride Review
After an epic opening to the park in 2016 and bumper summer season of riding, the highly anticipated zone 3 was set to add yet another dimension of climbing, flow and a fix for MTB junkies, newbie's and families. Following on from our Zone 2 ride review earlier this year,…
The Wheel Truth - Size Matters
Through the ages, wheel sizes have always been a hot topic. bigger, smaller, wider, skinnier, but in recent years the hotly debated wheel size has always been a bone of contention in many riding circles and groups with one Wise rider often showering superiority, on their opinions at least. Now…
A Song to Send us Off - 2017 Giant Anthem 1 - Ride Review
Too often we associate the word Anthem with a somber hymn sung mellowly on different occasions. But the Anthems we're conditioned to shouldn't always be associated with a dull enthusiasm, patriotism or religious tune and thankfully Giant Bikes have steered their version of an anthem to a global scale of…
Ruapehu Express - The Movie
Having raced, well, Ahem! Ridden in the first running of the Ruapehu express my enthusiasm was still at an all time high so I was eager to see if the event would out perform its virgin attempt. More often than not, we see new events come and go with relative…
Waitangi Mountain Bike Park - Ride Review
Being based in Northland, the single track options are generally a lot more narrower, rugged and bare boned then what our more southern compatriots are spoilt by so, it's fair to say the inclusion of the Southstar trails built, Focus Paihia Trust funded and driven Mountain Bike Park was not…
Finding the wholly Trail
Now my idea of the holy grail or in this case, the wholly Trail, is not based on strava attempts, how many Instagram '#shred' hashtags it's received or how many people have created one off, grainy 'sick' YouTube edits. It's a lot more simple for me. It's how much…
Whaka 100 - A stab in the dark - Preamble.
Having been a regular competitor of the Huka Challenge, a side shoot to the awkwardly excessive, lycra clad festival that forms the world famous Lake Taupo challenge. I've found myself questioning just how good this (MTB) event was. I'm not sure weather it was a overly crowded Taupo with narrow…
Kids Can Too
Picture this, you're 22, you have a relatively well paid semi-successful career and a fantastic girlfriend, a cheap A to B Toyota hilux, as much fishing, diving and adventure gear as you can comfortably afford. A bike that's worth more then your trusty hilux and somewhere in that mix is…