The Anatomy of Stoke
Race reports here tend to subject you the reader to a smorgasbord of differing flavours of near misses, failures, incidents, malaise or just straight up mid-pack mediocrity.
But this post, well, this one g...
2W Enduro Series – Dirty wrap up
After wiping off Rotorua's finest loam from the Megatower's VPP congregation point, it occurred to me that I haven't really done any form of race report for close to 18 months, a peculiar drought given how much...
Confronting the E-Lephants in the room – Part 4
The start of 2021 has seen me relishing a guilty Schadenfreude pleasure based on a simple phenomenon that people seem to be naturally flocking too.
It appears that large swathes of society were convinced tha...
Confronting the E-Lephants in the room – Part 3: Know thy E-nemy
As the world has grappled with one deadly pandemic this year, some of us have realised that it has given rise to a second pandEmic currently sweeping the globe. You may have yourself become infected, or know a ...
Feats of amazement
These days, the word 'Epic' is competing directly with 'Unprecedented' to see who can be the most exhausted and overused. When people start referring to their new glove purchase as 'epic', you know we've gone d...
Confronting the E-Lephants in the room: Part 2
Oddly, this unhinged, emergency edition rant has its genesis on a quiet and beautiful singletrack climb in Tasmania. When you're dropped off at the top of the shuttle road in Derby, Tasmania, at the Black Stump...
Karapoti Classic Race Report
It's 1996 and I'm sitting transfixed as rain lashes down on the windshield. This isn't drizzle, this is serious, here for the day, unrelenting, I want to fuck up your bike type rain. There's silence in Lizard's...
Enduro Race Reports – Speed Dating Edition
I'm the first to acknowledge that the last 6 months++ has seen you have to wade through not only a dwindling supply of posts, but the ones that have squeezed their way out the dirty tip have been gratuitously B...
All Hail Lord Megatron
So... Some rather large news dropped today and no, that's not a pun around reach or travel numbers. Yes, Santa Cruz have dropped what is best described as one of the most highly anticipated machines I can recal...
Stop Press – First look at the Dirty Blur
Surprise! The Froth Factory has been working a triple shift this week, which means that not only do you get assaulted by two posts in one week (virtually unheard of these days), but you also get coated in ridic...