Long Term Blur Life
I think to properly do a bike review you need discipline, very good riding skills and an ability to translate what the bike is doing into terms relevant to the audience.
I possess none of those qualities, wh...
Stig d’Italia 2019
Well, it's only taken me year to get this repressed content out, yes, it's been sitting in the ADHD space that is my mind for that long. It's been prompted to now see the light of day because, as I type this, C...
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 ...
HapTPy Anniversary
Chances are you're currently reading this during either a lock down, the slight loosening of a lock down, or in a country with a hardcore border closure still in effect.
Given this, it makes it seem all the ...
Dirty first look – Santa Cruz Tallboy 4
Someone asked me recently if I thought they should proceed with the acquisition of a additional new Mountain Bike to fill a slightly different capability category than the bike they already had on hand... Given...
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...
1,000 Mega Kilometers – The Megatron Rant
When I first repatriated to NZ in 2017, I was mildly bemused to learn that the number 1 selling vehicle, of any description was... The Ford Ranger. For those that aren't car enthusiasts, it's essentially an ove...
The Long Lost Aosta file
Can you remember every section of trail you've ever ridden? Or every metre of an HC climb? Or every corrugation of a huge gravel mission? Or every amazing vista and clearing you stopped in? The ones where your ...
TasMANIA Part 2 – Demolition Derby
Editorial note - Part 2 of TasMANIA began as a draft long before the world started to get rat fucked by Cuntvid19, the only upside of being locked down for the next 4 weeks is that it's afforded a rare window t...
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...