It’s a high-flying world, this mountain bike business. Schmoozing with celebrities in the plushest venues, getting plied with the finest aperitifs and delicious hors d’ouvres, while getting to see the coolest new products long before the masses do. Well, okay, a couple of Stellas and… More ›
‘Living the dream’ is something we all aspire to, yet few achieve. Riding bikes all day, never training, drinking coffee and beer, eating burgers, not shaving, and picking up a pay cheque for it sounds too good to be true. Most of us will never get… More ›
Pivot have released some sneak pics of their Mach 5.7 Carbon prototype, but apparently production models are not too far away at all. Same DW Link goodness wrapped in a 5lb composite frame with RP23 shock. More pics and info at Revolution’s site… More ›
We’ve been giving the Yeti SB66 a good flogging over the last couple of weeks, all in the name of research of course. She’s been passed around between the testers like a wine cask at a teenage campfire, and I got to have my turn… More ›
Having had my 29er interest piqued and the subsequent love affair with the big wheelers, I was more than a little excited to be able to ride the Turner Sultan. The hype surrounding Dave Turner’s bikes was well evident to me, mainly through some of… More ›
Defending World Champ and SPOKE cohort “Rad” Ross Schnell sent us this sneak peak of his new weapon for the SSWC in Vegas next weekend. It’s a custom built Trek Top Fuel SS, with one-off paint job and a top tube pad harking back to… More ›
So Caleb was hating on 29ers, then rode one and now can’t (or won’t) shut up about how good the one he rode was. And it was the GT Sensor that made him gush. I must admit, my time on the big wheels has been… More ›
Thursday wasn’t a great day if you are German. Their football team was dumped out of the World Cup by the Spaniards, prompting some to declare that they were actually Swiss and not German at all. At least that was the defence of Scott Bikes’… More ›
Crank Brothers has just released a whole slew of new products at Sea Otter in Monterey, California, and we can tell you that there is some pretty sweet gear in the lineup. How do we know? More ›
Who the hell is Eben Weiss? Well, if you’re a regular reader of the wittiest, most insightful and downright awesome cycling blog floating atop a sea of mundanity, you may know him better as the Bike Snob. After three years of somehow maintaining anonymity, there is… More ›
Short-changed riders wait for the re-start of the Whaka ’70ish’ It’s 2pm, and instead of finishing the Whaka 100, I’m on my third beer and sitting in a spa. Why? More ›
World Singlespeed Champion, World All-Mountain Champion and all-round nice guy ‘Rad’ Ross Schnell could be the most complete mountain biker since Johnny T. So what does a man with mad skills and a multitude of bikes to choose from like to ride the most? More ›
‘Rad’ Ross Schnell and Heather Irmiger got inked up as the winners of the 2009 Singlespeed World Championships in Durango, Colorado over the weekend. Ross could be heading down here for a bit of a mission with SPOKE in 2010, and now has another reason… More ›
SPOKE has secured the first SRAM XX groupset up for test in New Zealand, and will have a full rundown in the next issue, out very soon. We’ll be giving it its first shakedown on Sunday at the PNP race at Wainuiomata. More ›
One thing we learnt from the trip to Auckland for the Avanti/Specialized launch this week; NEVER fly JetStar, unless you like sitting in airports for hours on end. The other thing was, there are heaps of cool new bikes from the Big S, and Avanti. More ›