Join us for an inside look at freeride mountain bike star Brandon Semenuk and his crew as we follow them on the road from World Tour Competitions to the journey back home in the coastal mountains of Canada. In this premiere episode we check out… More ›
Specialized (and Victor Lucas) have just posted up a video showcasing the La Bresse XCO course that claimed both Rosara and Karen in the weekend. This clip gives us a pretty damn good look at the just how hard the course was, and in my… More ›
RockShox have just released this little video that gives an insight into what goes down when they are custom tuning a shock for a specific bike in a company’s range (in this case Rocky Mountain). More ›
One year ago I shattered my leg. The last twelve months have been hard work but I feel like it’s finally starting to pay off. I’m back on my bike having fun and I’m loving it… More ›
How would you feel if your summer was taken away from you? Fascinated by the emotions that someone would experience having their main focus for the summer suddenly ripped away from them, Dan Barham will spend the next five months following various riders, who for… More ›
A perilous course proved the undoing of much of the field including New Zealand’s Karen Hanlen in the fourth round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in France today. The Whakatane rider dropped out on the second of six laps in a race that… More ›
New Zealand mountain biker Samara Sheppard produced a remarkable charge on the final lap to earn a podium finish in the fourth round of the UCI World Cup in France on Saturday (NZ time). The 22 year old was still in fifth place halfway through… More ›
Because you visit the Spoke magazine website, by default our friends are your friends. Sometimes being friends with our friends has benefits, like when they have crazy sales and you get to save a tonne on Fox and Unit stuff (and some other moto gear… More ›
Now, I’m not saying the new Saint groupset isn’t good, but this video is kinda funny. Shimano wanted to capture the first impressions of its SPONSORED teams at Sea Otter. No one got preferential treatment; Shimano delivered boxes of goodness to Yeti, Santa Cruz and… More ›
If the world of mountain bike websites were like the world of Thomas the Tank Engine, Pink Bike would be Gordon (scroll down to the persona bit) but it seems of late NSMB has taken the title of Thomas, the little website that could. If… More ›
Damian Stones and Reon Boe spent a week in sunny Rarangi (the first left turn out of Picton) not long ago and banged out this damn sweet looking pump track. I can’t think of a better place than Rarangi to build a pump track; after… More ›
We have a secondary school student doing work experience for us at the moment. Yesterday I had a bit of a brainwave when trying to think of things for him to do and came up with the idea of finally putting all the past Spoke… More ›
When Emma (Spoke founder and its founding designer) and I went to the Queenstown Bike Festival a few weeks back we opted not to take a bike for her as the Foes distributor had mentioned having a medium bike available. He didn’t say what it… More ›
It couldn’t really get any better could it, Steve Peat killing it on a Tallboy with Isle of Man legend Guy Martin in tow. More ›
I’ve been waiting for this video for a while now. It’s the video of the Easton trip that Spoke guided and it’s pretty fricken choice (the Coastal Crew put it together!). You’ll be able to read about it in issue 47 of Spoke due mid… More ›