“Enduro”. It’s the buzzword that’s taken the world by storm in the last 12 months, even though it’s essentially what we’ve all been doing with our mates for years—cruising uphill and shredding back down. The main difference between what we all do and what we… More ›
The Trans-Provence MTB race has become the definitive ‘all-mountain’ mountain bike event: six days, 280km, 9000m elevation gain, 14000m descending with 23 timed singletrack descent stages. Sounds like fun right? Traditionally, enduro racing has been held on ‘blind’ tracks, with no practice held, and course… More ›
Full name? The whole shebang? It’s Rosara Ann Beetham Joseph How old are you? 31 Where are you currently based? Wellington What do you like about living where you do? Lots. I like that Wellington is such a beautiful city, surrounded by green hills and… More ›
I don’t know Ash Smith from a bar of soap, never met him, haven’t spoken to anyone who has, but I do know he’s a genuine good guy, and he has sculpted his own little piece of ‘the dream’ on the other side of the… More ›
Nine months is both a long time and a short time. On one side of the coin, if you’re recently pregnant or have a pregnant wife, girlfriend or secret lover, then nine months will fly by in a whirlwind of nervous excitement, logistical planning, learning… More ›
The Rotorua crew are throwing a bit of a race to raise some coin for the James Dodds Memorial Fund. If you’re within driving distance, be there! More ›
What a day, what a celebration! On Thursday the wider MTB community, MX crew, friends and family of James ‘Dodzy’ Dodds gathered in Rotorua to celebrate the life of a Legend. At 10am 100+ riders gathered at the Long Mile Road Gate and after some words… More ›
It’s not really breaking news as we’ve reported it before and interviewed Brook about it, but here’s his first of three Red Bull edits! More ›
Earlier this week I put the finishing touches on an upcoming profile on Conor MacFarlane for Spoke Magazine, until that drops, above is a look at his ’2010 Promo’. Hammers. More ›
A couple of weeks back we got wind that One Square Meal (OSM, the popular food bars made by Cookie Time) were teaming up with Vertigo bike shop in Queenstown to bring the latest in MTB downhill tech (Zerode) to Queenstown MTB Club members. The… More ›
‘Super D’ style races are the future, just ask anyone who turned up to race Sunday’s Triple Crown event in Rotorua. Full blown XC guys went head to head against full blown DH dudes and full time trail riders over three solid courses. Bikes ranged… More ›
I haven’t even watched this entirely but just wanted to get it online before Caleb did! Sure it’s worth a watch though as Santa Cruz’s Syndicate team hits the South African World Cup round. More ›
It’s Super D season, with Queenstown’s edition last weekend won by Kurt Lancaster, this week’s being ‘Codgers’ in Nelson where Kieran Bennett took the win, then this coming weekend the Rotorua Triple Crown kicks off. Let’s hope this trend continues! Codgers write up (from Nelsonmountainbikeclub.org.nz)… More ›
I bumped into Team Lapierre’s Sam Blenkinsop yesterday in Rotorua which reminded me I’d seen this vid and it needed posting. A couple of hours later I was home and low and behold, an email from Sam’s teammate Cameron Cole was top of the list,… More ›
Caleb’s tripping around the North of the North at the moment (well, Auckland) and this morning he popped by to see the folks at Avanti and ABD. The first news of interest is that SPOKE‘s good buddy Paul Langlands is teaming up with ABD to… More ›
Trials and street guru (and Red Bull Mini Drome London winner) Chris Akrigg had a pretty gnarly off yesterday. “So yeah, shit has hit the fan. Fell off a cliff yesterday and broke my leg and wrist.” Get well soon! Hopefully someone was there with… More ›
A few things surprised me on this Friday morning: 1) Matt Scoles can use a computer; 2) he managed to set up a blog; and 3) he can write! Scolsey penned (well, typed) an update about his experiences in South Africa at Round 1 of… More ›
Ladies and Gents – Simon Bannister…… More ›
So a few months back at the Single Speed Worlds in Rotorua Caleb was all stoked on his new helmet, the Giro Xar in metallic orange (which he wrote about HERE). Heaps of people were stoked on it too and dug the colour, unfortunately Worralls… More ›
Somehow I let this clip slide right through my fingers. Trek World Racing in Iberia, looks like good times. No doubt the rest of their series ‘In Pursuit’ will follow as the World Cup season unfolds. I guess we’ll see Round 1 from South Africa… More ›