By Lester Perry on Wednesday April 20 2011
Well done Pharell, you’ve managed to create an almost completely useless, overpriced fixed-gear bike but because it has your name ‘attached’ to it some people will buy anyway….. Don’t you realize hipsters are now riding cross bikes not fixed?! Details after the jump….. More ›
By Lester Perry on Monday April 18 2011
So unfortunately I didn’t make it out to Sea Otter this year (or any other year for that matter!) so we’ve got to ‘borrow’ content from around the interweb to keep y’all up to play. The vid above is from the Speed and Style Event… More ›
By Lester Perry on Friday April 15 2011
These days bike shops have to be innovative to stay ahead of the game and keep customers interested, and T White’s bikes continues to one-up most bike stores in this department. This time it’s with a fun little ad for their recently launched web store.… More ›
By Lester Perry on Thursday April 14 2011 in Exclusives, Frankly Thursday
Paul Angus, aka Pang, hit New Zealand shores way back in about 2004 for the first time, back when he was a young downhill racer with long locks, an Orange bike and an appetite for destruction! Well, time ticks by and since then he’s cut… More ›
By Lester Perry on Wednesday April 13 2011
Super slammer of a stupendous BMX highlight flick from The Farm Jam. Sweet. More ›
By Lester Perry
You may (maybe not) have noticed a lack of posts from me last week. Well I was off tripping around the South Island, with no bike! Weird, I know! Well now back to normal programming as of now (between moving house this week!) Unless you… More ›
By Lester Perry on Friday April 1 2011
The dudes over at Gravity have just posted a full gallery from their Alaska trip a few months back. Waddayaknow the shot above of Kelly McGazza which graces the current issue of SPOKE was shot while on that trip and is a whole lot bigger… More ›
By Lester Perry on Thursday March 31 2011
Those crazy cats at Zerode Bikes just dropped the above video, it expands a bit more on the article we published about them in the latest SPOKE magazine. Make sure you check out their website and Facebook to keep up with the play. More ›
By Lester Perry
News just in from our favorite energy drink company- they’ve added ex-mountainbiker turned fixed gear legend and all round nice lass Jenna MakGill to their roster of sponsored athletes! More ›
By Lester Perry in Exclusives, Frankly Thursday
Justin Leov, hmmm where do I begin? I’ve known Justin for quite a number of years and have been one of the many people fortunate enough to be recipients of the Leov family hospitality. While the Leov clan were living in Blenhiem (before the move… More ›
By Lester Perry
Yeti bikes just dished out this sweet little vid put together by World Cup team member Joey Schusler of a look through their US factory. COOL. After watching this vid, go to the Yeti Website and check out their 2011 team page, there’s some killer… More ›
By Lester Perry
Jono from Local Knowledge TV shot us through this chilled little vid from the ever expanding trails in Riverhead, Auckland. Social pump-track sessions every Thursday evening at the WCRC (we’re not sure what that is though) Compound. More ›
By Lester Perry on Tuesday March 29 2011
This just in from the Hamilton Riders Collective: “Things have been kicking off a little bit with the HRC crew seeing as summer is drawing to a rapid close, and the guys have been super keen to ride lately in order to make the most… More ›
By Lester Perry
MTBNZ just dropped the first selection (final team named July 12th) for the MTB Worlds later this year. Wide Open team members Samara Sheppard (u23 XC) and Jay Barrett (u19 DH- pictured above) are in the list. Check out the full list after the jump…. More ›
By Lester Perry
The HRC (Hamilton Riders Collective) have been running low key events in Hamilton over the last 10 weeks or so, everything from short course downhills to the infamous ‘dick-athalon’ and last week was their final grass slalom for the season. SPOKE contributor Ryan McCrae rolled… More ›