We have just got more stock of our super popular Spoke Spare Tube T-Shirt over in the Spoke shop now. It’s by the super talented Brendan van den Bosch and they are selling quick so if you want to be one of the first to… More ›
How’s this, so I had the latest issue of Dirt Rag but I hadn’t finished reading it until today, and discovered a very interesting ad for GT bikes. This one is for all those haters over on Spoke’s Facebook page that weren’t feeling the Mule… More ›
I popped into KRD Imports the other day with the sole purpose of photographing a stack of WTB tyres for an upcoming subscription giveaway and managed to get sidetracked checking out a few of the newer arrivals to their warehouse. First up is the new… More ›
“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 ›
Troy Lee’s (re)entry into the open face helmet market has been a long time coming. Their new A1 Cyclops helmet has been three years in design and thank goodness that wasn’t for nought! Al and Rick from the Troy Lee distributors both showed up the… More ›
Spoke 51 is here, and we’ve shaken off the 50th birthday hangover with a great issue. Conor Macfarlane nabs the cover and a rad feature story. A couple of German tourists ditch the trailers to sample the best of Kiwi singletrack. The Wide Open crew… More ›
Last year Spoke was invited to hop over the ditch and check out the Melrose Fat Tyre Festival as well as some pretty rad South Australia riding. Well they loved us so much they’ve invited us back for a second year. If it was just… More ›
Spoke’s resident food maestro (maestress?) Sarah Wadsworth was the subject of Frankly Thursday a few weeks back, but now she’s stepped away from the oven and gets behind the keyboard to bring us a look at US import Alex McAndrew. He’s been hanging out in… More ›
It’s taken us a while but we finally have the Queenstown Mountain Bike Club’s Dirt is the New Snow T- Shirts in stock. Depending on how theses ones sell we may offer more colours but for now it’s the maroon raglan or the fluoro green… More ›
Here at Spoke we love Conor. In a manly kind way. The dude is just so nice, you’ll never here him speak ill of anyone, and who else would lend you a car with a morning’s notice to drive to Alexandra? Then when you throw… More ›
The Southland Times and news website stuff.co.nz today posted up a story outlining briefly that DOC was considering opening up sections of the Kepler and Hollyford Tracks to mountain bikes (where it’s currently banned). Below is the story from Stuff, you should head to the… More ›
We did post this up the other day but since then we’ve sold out of our first shipment of Mucky Nutz bendable lightweight fenders. Well we just got a whole shedload more and they’re in the webshop here now. If they sell like the first… More ›
A few weeks back some of you may have noticed a blurry photo that we posted to Facebook and Instagram of a pair of grips. Well the embargo on these guys lifts this morning so I can now tell you about Easton’s new carbon friendly… More ›
Yup today is the day! I’ve just been informed that Easton’s New Zealand distributor has received their shipment of Easton’s M1 upgrade kits and they should be available at your local Easton dealer from today onwards for FREE. If you didn’t pay attention when we… More ›
A few days ago we brought you news of Teva’s new Pivot all-mountain clipless shoe. Well I’ve been ogling them and enjoying the new-shoe smell for two days now, and have just mounted them up for a first spin. But as it’s pouring with rain,… More ›
When the Blackburn distributor sent this Blackburn VIP SL Ride Wallet down for issue 51′s product pages, well, I didn’t send it back. The thing is so rad, cheap and practical! Out of the bag and on the computer screen this waterproof smartphone pouch makes… More ›
Who says you have to go to the big cities and the snooty galleries to look at art? Well we haven’t been near a big city or a snooty gallery for months now, but we’ve been deep in the mountains on overnight outback rides and… More ›
47 entries already and holy shitballs what a stacked field. Byron Scott’s there, as is Sam Shaw, Nick Lambert, Lester Perry, Hayden Lee, Tom Adams and Tom Holland. And who knows, maybe there’s someone on the list I don’t know about. Picking a name at… More ›
When the production studio that produces all of SRAM’s in-house movies loaded up the videos for these new wheels yesterday they accidentally left them public (just for 20 minutes), giving us here at Spoke a little preview of what was going to be released… well,… More ›
Paul Larkin has been around the race scene more than most, and he’s seen his fair share of bureaucracy in action. So what does he really think of the UCI’s latest goings on? Foreword: This article is not about BikeNZ / MTBNZ, but rather… More ›