Its seems that every other post these days is about Teva. The reason for this is pretty simple; they’re putting their money where their mouths are. What with amazing events, sponsoring core athletes and getting shoes on the feet of a bunch of New Zealand… More ›
Boneshaker 08 just arrived in the office (and in the shop to buy) and I can honestly say it’s the raddest issue to date. If you love cycling and haven’t checked it out you are doing yourself a disservice. Without a doubt it’s one of… More ›
So anyone that’s bumped into me recently has got a little sneak peak at Easton’s new Havoc bar. You see the reason Easton did that road trip in New Zealand a while back was to shoot and film for the launch, which is today. What’s… More ›
“Hey I’m having a ride/jam for turning 30. April 21st 12.00 to 5pm. It’s going to be rad. There’s some new additions to the yard, another double and extentions to the pump track. Anyway I thought I would make it open to all then have… More ›
The first New Zealand Teva Slopestyle is in the books and Aussie Benny Phillips took home the three grand prize money for first place! Conor Macfarlane took second, Elmo Cotter third, Lewis Jones fourth and Kelly McGarry rounded out the podium in fifth. We have… More ›
That’s right folks, the Teva Slopestyle has begun and shit is gonna get real (excuse the hip hop in me). But seriously, after just one practice session it seems that everyone has brought their A game. Conor Macfarlane is tricking everything; the step-down, the hip,… More ›
Last night the World Bar hosted the Through the Lens video competition as part of the Queenstown Bike Festival. The bar was packed and from memory eight films were shown, some better than others… I’ll try and get them up here as they come out,… More ›
Kelly and Tom have been killing it in the Ballarat St carpark and the Teva Slopestyle course is almost complete. Kelly has test run the starting step-down and the gap to wall and they’re both running smoothly. If you’re in or near Queenstown, get to… More ›
The League of Gentlemen 16″ (it was actually a 20″ bike) World Champs went down tonight at World Bar in Queenstown. I’m no local so I couldn’t really tell who did what ’cause it was mostly a field of locals and foriegn imports who are… More ›
***Hi-Res Flickr Gallery is up here now!*** I thought I’d gotten up early for the second Skyline Speights Super D yesterday, but it turns out about half the field had gotten up even earlier. The car park/tent village was already filling up and come 10am,… More ›
Last night was the Wellington leg of the BikeNZ Bike Plan road show. Forty or so people showed up to hear what they had to say which was pretty much what we all expected. But when I asked, “If you don’t want to join a… More ›
Issue 47 of Spoke will see a bit of a first for us. We’re going to do our first ever head to head review, and in a Spoke twist it’s going to be a Santa Cruz Tallboy up against a Santa Cruz Tallboy. One however… More ›
Downhillers Byron Scott and Gabby Molloy were crowned king and queen of the prestigious Rotorua Mountain Bike Club’s Triple Crown after a tight race on some of Rotorua’s most loved trails and a truckload of home baking. Race one featured Rotorua’s newest track Te-Tihi-o-Tawa which… More ›
A few months ago I got a call from ABD’s Auckland based rider Tim Hunter to go scoping for some lines in a quarry he had jacked up access to. What we found was a multi-tiered sandstone quarry with a perfect snake run feature running… More ›
Longboarders, pizza, homebrew beer and the Jonas Brothers could never go together anywhere else but somehow today the three fit together like peas in a pod at the inaugural Wellington Super V. This rad event will go down for those that were there as one… More ›