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Conor Macfarlane V LKTV

2 By on Monday October 31 2011

Conor Macfarlane has had a great season overseas and is killing it in Queenstown for the summer. Here’s his clip from LKTV from the 2012 Wide Open Product Launch. More ›

Wide Open 2012 Product Launch

2 By on Thursday October 27 2011 in Exclusives

Today the Wide Open product kicks off. Wide Open kingpin Matt Whitaker has shifted the launch from the regular location of Rotorua, and so we’re currently set up in the Copthorne Resort in Queenstown where it’s a clear, sunny day. Tomorrow we head up to… More ›

Endura Race Series

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This weekend sees the third round of the Auckland based Endura race series. On October 30, the series heads to the infamous private singletrack: Slater Road. Get involved and enter here. More ›

Firepit dirtpark spring jam 2011

0 By on Wednesday October 26 2011

The Firepit Spring Jam went down in the weekend and Damian Stones has whipped this little clip together from the day. Looks like they had a good turnout and Nelson/Tasman didn’t disappoint with the weather! More ›

Occupy This

1 By on Tuesday October 18 2011 in Off topic

I’m stupid. I spend far too much time riding my bike to actually know what is going on. I acknowledge my lack of knowledge and so recently I have been trying to reacquaint myself with life outside of bicycles. The obvious starting point was to… More ›

Frankly Thursday – Baker Racing

0 By on Thursday October 13 2011 in Exclusives

You can’t talk about the DH scene in New Zealand without mentioning Sam and Zach Baker. Not only do these two brothers have style for miles (and that’s just their hair), but they’re straight up fast/ pinned/ flat out on pretty much anything with two… More ›

What’s your Issuu?

0 By on Friday October 7 2011 in Off topic

I stumbled across this from The Albion’s Twitter. It’s a webzine that Vincent Perraud produced for a Vans team trip through Europe. Beautiful photos and even better layout; clean and lots of negative space. More ›

10 Things?

0 By on Saturday October 1 2011 in Off topic

I came across this video on NSMB and I know almost nothing about it except that the filming and idea are a step above the usual 7D web edit. About the only information on the short film or its makers is on the Vimeo page… More ›

Finding that which is lost: The Lost Bowl

1 By on Friday September 23 2011 in Off topic

It might be BMXing but it is still bicycling. More so, this short video shares a lot with mountain biking. Particularly exploration, adventure, travel and sniffing out the lines of truth from the piles of rumour. Ruben Alcantara: The Lost Bowl. Fox Head. If you… More ›

Airplane vs. Conveyor Belt Theory

5 By on Thursday September 22 2011 in Off topic

Last week, much like most weeks, I was moonlighting for another media outlet during the Interbike wildness. After a week of chocolate teapots, perfect circles and not-so-new-releases, the one thing that stood out was helping the good Canucks at NSMB.com put this little video together.… More ›

Pickled herrings and moonshine? It has to be Sweden.

0 By on Tuesday September 20 2011 in Off topic

In a fit of procrastination today I came across this hilarious video of Swedish midsummer celebrations that was made by Ikea but then banned by dullards. I narrowly missed the midsummer celebrations in Sweden this year while covering the Scandinavian Photo Challenge for Spoke Magazine,… More ›