By Caleb Smith on Tuesday January 17 2012 in Racing
The first round of the 2012 MTBNZ DH Nationals has arrived in Queenstown. The brand new Remarks Grass Track invites the riders to a fast, loose and ridiculously dusty visit and racing mode is officially on in New Zealand. Jon Television brings you the whole… More ›
By Seb Kemp on Tuesday August 9 2011 in Exclusives
As well as the World Cup in La Bresse and the Enduro Des Nations the other big mountain bike event was the Bearclaw Invitational SLopestyle comp that took place in Mount Washington, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The Bearclaw Invitational is regarded by slopestylers as one… More ›
By Seb Kemp on Thursday August 4 2011 in Exclusives
More Mountain Biking Videos Things are really heating up in the Scandinavian Photo Challenge as we move onto the podium. Local photog Mattias Fredriksson was all set on clinching the top spot shooting on his home trails, but after the jury had made its decision… More ›
By Seb Kemp on Tuesday July 19 2011 in Exclusives, Racing
While I was sipping champagne in the VIP lounge on someone else’s dime and being up the arse of all the right people, James Allan was documenting the front lines. Check out his epic photos from Hecklefest aka the Canadian Open DH race at Crankworx.… More ›
By Seb Kemp on Saturday July 16 2011 in Exclusives, Off topic, Reviews
Sven Martin’s Deep Summer Photo Challenge Entry – More Mountain Bike Videos VitalMTB and Sven Martin have been good enough to post up Sven’s slideshow submission from last year’s Deep Summer Photo Challenge. Today in Whistler the invited shooters and their teams are scoping, planning,… More ›
By Seb Kemp on Wednesday July 13 2011 in Racing
Brook MacDonald is certainly coming into his own now. The consistency that he has shown this year is incredible but now, like Brook himself, we are wondering when the victory will come. I have a feeling that once the first one comes there will be… More ›
By Seb Kemp in Off topic, Racing
Crankworx, the world’s premier mountain bike event, is about to kick off. I just cruised through the village and already it feels like things are heating up. If you aren’t at Crankworx then you’re in luck because you won’t have to deal with all the… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Friday January 7 2011
Win an epic winter mountain biking escape in Central or South America with Sacred Rides worth US$5000. It’s not often that Kiwis get to enter sweet sounding competitions but I’ve just had word from Sacred Rides president Mike Brcic that entries are indeed open from… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Wednesday December 1 2010 in Exclusives
Christmas is almost here, and as most of us know, it’s a time for giving. Photographer Derek Morrison knows this and sent us five of his gorgeous large format 2011 calendars to give away to five lucky spokemagazine.com readers. Think of it as a gift… More ›
By Lester Perry on Tuesday October 19 2010 in Exclusives
REPOST- make sure you get an entry in! From Wednesday until Friday next week Caleb and I will be flowing you news from the Wide Open 2011 product launch, demo day and team roadtrip all the way from (hopefully) sunny Rotorua. Keep your eyes peeled… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Monday September 6 2010 in Exclusives
So you may or may not have clicked through to the Mizone website www.meinmizone.co.nz from one of the ads currently running on the site but we have. In fact Spoke has uploaded a bunch of clips to the site, some from our files and some… More ›
By Lester Perry on Thursday August 12 2010
2010 Boneyard Slopestyle Course walk with John Cowan from Crankworx on Vimeo. Crankworx festival is going down at Whistler this week, with the event finishing up with the Slopestyle competition. Looks like it should be good; there’s plenty of Kiwis (and Seb) over there in… More ›