By Caleb Smith on Wednesday April 4 2012 in Exclusives
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 ›
By Caleb Smith on Sunday April 1 2012 in Exclusives, Racing
***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 ›
By Caleb Smith on Friday February 10 2012 in Off topic
Queenstown photographer Miles Holden just flicked me through this recent shot of Queenstown’s Gorge Rd jumps. He shot the photo for an up and coming Red Bull BMX event that’s set to see some heavy hitters from Aussie and the US descend on the party… More ›
By johnoldale on Thursday November 24 2011 in Exclusives, Frankly Thursday
Lance has a dream job in a dream location. He is head trail builder/ maintainer at the Skyline accessed trails in Queenstown. For those of you who have had the pleasure of riding his masterpieces, it’s fair to say he does a damn fine job.… More ›
By Seb Kemp on Thursday November 17 2011 in Off topic
Hungry for some Dirt Park action? I am after watching this nicely pieced together video by Jon Bokrantz for Queenstown Bike Taxis. From the QBT website, “Queenstown Bike Taxis offers a transport only service to help you and your bike get to the trails around… More ›
By jonodrew on Friday November 4 2011
Kelly “McMassive” McGarry or Kelly “my arm has a vagina” McGarry as Caleb put it, shreds Queenstown for my camera. Kelly is one of the hardest working riders out there, putting massive effort into his video segments. More ›
By jonodrew 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 ›
By Caleb Smith on Thursday September 15 2011 in Off topic
Just got this press release in from the folks at Skyline. Looks like it’s all on. The world-class Queenstown Bike Park opens to the public for its first full season this Saturday (17 September), offering the only gondola-accessed downhill mountain biking in the southern… More ›
By Seb Kemp on Friday July 8 2011 in Exclusives, New products, Reviews
Some of you may know that Caleb went on a wee road trip around the States recently. As well as sticking his beak in the secret drawers of Greg Herbold, stretching out in Ross Schnell’s planet killer, and discovering that we really weren’t blowing smoke… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Friday April 8 2011 in Reviews
If you live in Queenstown you may have seen the the Atherton trio rocking their new kit, although I know it was kept under tight lock and key. Anyway as of today the team kit and decals are out. In addition there are a few… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Monday November 15 2010
It’s been a while since we brought you any kind of update on the Gondola situation in Queenstown but I just checked out Skyline’s site and it looks as if everything is on track! Skyline are building a new ticketing window (to keep bikes separate… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Thursday November 11 2010 in Racing
If you’re in Queenstown during December we’ve just got word that Graeme Cooper is bringing back the goodness that is the League of Gentlemen for summer and the League’s epic season will kick off with the infamous Das Uber D. All you have to do… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Wednesday June 16 2010
Jimbo Allan just pointed me to this piece that Queenstown newspaper Mountain Scene did on the whole Skyline gondola access issue. They talk to the man. Read full story below. More ›