This was the last thing I wrote for BIKE Magazine during my short spell working there. It happens to be my favorite thing I wrote while at BIKE. I wonder why that was? Maybe I knew what was coming and I was relaxed enough to write as I wanted. Or perhaps it’s because the Bike…
[This was one of my favorite projects to work on last year. It was totally impromptu but came together really well I think. It was fueled by beer and my total desperation of how to cover a race event that is totally saturated by the mountain bike media. I approached the group of yelling, boozing…
Story by Seb Kemp/Photos by Dan Barham/Video by Callum Jelley For the full feature, check out the December 2013 issue of Bike Traveling to a foreign land gives you a glimpse of its character. That’s a given. There’s a world of distinction, however, between being a tourist and being a traveler. The tourist experience…
Shimano MW81 Winter Cycling Shoes Price: $230 bike.shimano.com By Seb Kemp/This review originally appeared in the November 2013 issue of Bike Magazine. Winter can take a long run off a short pier as far as I’m concerned. Where I live, winter means dealing with a choking layer of devil’s dandruff. It’s not impossible to ride,…
Brett Tippie is famous for his skills on the bike, for the role he played in bringing freeride to the masses and for his infectious laugh and famously oversized sense of humor. All of that is just scraping the surface of who Brett Tippie truly is. This is a look into the life of a…
In 2011 2Flat’s photo-whore/scribbling-dribbler Seb Kemp accompanied Jordan Manley and Rob Story on a trip through New Zealand for a Bike Magazine assignment. It was a fantastic opportunity to watch two professionals work up close and to roam through New Zealand’s South Island singletrack. Two years later and one of the shots from the trip…
*Here’s a video that Dan Barham, Vernon Felton and 2Flat collaborated on for Bikemag.com. This was an amazing opportunity to get to know an incredible person and in the process produce something quite heartfelt and moving. Mark Weir is an icon. He’s the tough man of modern mountain biking. The grimacing guy, charging down an…
*The following is a little different than usual. A short piece of fiction about a world sometime in the future. Don’t take it too seriously. The Rooster Of Marcelo A short story about good intentions, bad worms and unforeseen consequences. By Seb Kemp Wayne Reid felt so pleased with himself that he vowed to…
Crankworx has been and gone. As usual it was filled with hot days, long nights, missed connections, cursory contacts, lift line hellos, coffee shop commiserations and bar room congratulations. In among the blurriness the problem of creating creative, original, engaging content was forefront in my mind. Crankworx is the epicenter of the world mountain bike…
Video kills me. Remembering lines kills me. Dan Barham heckling me at 6am in the morning after a neck full of spiked drinks while I’m trying to remember my lines for a video kills me. This is a teaser for an upcoming video segment that 2FLAT, Dan Barham Photography and Vernon Felton of Bike…
The Escape – Teaser from Union Production Co. on Vimeo. Recently I did a wee cycle mission around BC, trying to escape the snow (or lack of). Dave Roth and I set out from Whistler on our mountain bikes, towing trailers with our gear, and circumnavigated the Salish Sea entirely by our own power (and…
All of my daily reports from the 2012 Trans-Provence can be found here in one tidy link on BIKE MAG.com
During the Trans-Provence race week I was posting daily reports of the racing and event for bikemag.com. Riding 50km and racing Enduro each day (typically 6-9 hour days) and then trying to write posts on top of the basic survival needs (cleaning, fixing, eating, sleeping) was quite the effort but the wild times and eventful…
It is a long standing tradition that for each issue of Bike Magazine a framed copy of the cover is sent to the featured rider and photographer. Bike Magazine decided to hand deliver a framed 2012 Photo Annual cover to Sterling Lorence’s home in Vancouver, BC. Sterling Lorence has had more Bike Magazine covers than…
The July issue of Bike Magazine is out and has a short piece about Will Craig that I wrote in it. Will Craig isn’t your average mountain biker. He rides with a prosthetic arm. More so, he rides perhaps some of the most technical and demanding trails in the world. Hence why he was an…
What else are you meant to do when Bike Magazine’s editor shoves a microphone in your hand (the one without a beer in it) and tells you to fill 30 seconds of camera time? Being in California makes you do weird things.
If you go to the DIRT MAG website today (or any day if you click the link) you will be able to read a brief interview with Wyn Masters. The interview was originally conducted way back in dec/jan but
So last friday evening im sat at Stoney Hills trails in Dunedin. Just had a rad few hours digging and riding, friends were all around, the sun was setting, the weather was warm, there was a view of the surf, and the first beers had just been opened when my phone rings. I take the…
Yep its the same video as I entered the other day, but since then Caleb at Spoke Magazine has seen it and posted it up on the brilliant Spoke Web. He even adds these very generous words to his post, “Dain Zafke AKA Golden Boy AKA the Dark Lord’s son AKA WTB marketing guy crashed…
In the previous post I referenced a blog post by another chap which contained an epic little youtube video that a certain DAIN ZAFFKE , the marketeer behind WTB, edited up from his whirlwind visit to Whistler in November whilst the Bike Mag Mega Test Fest was going on.
As I have ‘relocated’ the gorgeous orange TALLBOY from Santa Cruz Bicycles HQ, I thought it was only fair that I send Mike Ferrentino the occasional update of the atrocities I’m committing upon the Tallboy.
So last ride I squeezed in before I left for Mexico was a quick ride of the first part of Comfortably Numb and then descending out on Young Lust. Nothing special except for the snow. It had been snowing hard for several days but we were keen to look at the snow line. Colin Meagher…
Above are links to two mentions I have got on the Spoke Magazine website recently. Granted, I actually posted one myself, but come on it still counts doesn’t it?
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