The weather changed this weekend. Summer, the longest and most violently summery one I can remember, finally loosened it’s grasp and slipped below the Earth’s waistline to shine and heat another world for the next half year or so. I was thankful to see the rain return after such a dry year and having the…
The latest issue of Spoke Magazine (#46) is available right now. In it there is a story about Switzerland (mainly the Zermatt and Verbier “zones”) that I penned and Mattias Fredriksson shot photos for. You can get hold of a digital copy of the magzine HERE or get a real life, inky smelling piece of relaxation…
Day Four, the final day. Ever since the courses and format was announced it was Day Four that was on everyone’s lips. For one it was to be held not in Whistler but in Pemberton, the spiritual home of steep and deep biking, big climbs and descents that take man balls. Another thing, it was…
I love Grieg Howell. Once my flatmate in Whistler and forever one of the nicest dudes I will ever meet has really started to look into mountain bike photography of late.
So whilst in NZ (this months residence for yours truly) I’m racing around the Dirty South to all the all the two wheeled ‘freestyle’ events, jams and comps that make up the Month of Mayhem. Last weekend was the Stoney Hills Jam, and in two weekends time it will be the Gorge Road Jam but…
So the pigeon post arrived and brought a copy of Spoke Magazine 34
So you may remember the video of the TURD SANDWICH trail thats been posted up on all your favourite social networking and the best websites recently. A superbly flowy looking trail in Queenstown, NZ that was handcrafted by a group of motivated renegades who call themselves The Alliance. Well I took time out from Christmas…
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…
So the insane creation of necessity that I began way back in December 2008, the League of Gentlemen not-race series has kicked off again down in Queenstown, NZ. Its been getting some coverage on Dirt and Spoke web. Here are the links to the coverage LoG kicks off in NZ again press release – Dirt…
Oh wow, occasionally some things just happen in such synchronicity that one must wonder whether it is a deliberate manifestation of an invisible and conspiratorial hand.
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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