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…
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…
Day two was a short day, only about a quarter of an hour, but don’t discredit day two because of this short time. Today started at 5500 feet up in the mountains and descended over 3000 feet back to Whistler village going through the rooty, rocky, holey hell of the Bike Park. This year the…
Jamaica. Amazing.
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…
“A moving tale of mans quest for happiness in a world characterized by malaise” The New York Times “A visual fiesta…gripping, inspiring and otherworldly” The Guardian “What a right bunch of cabrons…didn’t we see their testicles at Feliz Nuevo?” Sabinas Weekly
So I gave up bashing specific brands and products once Whistler Diaries.com went pop. No reason, besides there’s people doing it far better out there, such as this young lady. So before I go any further I want to make one thing clear, no matter how much I’m about to slate this particular bicycle, just…
I owe Jesse Barham. The above photo that he took is being a right hussy and has slutted itself out to another website/blog. This time on Ferrentinos extremely amusing and enlightening blog (104BRONSON) that he does at part of duties for Santa Cruz as Head Marketeer. Maybe I should offer Jesse a ride on the…
Two days before shooting outta Whistler in the fall I made a visit to the Chromag headquarters to get the gorgeous Ranger stem and brand new soon to be released all-mountain Fubars (in chrome of course). The weather was so cold and wet that day and I had already been on a 4 hour wet…
Loving the Tallboy more than ever. I’ve been getting the DH twitch recently and the Tallboy provides a buzz for blasting corners, tracking off camber and going flat out. I’ve been trying to figure out if I can squeeze in a battle at the NZ National Champs Dual Slalom because this bike would kill it.…
What about the riding in Mexico? I know your desperate to find out what it’s like. Come inside to find out more.
Installment number two of the Mexico In Photos. Now you know what the area looks like and what lives here, it’s time to put some colour into the Why of being here.
An article I wrote for [r]evolution Magazine (awesome ozzy magazine) just appeared on shelves. This means there’s more photos of my package (it was hella cold that evening) being printed and distributed throughout the southern hemisphere. My apologies parents. Here’s a link to Tim Pierces TwatPic Page which contains a shoot of the article in…
There’s too many amazing places to visit in this life, but there is also many places which once the soul has visited that we can’t shake. Places that are like a drug and we need constant fixes of. Places that inhabit all the corners and crevices of our being. Places that change you for 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…
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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