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Cardrona dirt days
We recently had the opportunity to take a trip to Cardrona and experience an alternate perspective to the regular snowscape. The Cardrona Bike Park is in it’s first full season after a successful trial season over the 2014/15 summer and has something to offer for everyone from hardcore DH... Read Post
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Athlete Blogs: Latham Fairhall – Training Tips
Some days you just don’t feel it….. There are always going to be hard days, the days where training is a struggle. Often those days are influenced by external circumstances but there are also those days where the sun is shining and you can’t be stuffed. That’s the dark hole that... Read Post
- Bike, tips, advice, running, training, athlete blog, help, motivation, latham fairhall, biking
- 12 Apr 2016
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Athlete Blogs: Jonas Meier – NZ Enduro 2016
The Enduro event that needs no introduction, voted the best Enduro race in New Zealand in 2015. A 3 day, 9 stage event following the World Series format. It comes as no surprise that it attracts riders from around the world! The trails are truly amazing and the views are breath-taking. ... Read Post
- mtb, mountain bike, New Zealand, Nelson, enduro, trail, athlete blog, jonas meier
- 11 Apr 2016
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Torpedo7 Through the Loop Enduro
Hatched over a couple of Stoke Pilsners after a busy day on the go up at Crankworx Rotorua, the idea for a gravity-orientated enduro was driven by the apparent lack of events around the Queenstown Bike Festival for 2016. With only two weeks to make it happen, a plan was quickly pulled together and... Read Post
- Bike, mtb, mountain bike, enduro, race, queenstown, fernhill, ben lomond
- 05 Apr 2016
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Athlete Blogs: Naomi Whitehead – Day Trippin’ on the Old Ghost Road
The longer we live in Nelson, the longer our to do list seems to get as we discover more and more awesome adventures on our doorstep. The Old Ghost Road bike trail was high on our list and we were lucky enough to convince our good mate Marcus Roy to join us in early February. […] Read Post
- mtb, mountain bike, enduro, trail, trip, old ghost road, west coast
- 01 Apr 2016
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Athlete Blogs: Anja McDonald – Tour Aotearoa
I was standing, laughing with some friends who had been waiting to see me come by. A woman I didn’t know asked where I’d just ridden from. I replied ‘Cape Reinga’, and she laughed, or sort of scoffed, and walked off. I looked at my friends and we all cracked up. I was on my... Read Post
- Bike, New Zealand, tour, aotearoa
- 31 Mar 2016
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Athlete Blogs: Merrin Brewster – MTBNZ Cup Race 2016
Mountain Biking at Hawea Flat I love sport, so a whole weekend of watching and participating sport meant I was in my happy place. This was Wanaka February 2016. When Wanaka was announced as the venue of the third round of the MTBNZ Cup I jumped onto the internet to see what camping options were... Read Post
- wanaka, New Zealand, XC, race, Lake Wanaka, xco
- 31 Mar 2016
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Marmot Egg Hunt 2016
The Marmot Egg Hunt is on now! We’ve hidden tokens around the country on local trails near our 10 stores. Read Post
- 24 Mar 2016
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Athlete Blogs: Matty Graham – Tour Aotearoa 2016
It’s about the journey, not the destination. This was something I pondered long and hard over the 3000 km Tour Aotearoa course. If you were to choose a destination to travel to, Bluff would not be high on my list but it was certainly a place I was looking forward to reaching. Likewise, the... Read Post
- Bike, New Zealand, adventure, tour, solo, nz, aotearoa, unsupported
- 21 Mar 2016
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Brandon Semenuk now holds four Crankworx Festival Golds
The man who wrote the book on Slopestyle penned himself a new first, Saturday, as the inaugural winner of the Kelly McGarry Memorial Trophy at Crankworx Rotorua. Brandon SEMENUK’s effortless performance bested even Nicholi ROGATKIN’s groundbreaking 1080, dubbed “The Twister”, on an... Read Post