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-- From cycling famine to feast At the end of last year's Tour de France I switched off Sky. Bastards made me orienteer my way to a nondescript Mt Wellington office, where I had to deposit the decoder. No point in gorging myself on magic moments in NRL league and irritating Sky channel promotions...
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-- The cyclist's merkin Naked bicycle rider and natural athlete Nick Lowe ( see RideStrong post here ) has taken his case to the High Court in Wellington in a bid to overturn a conviction and $200 fine for offensive behaviour. My initial reaction was, I suspect, like most others - c'mon people...
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-- A little something for all you haters I love the whole fixie thing. Even tried it once. Now I'm missing a posterior cruciate ligament. Figure I'm not really cut out for that sort of coolness. These days my trusty Avanti's tuned back to freewheel wretchedness and my riding style might be...
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-- I'm finally facing up to 2010. It's a shock, I must say, and I feel like a failed dieter who's been caught red handed with fist fulls of cold turkey freshly plucked from the fridge. The shame of it. But face up I must. The fridge is now empty of dead birds and the fat must go. The important...
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A little Christmas something for the rabid motorist in your life
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It was a cycle commuter haven - a warm current running parallel to the impatient line of cold hard nose-to-tail steel. The 2km bus/commuter lane between the Tamaki Yacht Club and the perilous Ngapipi Road intersection was a fine place for the rush hour cyclist. For sure, an ear was kept out for an infrequent...
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You may have missed the two column centimetres The final chapter of senior police officer Steve Fitzgerald's life closed earlier this month in the Wellington District Court, where truck driver Desmond Wilson was found guilty of causing the death of Superintendent Fitzgerald through careless driving...
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November Sauce - The over achieving Australian glamour puss mountain biker chic Australian mountain biker, graphic designer, model and artist Niki Gudex's world championship mountain biking achievements are dwarfed by her expertly promoted sex appeal. Nothing sells like sex, as they say. Just ask...
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Buy the t-shirt, or I cut your head off Despite a freshly minted road world champion gold medal hanging around his neck, Australian cyclist Cadel Evans is perhaps better known for his prickly outbursts and acts of violence . In this regard, 2008 was a vintage year for Evans, when Tour de France performance...
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Building strong ‘landing' bones Lycra and a plastic lid offer little protective comfort to riders unlucky enough to experience an involuntary road dive. When you hit the road at 40km, something - usually a collarbone - gets broken. Turns out that cyclists could do themselves, and their bones...
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The miles have been bagged and sacrifices made. Now, how to get in the best possible race day condition. Taper, you say. The popular practice is to reduce training volume, but maintain intensity. This way, you'll keep your body primed with all the right enzymes to cope with race intensity. If it's...
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October Sauce - The Cykelkongen girl Big ups to Danish online cyclery Cykelkongen , whose nautically themed latex mash-up is this month's clear winner. The Google Monkeys in the department of translation services tell me the picture title is in fact the Danish translation of Beverly Hills Cop . Only...
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Unions to the rescue Ordinarily, I don't pay much attention to unions. Too many of these types , aw-right. However, the squalid small mindedness of union organisers and their close cousins, rabid taxi drivers , can sometimes be revealing. The protracted dispute between NZ Bus (including Metrolink...