Category: Bikes

I recently subscribed to The Ride Journal having heard about it on a podcast from The Bike Show .
The latest edition has just arrived and what a treat, I have not seen such quality and varied writing and photos since BIke Culture Quarterly bit the dust in 2000. Amazing photos and great reading from bmx to cyclocross to audax to history. Simply a classy and wonderful bike publication that you should not miss. It’s more a large format paperback book than magazine.
Check it out.
Once I have read it all I am very willing to lend it out.

Two weeks to go.. Packing the bags this week and over the ditch on Saturday yo! Been practising my hydration intake as dictated by the Coach! More info at: www.nzsinglespeeds.com

I love dirt. I love mud, ..mud fkn rocks. I love ‘cross too, but even more, I love watching roadies mashing carbon fibre uber bikes over mud strewn cobbles.. yeah, the Paris Roubaix is the shit.  With sections carrying  names like ‘Road to the Slaughterhouse’, how could it be anything but good. Queen of the classics is correct. Phil Liggett talking the talk.. “Hammering opponents all the time, hoping you’ve got enough for the pave at the end”.. so rad. Go Phil, go. Boonen on the go (literally?)..  Taswegian boy Wesley Sulzberger smashing it up with the lead group, awesome.. All awesome. Hats off to SBS for showing it.

..and just to plug.. Did you know that a BnC teamster beat Roubaix rider Matt Goss on the track 09? True. BnC world beaters, just like our Andy eh?

I am sure some of you will have seen this, but some of you not. Watch it anyway.

Ok Ok Just when I stated clearly there was no such thing as weird bike..

LOL – you are dead if you don’t

Oh dear, BnC in a triathlon? Yes, unfortunately it’s true. Who would bring such shame on the BnC name? I blame.. Continue reading “Name, Shame, Blame.”

The Melbourne City Council is proposing to redevelop Swanston St – and 7 proposals are on the table. One of these options is banning bicycles in Swanston St – and making it a car and delivery vehicle thoroughfare. This option wasn’t discussed as part of the Council’s consultation process, and seems to be a last-minute attempt to rush through a ban on bikes on Swanston.

One of the things I love about Melbourne, having moved here last year from Hobart, is the number of bike lanes here, and the number of people who ride bicycles as their primary mode of transport. It’s awesome to see people riding past in the morning on their way to work instead of banked up in their cars stressing out. Way more people ride to work here than in Hobart, and I figure a big part of that is having cycle lanes almost everywhere so you don’t have to battle cars the whole time.

Swanston St is Australia’s busiest cycleway. It seems totally ridiculous to me to be discouraging bicycles in the city by removing bicycle access in the CBD and instead catering for cars and delivery vehicles. In a time where we’re seeing the early effects of climate change hitting us already, we shouldn’t be rewarding people for driving cars – we should be encouraging more people to ride their bikes.

So, I’ve filled out the submission form. I hope you can all join me in taking 2 minutes to have a say on the redevelopment on Swanston St.

Have a read about the proposals on the Bicycle Victoria website here
Have your say on the Council submission form here

It’s free, it has great photos, interesting and entertaining reading and if you subscribe it plops into your letter box every couple of month.

For those with too much spare time check out the back issues too.

8am. Sunday Morning. Eastside, Alice Springs.

Post boozy Saturday night, Benny rolls out his singlespeed for the first of the ASCC short-track race series. The 12km singletrack course snakes around the very rocky hills above Alice.. all techy and pea-gravel sketchy-ness, ..so NOT the course for a fuzzy headed BnC’er, especially one with poor tech skills at the best of times. So what happens? With his brain function at minimal output, choosing rational lines through the never-ending rockgarden is simply not possible. Instead, Benny takes his 80mm of travel and just plows through EVERYTHING in his path and amazingly finishes in 3rd place! How? I don’t know.

Some respectibility returns to BnC. BOOZE brought back.

Kids, drink beer, it makes you ride better.

I love a good Riot. Being tear gassed in Bolivia, seeing dynamite thrown about by angy farmers and thinking how it good it would be to be back in London smashing shit up. Then i came across this. Not naming names but if he was there you can bet there were a whole bunch of of kids i used to work with doing the same.

Gasmasks and Balaclavas anyone?

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