Category: Bikes

Im gonna get killed for this…look out for the worldwide adventures of Buffalo Bills brake.

Yo kids, management seem to have worked out this intermail eweb thingy and the site is back up. So heres a quick update from the Mother Country. After several months of living the dream, drinking far too much alcohol and tearing my arse out on the super smooth and well maintained streets of London, its all over. Time to cash my ticket in and head back to the little island. I came, i rode, i survived. Just. If we were talkin footy, the number of hard ball gets and tackles laid is way up there. Pity none of them paid off. I left bruised but not broken, expensive cars were left with a permanent impression of me and as for the black cabs…my last shepherd came off badly. Still, riding alleycats paraletic and playing chicken with solid objects is never a good idea. So goodbye to all the cats in London, i had a hoot and Taz 25 is outta here…ya cunts

So the scorecard…

Number of drunken crashes – lots

Number of sober crashes – not many

Number of drunken crashes remembered – not many

Number of riders who windmilled the pink panther on windmill street – 3

Okay been a slacker, its all going down, the beer and me after it riding home drunk. I went to scotland, i survived and came home. There was a courier race in there somewhere. If you guys have a spare half hour sit down and have a listen to this. A day in the life of the kids im working with…

Buffalo Bill and the Nhatt Attack…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/fxfcu/

Its all good times here. Its all go at the mo

http://www.londonscalling.info/

http://www.houseofpistard.com/

http://www.millportpoloco.blogspot.com/

Hunnibell

The debate is finally settled and the results are in.

Gears officially blow .

Like an anchor they add weight and slow you down.  Time is wasted each time you faff about changing them. Do yourselves a favour and ditch the dead weight. Fixed is quite simply faster. I ran a series of er, ‘experiments’ to prove the above statements. Twice I rode the Southern Vets TT @ Sandford, once on a steel fixed gear clunker and the second on a trick full carbon, geared race bike.. AND what happened? I was FASTER on the the FIXED gear! The results speak for themselves:

Geared carbon wunder bike – Time: 23:26    Average Speed: 35.33kmph

Fixed gear steel clunker       –  Time: 23:24    Average Speed: 35.88kmph

Mish-Mash snuck off quietly a few months ago and came back only to escape once again with Benny in tow, this time they’ve headed up to the rock. Dave pissed of yonks ago and has finally surfaced again in Canada (thats his photo up there…). Hunnibell is posting from London. Tim is riding back home in Holland/Belgium/Europe somewhere!?

What does it all mean? Continue reading “Where is everyone?”

Okay, home from work after a nice British day, im serious, it was hot and the sun shone. But before you continue, be warned this is a rant, im drinking fosters, its been a while and i need to vent. Life here ticks along and the paperboy is getting his bearings ever so slowly (thank god for my A-Z).

Im still Londons slowest courier (or half arsed) if the last alleycat was anything to go by, but at least my DNF was due to excessive alcohol consumption influenced by my lack of fitness and the inability to hack the pace. Thanks to the pistette from the house of pistard for towing me round for a few checkpoints. Continue reading “London, the same everywhere you go…”

http://www.ozbybike.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74&Itemid=9

Changes are afoot here @ B’n’C HQ.. L-Dub will soon be off to Melburn-town to start his new life as a woman (does this mean The Scandal will disband?), and Mashmonster and I are off to the Red Center in two weeks..  As Les Hiddens was unavailible to shoot the new season of Bush Tuckerman and Disco is currently doing his bit designing an improved CM-2000 in Cairns, Mash and I have stepped into the breach… or something like that. Been doing alot of reasearch into desert cycling to learn what we should expect. Ant’s site OZ-by-bike has been particularly helpful. We’ve both opted for simple and practical bikes.. Mish is taking a single-speed Kona Paddywagon and I’ve re-built the Surly Steamroller for bush conditions: CX armadillo tyres with puncture resistant tube liners and goo filled tubes for the ever prevalent three cornered jacks, bottle mounts, comfortable bars and pannier mounts..

Yo! I’m off to live in the Red Centre in three and a half weeks.. So first up on the farewell Beans tour is an ALLEYCAT!! All are welcome and any bike will suit the task at hand. The aim of the er, ‘ride’ ..is to have fun riding ya bike with friends and like minded crew.. but for the fleeter pushbike bandits I’ll make note of who is quickest to complete the missions! Meet outside the ART SCHOOL @ HUNTER STREET @ 4PM for a 4:15 START! Seeya all you BnC Cadets there!! Stay Rad.

Dave’s blog http://davesbikeblog.blogspot.com/ is one of the better bike-centric blogs I’ve read. The posts, http://davesbikeblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/dope-historical-prospective.html and http://davesbikeblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/monday-morning-talk-around-coppi.html are particularly worth reading.

   

Hanmer Springs is one of the South Island’s premier Mountain Bike destinations. A series of quality trails lead out of the town and climb up into the surrounding hills.. The return descents are well worth the effort of pointing up. Mash and I hit Hanmer last month for a few days of riding. We arrived morning after the first snow fall of the season, so it made for challenging riding.. especially on my 32 x 17 geared singlespeed. Mark and Neil of Krank clothing and Peak Fuel made us welcome in town and Neil even loaned us additional cycling clothing to ward off the cold after only having chatted to him for 5minutes.. These blokes were two of the nicest fellas we met in NZ.. So take 5minutes to have a squiz at their websites if you get the chance, or if you are ever in Hanmer drop in and see ’em for a yarn.

 http://www.krankdirtwear.com/  http://www.peakfuel.co.nz/