NzoLand
Feb 19, 2020
Product testing and its downfalls
We’ll admit it.
There are definite upsides to be in the business of bike stuff, and near to a whole heap of tr...
Feb 7, 2020
Getting with the programme
One of our mates has started a ‘training programme’. He has a ‘coach’. He is thinking about his entry in a ‘rac...
Feb 7, 2020
No School like the Old School
The other day we went for an unorchestrated spin in the woods.
We had a plan, it went out the window. Our mate had ...
Jan 30, 2020
Three will do, thanks
Summer is still the flavour down here. We have been getting out on the bikes even more than usual, and I am rea...
Jan 30, 2020
Growing MTB Parks
Last week we delivered a run of custom stuff for a special crew.
They were happy with how it came out, we were...
Jan 21, 2020
2020 and the state of the sport
During the festive season a mate penned a couple of articles for the local paper.
These got us thinking about t...
Dec 10, 2019
Trees / No Trees / New Trees
In Rotorua, most of our riding is done in a ‘working forest’. It is a very complex scenario - the land is owned by it...
Nov 19, 2019
White Line Fever, and the antidote
This time of year I am usually doing different versions of the same thing: cramming in some road miles, trying to ge...
Nov 5, 2019
It happened here
In Rotorua we are in the middle of the hottest, driest spring since records began, or at least as long as we can rem...
Oct 22, 2019
Intergenerational bike shorts
E-bikes! Love them or hate them.
Or both.
For me, it depends whether I am riding one at the time. When I am doin...
Oct 8, 2019
The big question
We get a lot of emails asking various questions, and among the most frequent is “what should I order, Dobies or Sift...
Sep 13, 2019
Scratching Your Itch
Mountain biking is one of the few sports where the participants can create their facility. In many places, they have ...