Canyon Rebooted
The trail fairies have been busy in Woodbrook. Not the Grand Canyon has had a major overhaul and flows so sweetly now, especially in reverse! Plus somewhere on the Woodbrook loop _night_ riders will come across a VERY cool easter egg… not shown here 🙂 (more…)
Melrose 2013 Fat Tyre Festival
It's like Woodstock for Mountain Bikers
Winter Solstice Night Ride
There’s nothing like a mountain bike ride on a sub zero degrees night or thereabouts to get your blood pumping! Thought I should mark the convergence of the Winter solstice and Super Moon with a night ride – the first on the Mojo HDR 650b. A cold and clear Winter’s night combined with gripped up trails made for perfecto conditions. (more…)
650b Goes Local
Riding a new bike setup away from home is one thing, hitting your local trails another! After four weeks in Melrose on the Ibis Mojo HDR it was finally time to hit the trails around Castlemaine. Would the 650b feel as rock and roll at home as it did on Bartagunyah’s Eurovision Super D?
2014 RockShox Pike 27.5 First Look
Fitting the 2014 RockShox Pike 27.5 fork on the Ibis Mojo HDR yesterday I was kinda reminded of my first suspension fork – the RockShox Mag 20. With noodle-like 25.4mm stanchions and theoretical 48mm of travel, back in 1992 it was state of the art. Compared to modern forks it didn’t really do much but with the gold magnesium lowers it wasn’t short on bling, but more than that you just knew it symbolized the start of the MTB suspension revolution. (more…)
Ibis Mojo HDR 650b vs Mojo HDR 26″
Who could resist the _perfect_ opportunity the Ibis Mojo HDR presents to evaluate 650b and 26″ back to back on the same bike setup you know and love? Not me! But I would never have guessed that a few days later I’d be left completely gobsmacked by how things turned out… (more…)
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