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Even Jesus didn’t get two covers

The Bike Mag BIBLE of Bike Tests issue hit the shelves over the last few weeks. The BIBLE isn’t just an issue of reviews. It isn’t even just a yearly round up of some bikes and parts. It is certainly

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Even Jesus didn’t get two covers

The Bike Mag BIBLE of Bike Tests issue hit the shelves over the last few weeks. The BIBLE isn’t just an issue of reviews. It isn’t even just a yearly round up of some bikes and parts. It is certainly

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Shit Mountain Bikers Say

Some idiots had to do this eventually. Sorry. What did we miss?

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Shit Mountain Bikers Say

Some idiots had to do this eventually. Sorry. What did we miss?

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News Of The Tweet

It seems as though I’m going to have to do some search engine optimization with my weekly News Of The Tweet feature. When I typed ‘news of the tweet’ into Google my feature came up seven places down. Strangely it

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News Of The Tweet

It seems as though I’m going to have to do some search engine optimization with my weekly News Of The Tweet feature. When I typed ‘news of the tweet’ into Google my feature came up seven places down. Strangely it

This photo was taken at the 2010 Interbike show in Las Vegas. This young lady's name was Joanne. She signed the entire quota of her posters the day before so had none left. She doesn’t bike, she doesn’t know why she was there, and I’m willing to take a bet that it was perhaps good training for her to learn to spell her own name.

Booth babes: Yay! or Nay?

[This story also appears on NSMB.com and contains a copy of my Whistler Diaries column called 'Worthless Wankers' that appeared in issue 113 of Dirt Magazine.]  Each September a small cabal of NSMB newsroom hacks head off to Las Vegas with

This photo was taken at the 2010 Interbike show in Las Vegas. This young lady's name was Joanne. She signed the entire quota of her posters the day before so had none left. She doesn’t bike, she doesn’t know why she was there, and I’m willing to take a bet that it was perhaps good training for her to learn to spell her own name.

Booth babes: Yay! or Nay?

[This story also appears on NSMB.com and contains a copy of my Whistler Diaries column called 'Worthless Wankers' that appeared in issue 113 of Dirt Magazine.]  Each September a small cabal of NSMB newsroom hacks head off to Las Vegas with

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HEY NEIGHBOUR!

The future is here. Words aren’t dead but in a changing media landscape they may have to be integrated with moving pictures. The writer’s place isn’t diminishing it is expanding. Stories still matter. This is the first episode of the

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HEY NEIGHBOUR!

The future is here. Words aren’t dead but in a changing media landscape they may have to be integrated with moving pictures. The writer’s place isn’t diminishing it is expanding. Stories still matter. This is the first episode of the

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California

The US of A is a pretty demonized place. Sure, the country has a history of questionable foreign policy and domestic government policy may seem very skewed when looked from an individuals perspective, but please let’s not go there today.

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California

The US of A is a pretty demonized place. Sure, the country has a history of questionable foreign policy and domestic government policy may seem very skewed when looked from an individuals perspective, but please let’s not go there today.

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Surprisingly framed for crimes committed

Last week I was remarkably surprised to be the daily lotto prize winner in the PinkBike Photo Of The Day sweepstakes. You don’t get sent a framed picture of your POD. You do, however, get a framed picture if you

2011 Jamaica Fat Tyre Festival

Surprisingly framed for crimes committed

Last week I was remarkably surprised to be the daily lotto prize winner in the PinkBike Photo Of The Day sweepstakes. You don’t get sent a framed picture of your POD. You do, however, get a framed picture if you

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MORE HALF BAKED IDEAS

Here is another piece I have been sort of working on for a year now. I pitched the idea to Dirt Magazine that they should publish a discussion piece on how social media networks, blogs, etc are changing how athletes

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MORE HALF BAKED IDEAS

Here is another piece I have been sort of working on for a year now. I pitched the idea to Dirt Magazine that they should publish a discussion piece on how social media networks, blogs, etc are changing how athletes

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Not so busy two weeks

It has been busy and not so busy recently. In between riding the heck out of the amazing two week stretch of unbroken blue bird days and heroic riding conditions, I have managed to scribble a few bits and bobs

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Not so busy two weeks

It has been busy and not so busy recently. In between riding the heck out of the amazing two week stretch of unbroken blue bird days and heroic riding conditions, I have managed to scribble a few bits and bobs

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NEPALESE DIARIES

I have a bit of an enforced media amnesty happening about my Big Mountains Adventure to Nepal last month. I hope to have that cleared up soon enough but for now here is an excerpt from my diary in Nepal.

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NEPALESE DIARIES

I have a bit of an enforced media amnesty happening about my Big Mountains Adventure to Nepal last month. I hope to have that cleared up soon enough but for now here is an excerpt from my diary in Nepal.