: Cooler than riding (sorry, it is)

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Need4Speed: Insight from Phoenix Fly on Vimeo.

 

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: Easton Haven vs. Haven

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For the past half year, I have been lucky enough to be riding on Easton’s Haven wheel sets. I say wheel SETS as I scored both the Aluminium AND the Carbon versions to use. Unlike many reviews, I have used both sets extensively under my 95kg (!) backside for months on end so feel comfortable in saying that they have actually been extensively, and thoroughly, used.

So, what is there to be said about these wonders? One would think I should be full of praise and joy. I did not pay for these wheels but they were paid for, so Easton did not ‘give’ them for testing. As such I am not obliged to say anything good about them if I don’t want to… but I do… for the most part. (more…)

 

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: He was….. fast

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5.50am.

Far to steamy for that time of the morning but the quietness was nice; no commuters jamming the bike path.

I cross the main road at the end of the path and head over to the flyover. That’s when he appeared.

Silent. I didn’t see or hear him at all. The morning commuter on his Kona.

He zipped passed me and sped off. I’ll catch him on the fly over, easy.

But it wasn’t.

He kept ahead and sailed off the footpath to cross the intersection; the cleanest, smoothest hop I’d seem in a while. He made no noise, just a ‘pop-hop’ and off again.

I got close half way over the flyover. I had reeled him in that little bit.

But then it was onto the bridge climb. A fast down and then up to the apex of the bridge. Maybe 4-500 meters all up.

Feeling good, warmed up, and pushing my single ‘big’ ring, my pace was not slow… his was just faster, smoother.

Better.

I hit the apex of the climb, I can still see him. Maybe, just maybe, I can pull him in on the drop down to the switchback path.

Not a chance.

Just as quietly as he arrived in my ride, he vanished. He dropped the hammer and was no where to be seen.

No where.

That dude was fast.

To you Sir, whoever you are, I tip my hat.

 

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: Designing a Mountain Bike

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Done and dusted with Mountain Cycle, I was cleaning up my files when I came across a wad of drawing scans I did that defines the design process of the Mountain Cycle San Andreas 2.0; from the period of 2008-2011 I was involved with Mountain Cycle and in 2009 was tasked to design, manage and oversee (the Taiwan based owners chose to manage production and QC themselves) the first new line of frames the company had seen for some years.

The design process used to create such bikes, or products for that matter, is one that for many remains a mystery – it’s understood that somewhere someone does something and at the end a finished product is spat out of a factory but not much more. So rather than bury this away, never to be seen again, I thought some out there might find the whole process interesting, or at very least slightly entertaining. (more…)

 

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: Old Skool Style

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Thought it’d be nice to make myself an old skool style urban musette…

 

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