Posts Tagged ‘sydney’

: Outpost Project: Street Art Festival

By: g | November 13th, 2011 | No Comments » |

It’s nice when something good comes to town. It’s nicer when one can make a day of it especially when it’s a bit of a trek which keeps the lazy (ie mass crowds) away.

The ‘Outpost Project’ arts festival in their words is: “the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, demonstrating Australia’s leading role in the Street Art movement.” and situated in the middle of Sydney harbour’s “Cockatoo Island’s vast abandoned factories and intriguing forgotten alleyways are the perfect backdrop for projects showcasing the energy and diversity of Street Art. With OUTPOST PROJECT, visitors will be able to see a huge range of Street Art in one location. And because of its dynamic and live nature, the art will change and evolve, giving visitors something different to see throughout the course of the festival.

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Tags:outpost,steet art,sydney

: Deus Ex Machina

By: g | August 18th, 2009 | No Comments » |

The jury is still out on this one.

The Deus Ex Machina machine has been steam rolling through Sydney for a few years now, hard not to when you consider one of the guys at the helm is Dare Jennings, one of the Mambo originals. But it’s hard to figure out if Deus is the real deal or just a quasi, two wheel based ‘trend factory’. Certainly as a brand a Deus T-shirt seems to be the domain of the 30 something that feels silly wearing the surf brand he did in his 20′s.

Still there is a cool factor to what the guys at Deus are doing, because they do it with two wheels.

Most would associate Deus with Japanese-esque custom and restored motos, and kudos to them; what they are doing in this area is pretty damn unique. What many don’t know, at least if you’re not in Sydney, is that Deus is also one of the instigators of the whole SS/Fixie urban trend. Not the core set, like the SSSS or the SYDBMA, but those guys you see in skinny pants trying to push that fresh looking SS/Fixie through traffic up a slight incline, usually looking like a tool doing it.

As a side note, while I am a bit of a Nazi when it comes to this sort of thing, I don’t like fads and those that lap them up, I do wish what’s happening in this area would happen a bit more in the MTB world, which seems to have become so big box ‘oatmeal’ here in Oz….

Anyway, Deus does some pretty neat restorations and conversions and their site is showing some of them off; if the prices are any indication, I would say regardless of the ‘neatness’ of the bikes, they seem to be aimed squarely at the fad chasers.

If you’re so inclined, check it out [here].

Tags:Deus Ex Machina,fixie,single speed,ss,sydney,trend

: An ageing demographic?

By: prc6of7 | June 25th, 2008 | No Comments » |

I was thinking about the post “Mountain Bikers Care About Wild Places” in conjunction with the recent “….tap, tap, tap …..” forum post regarding the aging mountain biking demographics as I rode along yesterday.

I mountain bike because its fun, challenging and it puts me out in the bush in differing conditions regularly (and my family like me better if I have got out and thought and spun).

My appreciation of the sport grows as I get older. I think it is one of the few sports that a person can do for life and that the people who enjoy mountain biking average in their 30’s is not surprising as to enjoy the sport is not generally a cheap one nor is it one that can be learned overnight.

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I was thinking about the post “Mountain Bikers Care About Wild Places” in conjunction with the recent “….tap, tap, tap …..” forum post regarding the aging mountain biking demographics as I rode along yesterday.

I mountain bike because its fun, challenging and it puts me out in the bush in differing conditions regularly (and my family like me better if I have got out and thought and spun).… Read more

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: Getting Serious

By: astroboy | June 3rd, 2008 | No Comments » |

Well, its time to get serious… well, sort of serious… ok not as slack as I have been!

I’ve been riding since about 2001 and really started to get into racing in 2005 – my first race was the 2005 NZo 12hr. A mate and I foolishly decided to race as a pair (how hard could it be?) of course he subsequently fell off and broke his hand on his first lap and I decided to continue on as a solo. After a world of pain for the next 9 hours or so I was hooked on this silly sport of endurance racing.

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Tags:Add new tag,endurance,racing,s,sydney,training

: The transformation begins…

By: astroboy | June 3rd, 2008 | No Comments » |

Based on the feedback I’d gotten about my power output and weight <MP – I can’t find my last post to link to it… >, looks like the thing that I need to work on is improving my power to weight ratio and my lactic acid threshold.

 

Ok, firstly power to weight… this is the ‘simple’ bit. Two things I can do here, (a) increase power or (b) decrease weight. Now both of these are going to be good but I thought that I’d get serious about tackling the weight thing and see someone about what I should be doing (who’da thunk that learning to eat would be so difficult?).

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Tags:bikes,cycling,endurance,learning,mountain r,mtb,racing,sydney,Track,training