Who: Feit ( pronounced: ‘Fight’ ) Shoes

What: An Australian designed/owned ‘premium’ sneaker brand.

Why: Because hand picked materials in shoes made to exacting specifications is nice in this day of bland Athlete’s Foot and Footlocker selections.

Where: We found the Feit shop tucked away in a cool and minimal sub basement shop in East Sydney (cnr. Burton and Riley Sts).

G’s Opinion: I am not really into the whole designer sneaker thang, at the same time though I like shoes that I can wear to a business meeting as much as I can hanging out (OK I am not a patent leather business shoe guy - woohoo!). After I stumbled on the Feit store I was really surprised to find a range of shoes that covered my pretty basic (yet difficult) needs in a single pair of shoes. From full leather to leather/canvas mixes, high top and low top, Feit shoes are neat, clean and very well made.

I bought a pair of leather/canvas low cuts that I have been wearing almost constantly for months now. The clean cut has been a god send when it comes to getting dressed, as they seem to go with everything, casual and not so. The build quality is top notch (read the stitching is showing no signs of unraveling) and the materials show that they have been selected carefully, as they are showing only small signs of wear (once I clean them!). The Vibram sole is a bonus and keeps my feet comfy all day.

For the $220 I paid for them, a very reasonable price considering they are a relatively low volume premium label, is a more than good price, especially after I walked into Footlocker recently to be confronted with cookie cutter shoes with much higher price tags and a whole lot less leather or quality.

Go find a pair and make yourself feel good

We have… n one machine in anyway. As you can see Bomb Squad Industries likes black, so we find this concept rather interesting…

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It’s come and gone for another… well few months in anyway. Another successful, if I may say so myself, 5D Event.

This time around we ran the 12 Hours OF not so much Darkness, a first as it seems we seem to have developed a fetish for doing things at night! Anyway, numbers were up, down considering the pull outs due to change of dates, but still up. I think next year it will be 200 easy and the event series should be full.

As usual there were a range of highlights that always make running the events such a joy. Smiles all round and ‘Tripples’ from the Sydney Single speed Society courier crowd topping it out by nabbing not one but near all the treasures on the track AND still riding 15 or so laps solo AND having been hit by a van at work in Sydney’s CBD!!! Bloody hell.

The crew from the Hunter Valley Mountain Bike Association as usual ponied up a brilliant track…. apparently (this is the first course I have not ridden) and the timing and the rest went flawlessly. it’s amazing what can be achieved by doing things simply!

In all though, as a pre run to the 2008 5D ‘..OF..’ Race series, I gotta say we are all convinced there will be great times to be had. Of course being true to 5D form, there will be a bunch of new features coming up that will make the events a better and funner (is that a word?) experience. What’s best though it that it has rebirthed my love of the sport and that has to be a good thing!