The mountain biker's journal. World-class photography and writing from New Zealand. It's not just about the bike.
SPOKE was created in 2001 by Caleb Smith and Emma Gee as a response to the vast amount of generic mountain bike magazines available
SPOKE was created in 2001 by Caleb Smith and Emma Gee as a response to the vast amount of generic mountain bike magazines available
So we should have Auckland’s date confirmed tomorrow but the Wellington premiere date for LifeCycles is in the bag. We will be showing it at the Penthouse Cinema in Brooklyn on September the 27th at 8.30pm. Tickets will be $15 and available on the Spoke web shop shortly. We will also be offering DVD...
Wellington Reprazent!!! Sarah Aitken killed it in here first true international competition for 5th Place. Photo Patrick Fallon
So you may or may not have clicked through to the Mizone website www.meinmizone.co.nz from one of the ads currently running on the site but we have. In fact Spoke has uploaded a bunch of clips to the site some from our files and some kindly donated by cinematographer Aaron Lutze. There four up at th...
These results aren’t that new but going into the Red Bull Rampage Kelly McGarry is sitting in 14th place in the first year of the Freeride World Tour. A good result at Rampage could shift him into the top ten, which means cash money for Mr McMassive. Keep up date with Kelly over on his blog here.
There’s no pics in yet but Sam Hill slammed the competition at a wet Mont St Anne to take the win over 2nd place finisher and Canadian Stevie Smith, and third place finisher Greg Minnaar. Blenki, Brook and Justin all put in solid performances (9th, 12th and 14th respectively) but in the one off race...
Friday and Saturday have been all about Cross Country competition at the Mont Sainte Anne World Championships in Quebec, with a stunning Friday evening of Four Cross racing thrown in to mix things up a little.
Franks ended up with the short straw in his opening 1/8 final pitted against eventual winner Chezh Tomas Slavik. Brit Scott Beaumont took ruined Daniel’s chance of a 1/4 final and left him as the highest placed rider not to advance to the 1/4 final. Not bad for his first world champs. You can downlo...
I just got wind of the U23 XC results and Dirk Peters and Carl Jones seem to have put in solid performances to achieve 36th and 39th respectively in a field of 58 finishers. Brad Huston pulled of a respectable 32 in the juniors. Pics to come with Mildys report but for now you can check the full u23 ...
SPOKE magazine Samara Sheppard 11th in U23 World Champs XC, Danial Franks qualified 11th in the Four-Cross!!!
Samara Sheppard was a black and silver Cross Country mountain bike machine today at the Mont Sainte Anne World Championships in Quebec today. Sheppard (Rotorua) was the sole NZ representative in the 35 strong Under 23 Women’s race, run over 4 ½ laps of a brutal Mont Sainte Anne race course. From a s...
After a few months of voting and judging Red Bull’s high profile photographic competition Illume has finally drawn to a close with 24 year old Chris Burkard’s photo of Peter Mendria riding waves on Chile’s West Coast winning the Overall award in what is the world’s biggest action and adventure sport...
Carl Jones on route to secure the NZ relay team 16th place (which sounds way better than second to last) Photo Patrick Fallon
SPOKE magazine Frankly Thursday with Byron Scott this week..... Choice!
“A two sided coin” that’s how I would describe Byron Scott, there are two distinctly different (and sometime opposite) sides to him, but what’s in the middle is gold (well, some sort of metal).
SPOKE magazine LAWN DARTS AND TOE RAGS
Ground Effect are trying to reignite the long dead flame of the sport of Human Lawn Darts (basically giant darts). The sport that was banned in the US when a Lawn Dart killed a small child (impaled her in the head). Anyway with Ground Effect’s latest TT2 tee, designed by Ex Spoke designer Emma Gee, ...
