Pioneer Race Report – Part 2

When I was penning and editing Part 1 of the mini-series Pioneer drama race report, I felt an odd frustration that it wasn't really encapsulating the severeness of the challenge that was unfolding before our fi...

Pioneer Race Report – Part 1

Usually when I sit down to pen a race report and organise my thoughts, I'm relying on the memories and moments that have become history to help guide me. However, this time is different, this time I can still v...

Mission Briefing: The Pioneer

If it wasn't for laziness and general apathy, I suspect I would have got a lot more eHate off the back of my last post as I've slowly slid from the lofty heights of the M40 mid pack ENDURO echo chamber into a w...

Whaka 100 Race Report and a WTF update

There haven't been too many race reports in 2018 and alarmingly one of the last ones was from a... Fuck... XC race. Even more alarming is that I'm about to drop another one, except this time the XC Bandito leve...

Boys & Girl Go Wairoa Wild 2.0

So finally a bit of a post that isn't a race report... But with that upside there is a hidden trap, as this isn't exactly new material either, BUT, its a slightly different angle on a place that should be rathe...

Five Vs. Forty

I recently managed to ram two race reports into a single post, mainly driven by laziness and audience exhaustion, but today, very much by design, I'm going to jam two milestones into a single story. Don't worry...

So I went to an XC Race…

Foreword - So, we're finally back in business after an extended period off, mainly due to the fact that much like Western democracy, we were recently hacked by the Russians and cream pied with Malware. My thank...