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Sometimes you need to do it yourself – Junior...
- News & Features
- Opinion
- David Halfpenny September 9, 2016
Let’s do some simple maths: according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there are around 3.75 million school students in Australia spread between 9,400 schools. Although there are some big […]
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Bosch Performance Line – There are No More Hills
- Reviews & Tech
- Urban
- David Halfpenny August 29, 2016
The hill has a twenty percent grade. I can climb it with difficulty on my regular road bike and not at all on my fixie. I rode up the hill […]
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The Lekker Amsterdam – it’s not your normal Dutch...
- Reviews & Tech
- Urban
- David Halfpenny March 16, 2016
When I think of Dutch bikes I think utilitarian, plain, heavy, slow, retro. While there’s nothing wrong with that list of characteristics, what if you took that general Dutch sensibility […]
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Iconic Cycling – The Green Rocket Rides Again
- News & Features
- Opinion
- David Halfpenny December 29, 2015
Head-on. Drunk driver. Hit and run. These were the first words my eyes fell on when I opened a cycling forum post from a riding mate of mine. I scanned […]
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Talking cycling with NSW MP Bruce Notley-Smith
- News & Features
- Urban
- David Halfpenny August 26, 2015
Bike registration. Rider licensing. Removing cycleways. Increasing fines for cyclists. Slaps on the wrist for dangerous drivers. If you trip over any of these concepts on a daily basis, then […]
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The ATEC Expo – Better than expected
- News & Features
- Opinion
- David Halfpenny July 18, 2015
After a few “meh” cycling expos in Sydney in recent years, I didn’t hold out much hope for the inaugural ATEC (Australian Triathlon, Endurance and Cycling) expo, held on the […]
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Review: The supremely functional SweatHawg Headwear
- Reviews & Tech
- Urban
- David Halfpenny July 3, 2015
Truth be told, the reason this review is coming out in the middle of winter is because I became so used to the SweatHawg that I forgot about it. It […]
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Seeing sense with See-Sense smart lights
- Reviews & Tech
- Urban
- David Halfpenny June 16, 2015
When it comes to the bike lighting arms race, there is usually an escalation in light output and/or battery life between brands and models. The light’s form factor (size, shape, […]
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Review – Nite Flux Red Zone 8 400 Lumen...
- Reviews & Tech
- Urban
- David Halfpenny April 20, 2015
I like products made for cyclists by cyclists, and when they’re Australian cyclists, it’s much more likely to address my situation, since I’m also an Australian cyclist. Made in Adelaide, […]
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Upstand Review – a bike stand for roadies
- News & Features
- Urban
- David Halfpenny April 7, 2015
If you have a look around at advertisements for second hand road bikes and groupsets, you’ll notice that a lot of them have words to the effect that the saddle or […]
