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FLR Bushmaster Cycling Shoes in Review
- Reviews & Tech
- MTB
- David Halfpenny April 27, 2017
Cycling is not something I think about when I think about Israel. Actually, it probably wouldn’t even make the top 100 list of things I associate with the middle-eastern country, […]
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Riese&Muller Charger Mixte – a bike for all reasons
- Reviews & Tech
- Urban
- David Halfpenny January 10, 2017
The biggest problem I have when I write e-bike reviews is dealing with the issue of price. Good e-bikes are expensive. Crappy e-bikes are also expensive, but they’re expensive in […]
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Mocha Me Coffee Body Scrub
- Reviews & Tech
- Road Cycling
- David Halfpenny December 12, 2016
Do you love coffee? No, I mean do you really love it? Do you love it to the point where you would you get naked and smear it all over […]
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Book review: Spitting in the Soup – Inside the...
- Reviews & Tech
- Road Cycling
- David Halfpenny December 6, 2016
I’ve always been a big fan of popular science, popular history, popular economics and so on. Essentially, if it’s a topic area I’m not expert in, I appreciate a good […]
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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 […]