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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Kashi Leuches talks 350.org
I went for a ride with Kashi Leuchs and Anja McDonald yesterday to talk about 350.org and mtb in gerenal. (350 parts per million is the upper sustainable level of CO2 in the earths atmosphere, we’re currently sitting at 380ppm) Kashi Leuches Interview 350.org from Jeff Carter on Vimeo. I interview Kashi Leuches and Anja [...]
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Wyn Masters mashes Brian Lopes
Pump Track World Champs Wyn Masters NZ from Jeff Carter on Vimeo. During the MTB World Champs in Canberra one of the local bike shop owners held a Pump Track World Champs in his backyard. 200 invited guests and 30 of the worlds top riders made for a fun night. Here New Zealand’s Wyn Masters [...]
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Alan Vogt Interview
Alan Vogt Interview Canberra from Jeff Carter on Vimeo. MTBNZ President Jeff Carter talks with Mont24hr race organiser Alan Vogt in Canberra, Australia in the days leading up to the World MTB Champs Sept 2009
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Pump Track World Champs 09
We headed to the first ever “Pump Track World Championships”, an informal and superfun event held in the backyard of local bike shop Onyabike owner. It was strictly invite only with a burly bouncer from Christchurch on the gate, we’d managed to secure some tickets to this exclusive event. There were 30 invited riders, including [...]
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Canberra report, day 2
Today the Junior and U23 girls had their respective XC races. Before we their race our crew decided to head out for a an exploratory ride following the advice of Lawrence Mote, XC Coach and Ground Effect employee. We headed up to the Telstra tower on Black Mountain and found some mint singletrack up there, [...]
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Day 1 in Canberra: MTBNZ team comes 18th in Team Relay
The team relay has never been a strong event for NZ, the juniors race in the next few days, so they’re never keen to thrash themselves. First rider out of the gate was Mike Northcott, second Nicola Leary (Rotorua), third junior reserve Brad Hudson (Christchurch) and finally Ash Hough (Tauranga). Mike got tangled up in [...]
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Riding in Wollongong
On-route to Canberra World MTB Champs the MTBNZ executive spent a couple of days riding around Wollongong’s trail network with Mountain Bike Australia Magazine’s John Hardwick and sidekick Gwin. They ripped our legs off with a steep climb up the lookout above the gong, but followed it up with a bunch of sweet tech rocky [...]
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