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ICON 1000 Dromedarii

Posted on February 15, 2013 | Leave a comment

So this promo vid for ICON’s Triumph Tiger 800XC keeps it 1000% hyphy, damn. Gulf War footage cutups? check? Wheelies and burnouts? Check. Making me want to go terrorize the streets? Check. If you watch this and don’t understand why motorbikes are the best thing ever then you need to check your pulse. Learn more about this beauty over at the ICON site.

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Grammin Out Pt.3

Posted on January 31, 2013 | Leave a comment

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Here is the third edition of our Grammin’ Out series, which features photos from Kevin and I’s day to day action. With Kevin recently moving back to Vancouver Island we are officially back in the same city (again) and couldn’t be more stoked. Over the last while we have really been making an effort to get out there and explore the island and all that surounds it, and as such here is a look at some of our travels and day to day adventures. Oh yeah, and you can follow us here and here.

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nonnative Spring/Summer 2013

Posted on December 27, 2012 | Leave a comment

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Maybe my least favourite seasonal collection since we started posting nonnative? And I omitted the looks that seemed to include Ugg boots as the footwear of choice… take a look back at their s/s 2010 collection and you’ll see what I’m getting at: perhaps it’s a loss of masculinity to a collection that couldn’t afford to tone that down much in the first place, but there’s something about this lookbook that just ain’t working for me. As always with this line I dig everything on a piece-by-piece basis, but the overall styling of this run isn’t the one. Fall/winter is always a stronger move from most labels regardless, and we’ll look for nonnative to bounce back later in 2013.

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08sircus Fall/Winter 2012

Posted on December 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

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Yes, it’s a little late in the season to be posting f/w 2012 collections, but damn if the styling in this set of looks from 08sircus doesn’t warrant recognition. These days we seem to be more vocal about lines we consider to be ‘too menswear-y’ or ‘too fashion-y’ as we tend to keep it more simple/functional/technical, but I’ve got nuff respect for these wild-out looks: texture, pattern, colour, the styling here is on point and unrepentant, and comes together hella tough. The game could use more of this and less of… well, most things.

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Bradley Wiggins: A Year In Yellow

Posted on December 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

Wiggo is a living legend, indisputable at this point. His 2012 was unparalleled and unprecedented, winning everything he entered and being transparently drug-free… just an absolute machine when it comes to training and enduring the suffering it requires to be a champion. Produced by his team lead sponsor in Sky Atlantic,  Bradley Wiggins: A Year In Yellow provides an all-access behind the scenes look at the Wiggins family dynamic, his training regiment, and his unique sense of (wry) humour as he deals with his coaches, teammates, and the media. A compelling watch in the same vein as Hell on Wheels, I can’t recommend this documentary enough, and look forward to following team Sky during the 2013 season  for more Wiggo dominance.

Note: unsurprisingly Sky Atlantic had the full length pulled from YouTube. Watch the trailer above then go find a torrent! 

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The Rapha Continental: Greg LeMond

Posted on November 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

Rapha turns in another amazing iteration of their Continental series, this time riding with Greg LeMond around his hometown of Carson City, Nevada. With the events of the past few months in professional cycling front and centre in every fan’s collective consciousness, it is now safe to say that LeMond is the greatest American to put foot to pedal: if you need a reminder of why, please watch the 1989 TdF final stage time trial below, a only a part of LeMond’s heart, tenacity and legend.

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Fall HXC Get It Playlist

Posted on October 19, 2012 | 1 Comment

It is fall. It is raining, cold, dark, and not full of stoke. Are you going to stay inside on the couch, watch HBO and eat chips, or are you gonna hardman up and put fenders on that bike, hit that climbing gym, put in them reps on the bench, run in a monsoon and/or hit the pool before dawn breaks? I for one choose the later options, but I need fuel. Besides good whole foods there’s nothing like audible hatred to get you going when it comes to athletic endeavours this time of year, so here are 10 banger HXC tunes for your iPod, to max that last 10 min doing whatever it is you’re doing when you’d rather quit and head home. Put in the work now, be jacked by the time the sun comes back. Or rewatch The Wire for the 3rd time, your call.

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Narifuri Sports Fall/Winter 2012

Posted on October 15, 2012 | Leave a comment





Here’s a look  the f/w 2012 offering thus far from Tokyo’s Narifuri Sports line, a proper cycling collection of kit from jersey to arm warmer to shorts. Definitely a bit of a stylistic bend on these pieces (e.g. cargo pockets on the shorts), and the jersey patterns are rad. If/when pt. 2 of this collection releases I’ll be sure to update: for now, more after the jump.

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