All posts tagged in Mountain Biking

I love it. The beautiful machine, built out of Carbon, Titanium, Aluminium, Magnesium.. imagined in CAD, engineered to perfection. Then taken out to the great outdoors, in cool crisp mountain air, on lovingly crafted trails out of dirt, rock. Pedalling up, then shredding down.

Clik Compact Sport Review - The perfect adventure / mountain biking camera bag

10 November, 2011

If a photographer and a mountain biker mated, they would have produced this

This is damn near perfect. This is a hydration pack, mixed with a great camera bag. Designed to protect your gear, whilst giving it in whatever outdoor adventure sport that provides your adrenalin. It's the Clik Elite Compact Sport and I give it a full review here with some good pics and compare it to my trusty and well worn Camelbak Hawg

2013 ?

26 October, 2011

Trans-Provence 2011 highlights from Trans-Provence on Vimeo.

3 stages - canopy

27 September, 2011

Tree canopy at 3 stages, just out of Collingwood

The Inca Trail - All Mountain Adventure

22 September, 2011

Exposure. Peruvians have built their country on it. Big scary one slip and you're screwed type stuff. Concentrate and don't stuff up. There's a sat phone, but you really don't want that number called.

Square peg into a round hole? Take the peg apart

16 September, 2011

Stuffing a Trek Remedy into one small bag from Rowan Hick on Vimeo.

Packing my 2011 Trek Remedy into a Pika Packworks MTB Bag

Packing for one adventure, nervous about another

30 August, 2011

The trails started after a bit of road that got people pretty well spaced out. The singletrack was very rooty and semi-flat and rolling. Technical and slow seemed to be the theme for the day. Slow is pretty much the theme everyday for me, but today seemed especially slow. I passed a few riders who were pulled off to the side of the trail having what appeared to be a full mental breakdown. There was lots of cussing, stomping feet, throwing bikes and I even saw someone crying hysterically. I guess the BC Bike Race effects everyone differently.

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Prepping for an epic adventure

28 August, 2011

For the first time in my life, I am doing something on my own that is making me more than a little nervous. September 2nd, I get on a plane bound for Lima Peru, to go ride my bike on a few trails.

...Well that's the understatement of the century.

I mean some trips, you get shots, pack a few books etc. This one, I got Diamox. 'For rapid ascent at high altitudes'.

The Trails are still good

07 November, 2010

A little chilly, but pretty damn sticky when not sliding through leaves. The black beauty and the Don valley:

2010 Trek Fuel Ex 8

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During the weekday Rowan leads an Enterprise web development team, mixing in various languages, frameworks, and databases for a large North American Marketing Agency. In his spare team, he speaks in a funny Kiwi accent, has a penchant for taking his camera places, has a love of carbon fibre, titanium and other exotic materials - mixed with pedals and gravity, he has audiophile tendencies and tends to hack anything he can get his hands on. more about Rowan ...

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