The official Kickstand Blog

New Zealand Road Cyclist issue 1

The first issue of New Zealand Road Cyclist is in stores now and it's a great read.

The first issue has a review of a DI2 Wilier, a bit of history about NZ legend Harry Kent, and shows the awesome ride up the Akatarawa valley.

Also in the first issue is a Kickstand tutorial giving some tips and tricks for taping your handlebars. Buy the magazine from any good bikeshop or magazine retailer in New Zealand.

Merv's sob story

To win the Park Tool prize in last month's NZMTBR magazine you needed to submit your best broken-dropout sob story. You can comment on the stories on our Facebook page. This is Merv's story:

Daryl's sob story

To win the Park Tool prize in last month's NZMTBR magazine you needed to submit your best broken-dropout sob story. You can comment on the stories on our Facebook page. This is Daryl's story:

Marcus' sob story

To win the Park Tool prize in last month's NZMTBR magazine you needed to submit your best broken-dropout sob story. You can comment on the stories on our Facebook page. This is Marcus' story:

Megan's sob story

To win the Park Tool prize in last month's NZMTBR magazine you needed to submit your best broken-dropout sob story. You can comment on the stories on our Facebook page. This is Megan's story:

Talors sob story

To win the Park Tool prize in last month's NZMTBR magazine you needed to submit your best broken-dropout sob story. You can comment on the stories on our Facebook page. This is Talor's story:

New Zealand Mountain Biker Magazine

The Aug/Sept issue of NZMTBR is now out on bookshop shelves.

New shop opening

The move to our new premises was a good excuse to get a few friends around.

Two more tutorials

We've just published two more tutorials.

SRAM mountain bike tutorials live

Sram mountain bike tutorials are now live

Vorb Promotion finished

The promotion we ran with Vorb has finished - thanks to everyone who registered and we hope you're enjoying the tutorials.

We ended up giving out 212 free accounts and we've received a LOT of positive feedback.

Vorb Promotion

We ran a promotion over at Vorb giving away 100 free accounts to say 'thanks'

These 100 filled up very quickly and the feedback we're getting has been great so we're holding this promotion open until we hit 200 accounts.

Thanks to all of you who have already registered for your free account - we hope you're enjoying the tutorials.

Rohloff spoke length chart

One hour and 11 minutes to spare

Better espresso through learning

Summer was so long ago

Just a quick winter warmer, here are some choice shots pulled from a photo session with Neville "Butch" Guy (ace photographer) and Chris Kendall (model extraordinaire) and Tristan (extra model to make Kendall look better) from a few months back.

New Frames! (well, paint anyway)

So the Kickstand official painted frames are done in the Kickstand (or Molteni) orange for maximum "look-at-me" factor.

Leather, grease and espresso

Cycling is a lifestyle, and we particularly like the aesthetics of road cycling of days long gone. There's a romance and history with road cycling that has this sense of old leather, cigarette smoke, grease and espresso.