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A Lack of Motivation, or Playing "Let's Pretend"?

A Lack of Motivation, or Playing “Let’s Pretend”?

I’ve ridden bikes since I got my first one at age seven.  Since then, I’ve destroyed useless, steel-framed miseryboxes from John Deans’ on epic XC adventures as a teenager, tested exotic, XTR-specced cross-country superbikes for magazines and competed in almost every discipline of bike-racing there is. 2000 Mount Downhill I’ve climbed Alpe d’Huez, raced downhills...
Football, Corruption and All That Folding Stuff

Football, Corruption and All That Folding Stuff

Back in December last year, I postulated that the decision by world football’s governing body FIFA to award the 2022 World Cup to the tiny Gulf state of Qatar was a joke and further demonstrated that money talks, and, unfortunately for Australia, bullshit walks. Now, in light of the ongoing corruption and vote-buying scandal rocking...