The CGK

Our buddy Chris (VZR) from Christchurch always comes through...

hdotthinks — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:26:52 +1300

Our buddy Chris (VZR) from Christchurch always comes through with the custom metal goods! One of two 48 tooth 1/8” 144BCD custom lazer cut and engraved CGK chainrings.

Thanks Chris this is rad!

HDotShot

hdotshots: Foot Braking Howe St, Auckland Foot braking really...

hdotthinks — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:33:52 +1300

hdotshots:

Foot Braking

Howe St, Auckland

Foot braking really takes its toll on your trusty old Vans.

Ricoh GRD III

Woodys X T.Whites Bootleg Hustle

hdotthinks — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:54:57 +1300

An awesome day was had, cheers to Woody, Tim and all the people that made it happen.

Race was a 6 stop check point around Auckland, coming in at around 25kms depending on route and order of check points.

Duncan, Kenny and I took what turned out to be a some what bad route choice, and battled with some annoying winds on the waterfront.

4 checkpoints down around Showgirls of all places i got my third flat of the week…

Thus resulting in me calling it quits and drinking beer at a checkpoint with these two in the howling wind…

Results came in with;

1st – Max 41:25

2nd – Jenna 41.30

3rd – Teva 43.45

Massive thanks to all that made this event happen, awesome work!

New Shirt Drops...

hdotthinks — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:53:00 +1300

In this fine year of two thousand and twelve we, The CGK decided to move into a classy upper echelon evolution of our Chain Gang Kids logo, on a bad ass mother fuckin’ tee shirt.

Oh snap its black on black, that shit is stealth as!

We have a spastically limited amount of these puppies up for grabs get in contact if your interested…

hagan@thecgk.com

BW/01/02/2012

hdotthinks — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:54:20 +1300

Not a good night for me, 2 punctures and a pick up.

¿Qué?

Catlike-ipede. As you can see a few of us have Catlikes.

hdotthinks — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:35:11 +1300

Catlike-ipede.

As you can see a few of us have Catlikes.

After keeping things under wraps for some time and only dishing...

hikenny — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:47:00 +1300

After keeping things under wraps for some time and only dishing out a small teaser last week, Wellington crew Dame Truth have coughed up the goods and produced a couple of snaps of their new team kit.

Razzle Dazzle design and in full flight! Solid work lads.

Few extra pics from their track session last night - here.

Photo credit: Grant Davis.

Woodys Bike Goodies & T.Whites Bikes presents; The...

hdotthinks — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:13:27 +1300

Woodys Bike Goodies & T.Whites Bikes presents; The Bootleg Hustle Alley Cat, with prizes T-Level and the GC’s Woody and Tim at the helm should be a bloody good event, get into it!

BW/18/01/2012

hdotthinks — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:49:42 +1300

Couple of clicks from this weeks mission out south, another good 50km+ ride with a couple of roadies in the mix. Oh and the Burger Fuel in Manukau sucks, really, ask Jeff.

Are shakes on the go a good idea?

A man by the name of Jay who as been floating around for a little bit in the Auckland bike community came with this week, this is his Colnago… its pretty fricken rad!

So Bad-Rad had a bit of an accident the other night, and had to...

hereshale — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:43:09 +1300

So Bad-Rad had a bit of an accident the other night, and had to exchange his arm for a bionic one (screws included).

How bad ass in this x-ray scan though? Too good.

Get well soon homie.

Big Wednesday : Kits & Clips

hdotthinks — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:46:29 +1300

So last year we did a few Wednesday night rides on a slightly larger scale than normal in training for the 100l Rotorua/Taupo race.

These were well enjoyed by most, so for the first ‘Big Wednesday’ of 2012 Kenny and I decided to change it up a bit and bring in ‘Kits & Clips’ so larger rides with cleats and lycra for that inner roadie in all of us that we don’t like to tell people exists.

We started off small this time with a 50ish KM ride out to Manukau and home via The Airport and Onehunga.

Nice evenings for riding we have at the moment, get out and enjoy them!

TFT/10/01/12

hdotthinks — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:12:30 +1300

First Tank Farm Tuesday of the new year okay weather brought a few people out for a social spin, from what I hear we missed some super shitty weather when we were in Fiji so most of country prop aint been riding much, well aside from the real hard core MF’s!

Mike Zombie brought out his GT, this has to be the one and only in New Zealand, ever, amazing build Mike! Full write up to come?

Kenny has almost got levitating on lock…

Even our dear old friend Jeff (SR) came out for a spin, good to see you on a track bike again buddy!

Snacks on snacks on snacks!

Clay from stuckylife ran into some of our homies Ken white and...

conradsmith — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:37:43 +1300

Clay from stuckylife ran into some of our homies Ken white and Mike Davies at the mini drome in Vancouver a few months ago. He recently touched base and we got some stickers out to the flip side of the globe for him. It’s always rad connecting the dots around the world. Check their blog here.

Randomly stumbled upon this little gem of a personalised plate...

hdotthinks — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:40:24 +1300

Randomly stumbled upon this little gem of a personalised plate this afternoon, a little gutted its on a Nissan Terrano and not a Bugatti or some other VAG fam vehicle but non the less entertaining.

CGK X FIJI

hdotthinks — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:43:14 +1300

Mega photo post…

Conrad found a cat.

And then another cat.

But Baxter found a real cat…

As you can see it was an amazingly serious cycling vacation and alot of progress was made!

Fiji riding was lets say ‘interesting’ with the...

hdotthinks — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:38:00 +1300

Fiji riding was lets say ‘interesting’ with the temperature at mid 30’s celsius and 90-100% humidity.

We don’t really get those sorts of conditions in Auckland so we did take it a little on the mellow side, but hey that fixed gear its just for getting to the coffee shop any way aint it?

Or to the bar with free WiFi as it may be in this case…

The roads on the island were pretty good, a bunch of speed bumps but that happens, on the main land it was another story so we figured we would keep it lazy as its a summer holiday after all and keep to the island.

I am although rather saddened by the fact we never made it to…

“#1 Scene Cafe” surely this would be the perfect hangout for the fixxaay conscious traveler, unfortunately we never made it there, probably because smangin’ piccolo’s in 40c and 100% humidity just doesn’t sound like fun at all.

Traveling with oversized luggage is always fun from getting...

hdotthinks — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:00:11 +1300

Traveling with oversized luggage is always fun from getting massive board bags off planes onto trains onto monorails onto ferries and back again, I have enjoyed it. This being the first time I personally flew with a bike I gained a few gems of knowledge, box’s work yes but maybe some more padding etc would avoid scratches and the other thing was just don’t look like Baxter as his bags were searched at every chance! Too many snacks on snack on snacks.

Fiji X Fixxaayyy

hdotthinks — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:57:53 +1300

Fiji X Fixxaayyy

Boxes packed, Bags packed, Some of The CGK and The CGG are...

hdotthinks — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:22:00 +1300

Boxes packed, Bags packed, Some of The CGK and The CGG are heading to Fiji tomorrow morning for a slightly warmer new years holiday! Should be fun, sweltering heat and really shitty island roads, perfect! Tour de Fiji…. or maybe just Denarau!

The CGG’s Jenna Makgill smashing the Homer Tunnel down in...

hdotthinks — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:24:00 +1300

The CGG’s Jenna Makgill smashing the Homer Tunnel down in the dirty south.

Rad web edit from an amazingly gnarly part of beloved New Zealand with some top notch riding from Jenna, nice work!