Vintage Cycling t-shirts

-- A little Christmas something for the rabid motorist in your life

Chopper Guard product head-to-head

-- Leppin Sport Squeezy Vs PowerBar GEL

Tamaki Drive goes T2

-- Back in the vehicular firing line

It was a cycle commuter haven – a warm current running parallel to the impatient line of cold hard nose-to-tail steel. The 2km bus/commuter lane between the Tamaki Yacht Club and the perilous Ngapipi Road intersection was a fine place for the rush hour cyclist.

For sure, an ear was kept out for an infrequent Nifty-Fifty and a bus or two, which I must say always treated cyclists with great care.

And what a place, that lane, to safely observe the habits of queue humping drivers: texting so few young female drivers can resist; the middle-aged accountant’s deftly folded newspaper for hands-free steering wheel presentation; and the constant detainment by one’s own rear view mirror reflection. And of course Lipstick. Apply it at 25kmh, no problem.

Driving sins they are, but more threatening to front running drivers than to cyclists minding their own business in the neighbouring lane.

But the 2km burst of rush hour cycling freedom has been snatched away.

The big white T2 tells me the lane is now accepting rush hour cars (for two hours, 7-9 a.m., and only cars carrying at least one passenger) and rabid taxi drivers.

Now what for the work-commuting cyclist? Back in the vehicular firing line, that’s what.

For long stretches there is no shoulder for safe passing.

Cars freshly liberated from their jam will revel in the clear space of T2.

In this lane cars will travel much faster – the press release says “several minutes faster”. All 250 of them every hour.

Please be nice.

Truck driver Desmond Wilson sentenced for killing cyclist

-- You may have missed the two column centimetres

The final chapter of senior police officer Steve Fitzgerald’s life closed earlier this month in the Wellington District Court, where truck driver Desmond Wilson was found guilty of causing the death of Superintendent Fitzgerald through careless driving.

Judge Tom Broadmore said he was satisfied that Wilson had diverted his attention from the road and that Mr Fitzgerald was visible.

Wilson was ordered to pay Fitzgerald’s family $2000 "emotional" reparation and banned from driving for nine months.

People’s champion McCauley tweets China triumph

-- Epic bowel movement eclipses Tour of Hainan fourth place

Subway Avanti rider, five times New Zealand road cycling champion and self proclaimed champion of the people (which people we’re not sure), Gordon McCauley recently finished fourth on General Classification in the UCI2.HC Tour of Hainan, China.

However, it turns out his penultimate summit push was in a toilet at the Hong Kong International Airport.

Cycling Sauce: Chopper Guard Bicycle Lovelies

-- November Sauce – The over achieving Australian glamour puss mountain biker chic

Australian mountain biker, graphic designer, model and artist Niki Gudex’s world championship mountain biking achievements are dwarfed by her expertly promoted sex appeal.

Nothing sells like sex, as they say. Just ask Oakley, Scott bikes, and Castelli cycling apparel, which were so taken by Niki's facets that they each appointed her as global brand ambassador.

White Mofo range extended

-- Chopper Guard wMOFO™ T-shirt range extended

Yesterday, in Parnell, Auckland, the suburb favoured by well-healed white mofos, Chopper Guard launched its wMOFO™ T-shirts.

The response has been tremendous and the first print run (10) has sold out.

Not to worry, the sweatshop is winding back into life as I write.

We’ve also taken the opportunity to expand our range.

‘Ngati white mofo’ (above) for those who really identify with their whiteness.

And (below), for the angry cyclist-hating motorist in the family (most families have one or two), ‘I love cycling mofos’