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January 2020 saw a surprise entrant at a Tuesday night club criterium: Valtteri Bottas. Here’s the strange story of why he was there, and how my photos ended up in a Finnish lifestyle magazine.

We caught up with Olas Designs whose GH Bike Racks are the most beautiful way to show off your beautiful bike

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Nathan Haas to talk Tour Down Under, revisionist history, Strava, and Harry Potter dressups. It was awesome!

The new Orbis, Code and Essence from Baum.There's so much goodness here I almost don't know where to start.

So the huge event of the year is rapidly approaching. Father’s Day. I check out some tasty accessories...

We recently caught up with Kelvin Rundle, the man working hard behind the scenes as the team owner, primary sponsor and Directeur Sportif of National Road Series team Roxsolt-Attaquer

Check out some sweet new Australian made steel frames.

It's A'qto's 10th birthday and they're giving away 10 custom kit's worth A$3,500. This is a good one.

The Australian automotive industry is on its knees... but it's not all bad. Check out the reinvention of the bike rack.

Forging their niche in the Aussie glorious domestic scene. 

Getting more women on bikes and interested in track cycling.

Cycling fashionistas. Lumiere have built quite a following with their patterns and palette.

Producing a high quality, classic and timeless kit... They are also two of the best blokes you'll meet.

For day 5, I spoke to modern Renaissance man Nathaniel Peek, the brains (and all other body parts) behind Spin Cycle Clothing. He's a man of rare intelligence, talent, and a solid gold nice dude.  He's also a relentless designer with an amazing eye for shapes and patterns.

I headed back to Melbourne for Day 4 of Aussie kit week, and spoke to Pedla's artist-in-residence Marcin. He has a different and fascinating approach to designing cycling kit and you can see that in their designs. I dig Pedla and I dug it even more after talking to Marcin.

Today we check in with newcomers to the kit game Biketivist. The Adelaide-based setup sure knows how to turn heads and rattle cages with their kit. Remember their name, we reckon they're gonna do well in the Aussie kit scene. We chatted to Juan Briceno about his brand.

Day 2 of Aussie kit week features John Polson from Black Sheep. This Queensland brand has grown incredibly fast in a short period. 

We believe Australia's cycling kit industry is the best in the world. We are spoilt with so many great brands producing quality kits. We wanted to run a campaign highlighting just how much passion and talent there is behind the Aussie kit industry so we reached out to some of the top quality people behind the brands to find out what makes them tick.

Spin Cycle Clothing is a brand that mixes bold aesthetics with a commitment to high quality and performance. I spent some time with founder and modern Renaissance man Nathaniel Peek to talk about his rapidly growing brand, and found out just how unbelievably talented this guy really is.

Dario and Paul struck cycling gold when they found 32 unridden or re-conditioned Columbus SLX frames while exploring bike shops in Treviso, Italy.

A Port Adelaide warehouse is the home of Rogers Bespoke, South Australia’s only commercial steel frame builder. The one-man operation is the brainchild of James Alderson, a man committed to mixing the best modern frame-building techniques with the bicycle’s oldest frame material. The results are some of the most beautiful bikes putting rubber to the road.

Perhaps this is something I should have done sooner. It's the why behind La Velocita. Why did it start, why the name, why the approach, what's your background, why, why, why. People have been asking me these questions a lot recently, so here it all is...

Roaming the roads and trails of Adelaide is an extraordinary bike. It’s an Open U.P., the revolutionary bike that can take mountain bike and road/cyclocross wheels.

This particular bike has been built to an impossibly high standard. I met the owner, the bike, and the builder so I could tell the story of this sublime machine. To protect the owner’s privacy, I refer to him as Mr LMA (Luckiest Man Alive) for reasons that will be very obvious.

In a quiet unit block in Adelaide's eastern suburbs is the workshop of Buck!t belts creator, Craig Northam. On the surface, Buck!t converts used bicycle tyres into belts, watch straps and wallets. 

Why be normal?  If you want it bad enough then set yourself unrealistic goals, push yourself to the limit and then go out and achieve it.  

That’s the motto of Leeana-Kate James, an up and coming road and track cyclist that has just signed to the team WhyBeNormal? She's moving across to Milan to race fixed and road bikes, designing cycling apparel and generally doing rad stuff.