Mushypea interview on EscapeTheCity.Org
The good guys at Escape the city in the UK are doing some great work inspiring young professionals (and the not so young in my case!) to bite the bullet and “Escape the corporate mainstream and Do Something Different”.
I was thrilled to be interviewed for their site a couple of weeks ago. At first I [...]
A cycling legend visits Sydney
It’s great meeting a hero, someone you’ve followed and been inspired by for years. Swiss born Beat Heim visited Sydney two weeks ago on the last part of his Asian Odyssey bicycle trip, a two year long, 50000 km epic that started in Mongolia in 2008.
Mushypea enters the Mont24 movie festival
Thanks to some great feedback on the full length Gulf2Gulf DVD, I thought I’d enter a shortened version in to the Mont24 film festival to see how she goes. It’s the first time I’ve entered a film competition so I’m sure it will be a great learning curve for me. I’m not sure when I’ll [...]
The Dirty Nomad e-magazines
Over the next few weeks I’ll be popping some of my published and unpublished features on this site for any cyclists out there who might be interested in planning their own long distance off road mountain biking adventure. Some of the e-zines will be straight out of the magazines and I hope to find some [...]
Gulf2Gulf goes full length
After almost a year the final cut of the Gulf2Gulf DVD came hot off the mac production line last night. If anyone is thinking of doing this trip (I know there a few) then let me know and I’d be happy to pop a copy in the post.
The DVD is split into two parts, [...]
DP&D publish ‘Traveling Light’
Packing a photographic punch, without packing the kitchen sink
Digital Photography & Design publish ‘Traveling Light’, a short guide to taking photographs on (or should I say ‘off‘) the road with a compact camera.
Here’s what’s covered:
Profiling
Using the Interval Mode
MiniPods – 3″ lifesavers!
Don’t give up on JPG; it’s a lot less messy than RAW
Camera & Battery storage [...]
Kona COG publish
Kona Mountain Bike’s funky new blog, COG, features a primer of the Tour de Timor story this week and can be seen on the following link; http://cog.konaworld.com/archives/1646
Here’s a photo I took of Team Kona Australia rider Campbell Townsend on the King of the Mountain (KOM) on stage 4. Melbourne based rider Campbell rode his Kona [...]
SMH use mushypea photo
Check this out, Ivan makes the front page of the Online Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)! 20 seconds into the video, we can see Ivan during stage 1 riding along the coast from Dili to Baucau.
If you look carefully around 2 min 40s you’ll see a still shot in the video. Jock Cheetham, a [...]
Sydney: Green, Global & Connected
The former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore MP and SMH Editor Peter Fray were among the speakers taking part in a talk last night on Sydney’s transport issues and what we can do now to plan for a city in 2030.
With a state election in 79 weeks, NSW Lord Mayor [...]
The Best of British! Peaty takes the Worlds in Canberra!
Sometimes I can get a bit proud to be British, and this is one of those moments. I didn’t even check the World’s results as I thought Sam H would’ve got it, but no, GB’s Mr Peat wrapped it up after 15 yrs and got the gong at 35yrs old! LEGEND
And this interview almost had [...]
Mushypea gets on Track (.org.nz)
Planning on riding in NZ but don’t know where to start? Well check out this cool site documenting the intricate trail network around the north and south island of our neighbours across the pond. This great site dedicated to trails in NZ is using a mushypea (YouTube mu5hype4) video clip to help give an idea [...]
Mushypea on Ricoh’s Facebook page
Mushypea is featured on the Ricoh Facebook site.
Click on the photo below to head straight there ….
“Dave Turner is an Adventure Cyclist and Freelance writer/photographer. He writes and photographs his journeys for mountain bike magazines in the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand, hoping to inspire others to grab their bikes and go in search [...]
Reviews on Ricoh GRD III
The Age
Click here for the review from the Age
“The camera incorporates the extended dynamic range function. Two images are captured almost simultaneously at different exposures and merged in the camera to give better detail in highlights and shadows.
Image quality is reliably good. Ricoh is not in the pixel wars, favouring better image quality over pixel [...]
Mushypea gives Verofit product feedback
Here is a short feedback post on the Verofit blog on the awesome products we used on the Gulf2Gulf ride back in April. We used a combination of bars and powders to get us through the Birdsville Track.
http://www.verofit.com.au/articles/?p=56
New HD CMOS handle bar/helmet mounted video camera
I met with Tasco for the first time since Christmas when they helped us out for the Gulf2Gulf. I was showed a sneak preview of a new CMOS HD video camera aimed at the mountain bike market. I saw a demo version, it wasn’t even on display to trades people so I was [...]
PMA Tradeshow
The PMA tradeshow was this weekend, some cool stuff but some same old same old stuff too. All the usuals were there, Apple, Adobe, Canon, Nikon, Sony and lots of print stands!
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The highlights for me were meeting with the guys from Yaffa Publishing who’ll be running a story I wrote for the August edition [...]
Digital Photography & Design story sent off
The guys at Yaffa Digital Media received our G2G story this week. This story was really challenging to write, coming at the Gulf2Gulf from a photographic perspective.
I talked a little about how pro-sumer level compact cameras have changed since their ‘point and shoot’ beginnings and some of the photographic challenges we overcame on the G2G [...]
Photo Marketing Association (PMA) trade show; Gulf2Gulf review of GX200
Last week Tasco got in touch asking us to sum up in one sentence everything we like about the GX200 camera to be used at the up coming PMA show. We used this very special camera for the trip across Australia on the Gulf2Gulf with a GX8 for backup.
I’m currently writing a review of the [...]
www.ricoh.com publish Birdsville Track Photo
Ricoh publish the Southern Cross photo taken on the Birdsville Track on the monthly user report section of their website.
www.ricoh.com
howies brainfood
I was having an internet catch up after the trip and noticed how similar one of howies T’s was to a shot we took on the Birdsville Track, check out their MySpace T.
I’ve been a customer of howies since forever so it’s really cool to have a photo on their site. The brainfood chapter of [...]
Article updates
Australian Mountain Bike (AMB) magazine were originally going to run our story in next months issue but the story ran over the word count (doh) so rather than cut it, the Ed suggested running the full length in the following issue with some shots from the camera too!
Last week I had two surprise emails, one [...]
Happy Traveling :)
A friend from Trailfinders UK (thanks Nic) flicked this on, he’s been doing this for years and years and just got on an AMEX ad!
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Orikaso Cup – I can’t figure it out!
Check out these puppies! Fold up plates, bowls and cups from Orikaso. Andy put me onto them – they seem like a great idea, flat pack, easy to clean and so forth. I spent 10 minutes trying to work out how to put the cup together and figured it was actually better to pour hot [...]
Truvativ or Race Face?
During the Tibet trip, I hairline fractured my bottom bracket. It was cool to ride without stress but needed replacing when I got back. It turned out to be cheaper to get a whole new crank and BB from Truvativ rather than replace the race face BB. Thing is, can I [...]
