Image: Courtesy of Andy, Fyxomatosis. Circa 2010 The Melburn Bicycle Swap Meet is on! Saturday 2 October 20109am for sellers / 10am-12pm for buyers. $5 to sell / free to buy and haggleNew and Old, Used and Abused. BMX, Road, Track, Fixed, Vintage, Classic, Retro.Bike parts, frames, clothing, coffee and cakes. 24-28 Grosvenor St, Abbotsford.  

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Image: Courtesy of Canada, Collingrove. Circa 2010 Ok gravity junkies, the moment you've all been waiting for is almost here. The inaugural Collingrove Cup organised by the South Australian Gravity Riders Association is only 11 days away!! If you haven't registered then you need to pull your finger out and get a typing. The Collingrove Cup is a downhill event featuring gravity bikes, street luge, skateboarding, downhill wheelchair and drift bikes. So bust out that VB money tin you've had since...

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Image: Courtesy of The Fix Fix Fix Oscar Wilde once said "Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty". We so agree! Welcome to hump day! Ema meet GBHQ, GBHQ meet Ema!

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Image: Courtesy Ladies of Longboarding, circa 2010. Breast cancer is the cancer that kills the most women worldwide, affecting approximately one million women. The Ladies of Longboarding are committed to reducing deaths caused by breast cancer, by raising funds to support breast cancer research in a super sexy, fun and tasteful way. Following the great example of Rylstone Womens’ Institute, (The film Calendar Girls, staring Hellen Mirren was about their ground breaking calendar), to...

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Image: Courtesy of The Fix Fix Fix So over the last few weeks we have been bombarded with emails telling us how risqué our hump day hotties were getting and that we should take a cold shower and cool down a bit! And while we have never been ones to shy away from a little controversy we did understand the need to balance our love of women with our love of bikes and perhaps bring you something a little more conservative. Can you believe it?! We actually entertained the thought! Shame on...

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Image: Courtesy of the Humble Vintage Bike Hire Co. We love well designed and well made things, particularly when there's a bike involved. So when we saw this little urban runabout we immediately thought that the Dutch must be involved. Sure enough, simple design, well executed, how very dutch indeed. VANMOOF is an ambitious young Dutch company that originated out of love for bicycles and a hunger for change. With a talented young development team and a fresh business approach, VANMOOF pursues...

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Image: Courtesy of the Humble Vintage Bike Hire Co. Circa 2010. EVERY now and then it is nice to read some good news about Melbourne and cycling enthusiast Matthew Hurst is happy to provide it. Mr Hurst rents out restored bikes with detailed city cycling routes in his quarterly newsletter Melbourne for Visitors and Casual Cyclists. The newsletter has a positive message: "Welcome, Melbourne is a long way from anywhere. Thank God it's a wonderful place to be." The winter guide details cycling to...

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Image: Courtesy of The Fix Fix Fix Hey, wait a minute! What's that over there?! Can you see it just around the corner? Look its coming right at you! HUMP DAY!!!!. We love hump day as much as many of you out there love the combination of bikes and the female form. So, quite down in the back you lot... Rocky meet GBHQ, GBHQ meet Rocky!

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Image: Industrial designer Ryan David Francis. Circa 2010. Looking for a new way to get that Gravity Bike of yours off road? Well look no further. Industrial designer Ryan David Francis has come up with this little puppy. While its not really a gravity bike, it is powered by an electric motor, and receives its juice from the photovoltaic solar cells on the upper back portion of the vehicle's windscreen, making it look like an electric bike with a giant roof on top, which should help you keep a...

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Image: Courtesy of Deus Ex Machina, Circa 2010. Ladies and genitals, dust off your Whitworths and recalibrate your King Dongs in readiness. It's time to close your eyes and imagine a happy place, a place without boundaries where old American iron crossbreeds with 80s Japanese sport monsters. Where a rigid rear XR600 is a perfectly good idea and we really can't think why Honda didn't do it in the first place. Deus Ex Machina has established a contest of creativity and resourcefulness: the victor...

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