Well, its time to get serious… well, sort of serious… ok not as slack as I have been!

I’ve been riding since about 2001 and really started to get into racing in 2005 – my first race was the 2005 NZo 12hr. A mate and I foolishly decided to race as a pair (how hard could it be?) of course he subsequently fell off and broke his hand on his first lap and I decided to continue on as a solo. After a world of pain for the next 9 hours or so I was hooked on this silly sport of endurance racing. Read the rest of this entry »

The 26inches.com magazine ran bi-monthly over 8 issues. The first, and still the only, of its kind in Australia, it was based on a mix of written, video and interactive articles. Starting as a web based magazine, it progressed to CD and finally DVD for its last issue. It was ceased as the readership was ultimately not enough to sustain it’s increasing production costs and there was little desire by those involved to do a more traditional print based magazine.

CD 3 symbolised that we were getting comfortable with the medium and we feel was one of the best. This was the last of the CD-R deliveries as after this point we decided to take it a step further and move to an interactive DVD format.

Be warned:

This is the whole CD and nothing’s been cut down. The video content is big, 80Mb+, so it’s best looked at on a big pipe connection.

The presentation uses pop up windows.

The site is housed in a Flash wrapper, so make sure your browser is capable of seeing Flash files.

Written articles are delivered in Acrobat.

[Click here to launch CD3]

The 26inches.com magazine ran bi-monthly over 8 issues. The first, and still the only, of its kind in Australia, it was based on a mix of written, video and interactive articles. Starting as a web based magazine, it progressed to CD and finally DVD for its last issue. It was ceased as the readership was ultimately not enough to sustain it’s increasing production costs and there was little desire by those involved to do a more traditional print based magazine.

CD 2 was a vast improvement on #1 in terms of delivery as we figured out the medium and delivery format

Be warned:

This is the whole CD and nothing’s been cut down. The video content is big, 80Mb+, so it’s best looked at on a big pipe connection.

The presentation uses pop up windows.

The site is housed in a Flash wrapper, so make sure your browser is capable of seeing Flash files.

Written articles are delivered in Acrobat.

[Click here to launch CD2]