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The Great Ocean Road
Read more →From Melbourne if you want to go to an ocean beach you pretty much have two options. Go down the Peninsular towards Sorrento and Portsea or head South-West past Geelong to the surf coast and Great Ocean Road. We have done a few rides in the hills behind Lorne and Erskine Falls before but nothing actually on the Great Ocean Road itself. Ray was staying at a friends house in Aireys Inlet for a few days midweek so Martin, Flynn and myself (Hal) decided to drive down on Wednesday morning after a night of track racing at DISC, to meet...
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Odd Dots
Read more →A few months ago during one of our very informal design discussions, Hal showed us a some patterns he had been working on. They were clearly a step away from his traditional, tattoo inspired motifs that we have been using since we started. We were looking at four A4 pages laid end to end on the table, each with a different series of hand drawn primitive dots. Our first thought was that they were cool, bold and absolutely reflected the HBC aesthetic and our next thought was how quickly could we add them to the collection.Odd Dots is available in short sleeve, long sleeve and our signature short sleeve track skin...
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5 Days In Korea
Read more →Ray, Harry, Martin, Ferg and myself (Hal) returned from the USA in early May uncertain of the future of Red Hook Crit (RHC) and facing a long cold winter in Melbourne. At this stage dates for any future RHC events had not been announced and we were on the lookout for track bike crits we could race. We had heard about King Of Track (KOT) in Korea but again, a 2018 date hadn't been announced. We were essentially in a holding pattern. Finally KOT announced a date and immediately Kevin from Engine 11 and Haeng, KOT Director asked if we...
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The HBC Studio
Read more →Take a look through the HBC Studio, our showroom, clubhouse and workspace. Enjoy!
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Tracklocross Returns To Mt Beauty
Read more →Tracklocross returns to Mt Beauty for another year. Just down the valley from our home in the Kiewa Valley, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to enjoy a weekend of racing and riding in one of Australia’s most beautiful locations. Potentially finding a loophole in the rules, Hal decided to race his fixed gear gravel machine in the Open category for another year. The Open race is for people who want to ride a bike that is not a CX bike. Some pretty heavy rain on Friday night made for a wet, muddy and fun course for racing on Saturday. ...
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RED HOOK CRIT BROOKLYN 2018
Read more →Red Hook Crit 2018 is done. The day started with a slow roll over a mist cloaked Williamsburg bridge and along the waterfront to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. For Hal and Ray this was their third trip to the race, Harry and Fergus their second and for Martin everything about this type of racing in the states was new. It was the culmination of 12 months of training and racing and we had travelled a very long way to ride in this bike race. Racing started early and on a new layout the pace was very very sharp. There...