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Sick and tired of glossy magazines with photoshopped celebs telling you to buy impossibly priced products? Modern ambassadorial marketing is just not cricket. We want to find honest, real people who are passionate about their sport in a way that reflects our honest approach business, the environment and life we have at Rapanui.
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Living on an island, the sea is never far away. One great thing about Britain is the quite unique marine environment and the variety of marine life that, in the same sentence, is one of the worst things about our country: the way we treat it.
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Surfing on the Isle of Wight has become a unique culture of fin-out maniacs mixing with canoes, longboarders and SUPs around the limited coastline, but very few of us would have realised just quite the surfing heritage our Island has until recently.
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A simple concept - nip over to france on the ferry, get a lift to the top of the mountain and get back home, by bike, as fast as possible. James Ioannou and Harry Steele feature in Red Bike Blue Bike had a race, our take on the classic commercial.
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Turns out that in space there's a load of stuff flying about and tonight some of it is going to collide with us - but think more 'guy fawkes night' than 'independance day' - the result is going to be a spectacular display of shooting stars across the sky.
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Bike polo - adj. - 'a sport reserved for only the ubercool - people so rad it almost makes you feel sick.' This is particularly true of Nico and the crew over at Fixed Gear Extravaganza, online mecca for the fixed gear bike world.
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We were there for the ride with Rapanui’s bike-chomping James Ioannou and his footman Alex Cavaciuti at the Freesports Park. The boys were invited by the X-works ramp building company to do some demo's for the revellers.
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This year has been a bit of a scoop season for Rapanui in the wake of our Traceability and Eco-labelling initiatives, designed to help people shop quickly, with a conscience.
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Whilst the worlds media focus on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, another spill off China's northeast coast has gone largely unnoticed. Workers have resorted to using their bare hands and are struggling to contain the spill, investigators have said.
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We're pretty keen on a spot of downhill skateboarding. It's a sport reserved for those of us unskilled and unwilling to get hospitalised on ramps and rails but keen to make up for it by travelling at motorway speeds on what is essentially a childrens toy.
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