The autumn is starting to make an appearance and organisers of the Chain Reaction Cycles Mountain Bike Marathon Series powered by Mercedes-Benz Vito Sport been working hard since the last round of the 2011 series to tie down locations and dates for the 2012 series. All the events will be double events again in 2012 with either […]
Archives for October 2011
SRAM Singletrack Mind Series: Riders Rate New Venue at Rydal
A great new venue greeted riders for round 6 of the SRAM Singletrack Mind Series at the village of Rydal near Lithgow. With the Central Tablelands mountain bike club having to seek a new area for riding due to logging, they moved to the southern side of the Great Western Highway and have developed a […]
Croc Trophy Stage 10: The never ending struggle
Starke – Cooktown: 128km The last day, and we were all ready for it. Last night was later than expected, as dinner was delayed, and therefore the race presentation to celebrate Graeme´s fabulous 2nd place was skipped. Talk abounded of a Gentlemans Agreement for the last stage. We had heard this was customary, […]
Croc Trophy Stage 9: Queen Stage, and 2nd place for Biscuit
Kalpowar – Starke. 148km, 600m Day nine. At this point we were well into a longer stage race than any of us on the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team had done before. Various TransAlps, the ABSA Cape Epic, iterations of the Sudety MTB Challenge, Scody Cups – none of those go beyond eight days in their current […]
Croc Trophy Stage 8: Maddog on the Podium
Laura to Kalpowar: 89km, 200m By the numbers, today could be an easy stage. After the two previous days of torture, a relatively flat sub 100km day was greeted happily by all of us on the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team. It even allowed for a slightly easier day for our Super Team Support crew, Pete Figg, with […]
Arnott places second in Queen Stage
In the Queen Stage of the 17th edition of the Crocodile Throphy, Subaru-MarathonMTB’s Graeme (Biscuit) Arnott stomps home in second place. Not the longest but without any doubt the technically hardest stage had race leader Jeroen Boelen’s name written all over it. The Dutch Milka-Trek rider arrived in Starke some ten minutes earlier than the […]
The Croc lives up to its name
Former Slipstream/Garmin rider Huub Duyn stage winner in the midst of bush fires and crocodiles. Good that the Normanby River, in which the infamous Queensland’s saltwater crocodiles where sighted just a few days ago, separated the raging bush fires from the finish area or the stage would have had to be neutralized today. After a […]
End-of-season frolics
While my Antipodean team-mates are tearing it up in the Croc Trophy and heading towards summer, the nights in London are drawing in. It is definitely time to stop racing, unless you are one of those strange people who likes racing a barely modified road bike around a muddy field all winter. More of that […]
Singletrack Mind Round 6: Skills Sharpening.
With less than three weeks until the pinnacle of the domestic marathon season, MarathonMTB.com headed out to the latest round of the Singletrack Mind series in search of form-finding. What we found was a plethora of wild singletrack. If you have been looking for a course to practice your technique then Rydal/Lidsdale should feature […]
Sokoll takes out a tactic filled Stage 7
Christoph Sokoll one year after terrible billabong crash / Bernhard Eisel’s training mate wins in Laura. Christoph Sokoll had made a name for himself in cycling already by riding 190km in the front as a first year elite in the 2009 Mendrisio World Championship, which was won by Cadel Evans. Now the mountain bikers know […]