The results merry-go-round at the top of the leaderboard continued at the Langkawi International MTB Challenge on stage 3, with Australia’s Lachlan Norris (Giant Global Factory Offroad Team) topping the podium. Johnny Cattaneo (Full-Dynamix) went one better than his stage 2 result to claim second today, while yesterday’s stage winner, Karl Platt, finished third. Platt’s […]
Archives for October 2011
Expanded Ritchey Oktoberfest a resounding success
What a weekend and what a great ending to the Mountain Bike Season 2011. After a hugely popular Ritchey Bikefest in June this year expectations were high for the 2nd outing of the Ritchey Oktoberfest, which for the first time would use the newly finished course in Ashton Court in Bristol. And to cut a […]
Croc Trophy Stage 3: Fast and Furious
This mornings start was again wet wet wet. Rumours of a polite neutral first 35km were quashed by race organisers on the start line. Hence, it was flag drop and race on from the bog fest that was Koomboolooba campsite. Soon into this stage the flag was not the only thing that was getting dropped […]
Sauser and Knox on a charge in South Africa
Christoph Sauser and Max Knox of 36One-Songho.Info repeated their victory of 24-hours earlier with yet another impressive stage win on day three of the DCM Cape Pioneer Trek. The pair broke away from “all the usual suspects” to consolidate their comeback campaign on the overall classification – which was dented significantly by their comedy of […]
Platt turns the table on Stander in Langkawi
Team Bulls rider Karl Platt reversed the result of the opening stage of the 2011 Langkawi International MTB Challenge to snatch the overall lead from South Africa’s Burry Stander. Platt closed out the cross-country stage of the event in 1:30:26, with Stander (Specialized Factory Racing) finishing two minutes later. Johnny Cataneo of Full-Dynamix finishing third, […]
Huber too strong in Queensland
It took only the imposing to Mount Baldy at the beginning of the stage for Swiss marathon champion Urs Huber to gain a significant gap on the first day of racing at the 2011 Crocodile Trophy. For the rest of the stage, some 70 lonesome kilometers, he was able to keep and even to increase […]
Rain again lashes Croc Trophy, but racing begins
Torrential rain hit the Crocodile Trophy for a second day in a row on Wednesday, creating havoc for race organisers who were able to re-route the course in order to allow racing to begin after Tuesday’s neutralised stage. The downpour meant that communication of stage results is likely to be delayed until tomorrow, however we […]
Sauser and Knox hit back in South Africa
By winning the second stage of the DCM Pioneer Trek, Max Knox (Ghost) and Christoph Sauser (Songo.info) proved that you can’t keep a good team down. In what is undoubtedly one of the tour’s toughest stages, they managed to ride away from the rest of the riders with a display of almost faultless mountain biking. […]
Brentjens out of Crocodile Trophy
For two months it hadn’t rained in Cairns. And then on the opening day of the 17th Crocodile Trophy, not only did it start to rain, but torrential downpours lashed across the Cairns and Tablelands Regions. With riders battling nature’s forces, Olympic Champion and last year’s runner up Bart Brentjens withdrawing from the race due […]
Stander takes control at Langkawi MTB Challenge
South Africa’s Burry Stander (Specialized Factory Racing) claimed the opening stage of the 2011 Langkawi International MTB Challenge ahead of the Team Bulls pair of Karl Platt and Thomas Dietsch. Stander prevailed in a sprint to the line with Platt, with the two closing out the stage in 2:24:20. French champion Dietsch finshed two minutes in arrears […]