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Burry Stander became the first South African to win the ABSA Cape Epic when he and Swiss teammate, Christoph Sauser, racing for 36One-Songo-Specialized raced to a dominant win in the world’s most prestigious mountain bike stage race one year ago. The 2012 edition of the eight-day race starts in Durbanville, in South Africa’s Western Cape […]
With the ABSA Cape Epic travel epic out of the way, and the ensuing recovery process underway, Will Hayter and myself have begun the count down to the start of our race day: 8:07am on Sunday 25th March. We will take to the start ramp at Meerendal Wine Estate for the 27km prologue with 900m […]
The crew behind the CRC MTB marathon series have gone digital for 2012. For the first time they have not gone down the ‘printing it on paper’ route but decided to create an interactive flip-book version (ISSUU). For hopefully everybody to enjoy the guidebook they have the put up a few versions, which should work on pretty […]
Last year wasn’t a good one for finishing big races – a broken collarbone brought an end to team-mate Mike Blewitt’s and my Absa Cape Epic campaign in 2011, and then my Craft Bike Transalp was cut short by a bunch of highly professional Italian thieves half-inching my lovely Scott Spark. The silver lining […]
Subaru are supporting a massive number of teams and events. So many that the whole list doesn’t even make it onto the screen grab of the Subaru Active website. What did make it though is the beginning of the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com team page. Keep an eye on it to see how it develops over the next […]
A very familiar line from a familiar song, to most. The jungle of Australian mountain biking, with it’s thick canopy of events will be a difficult one to negotiate this year with the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com. There is just so much racing that hand picking a calendar of events for the year has been a daunting task. Although if […]
And here we go again – finally! Australia doesn’t lack for Marathon Mountain Biking opportunities, with a plethora of classic races, and an ever growing calendar of Stage Races. But is racing somewhere within a days drive enough to satiate a desire for new experiences? Probably, for some. That’s how I started finding a love […]
The LineBreak CalfGuards are what you wear when you’re so stuffed you can’t pull your shorts off to put on the full length tights. Or at least, that’s one of the uses for this garment. They’re also a good alternative to LineBreak’s compression tights in hotter weather. This has made them an attractive summer and […]
In a sport like cycling, the fitter you get the longer and more frequent training rides tend to become. As such, it’s easy to forget the importance of recovery in making the performance gains you’re after. LineBreak products assist recovery through compression after exercise, reducing muscle vibration during sport and by helping with temperature regulation […]
While relaxing in the departure lounge of the Brisbane international airport, content once again to have beaten the excess baggage boogeyman I realized that traveling with a bike is real art. The airlines are tough with their baggage allowances and now they are becoming more vigilant at enforcing said allowance, so we have to get […]
