Just about one month before the official registration for the 16th edition of the Alps classic opens online on www.bike-transalp.de, SIGMA SPORT has secured the presenter title for the world’s toughest mountain bike stage race which now trades under the name Craft BIKE Transalp powered by Sigma. The producer of technical gear for both amateur […]
Archives for November 2012
Transandes Challenge 2013
The Transandes Challenge is a six stage mountain bike race through the spectacular landscapes of the southern Patagonian Andes Mountain Range in Chile. 21 January 2013 will see the start of the fifth edition of the epic mountain bike race in Patagonia. Racers will set off from the Huilo Huilo Private Reserve which covers more […]
The Roc hits the French Alps in 2013
The popular and well attended Roc d’Azur is a a huge mountain bike festival that holds events for all sorts of mountain bike enthusiasts and professionals, with an Enduro, Cross Country, Dirt Jump contest and a huge expo. This style of event is now moving inland, away from the beaches and into the French Alps. […]
Old Mutual joBerg2c launches Red Bull Runs
In a first for international off-road racing on the southern tip of Africa, the 2013 edition of the Old Mutual joBerg2c will see timed enduro sections included in the nine-day mountain bike journey across South Africa. Dubbed “the race within the race”, these single-track sections would be known as the Red Bull Runs and give […]
Fi’zi:k Antares VS Review – Final Thoughts
In early February I received a Fi’zi:k Antares VS saddle to review from the Australian importers. Somewhat foolhardily, I fitted it to me bike about a week before racing a major Marathon MTB race – the Kona Odyssey. Soon after, I shared my first views on the saddle. Since that time, I spent countless hours […]
Luke Haines – Adventure Racing Experience at the Crocodile Trophy
The 2012 Crocodile Trophy attracted a broad range of enthusiastic bike riders. Some were professional road racers, some were professional mountain bikers. Luke Haines was one of many Australians who entered the Croc, and his background is as a full time Adventure Racer, based in Geelong, Victoria. It’s the same event, but a very different […]
C-Bear move into the USA
C-Bear Ceramic Bearings was founded in Belgium in 2009 by Bart Schouten. An avid cyclist who felt there should be a more durable solution for bottom brackets. Mountain bikers in Belgium typically ride through all season and were replacing bottom bracket bearings up to three times per winter. We were the first and only company […]
Achieving Goals at the Highland Fling
In 2011 I googled MTB races in NSW and it came up with the Highland Fling. I convinced Ray to come and race with me not knowing how popular this event was. We both raced the half marathon and that was our first experience with MTB races in Australia, we absolutely loved it, there is […]
ABSA Cape Epic in Privateer magazine
Related Event: ABSA Cape Epic
The current edition of premium mountain bike magazine, Privateer, includes a 20-page feature on this year’s ABSA Cape Epic, in which Subaru-MarathonMTB.com riders Mike Blewitt and Will Hayter attempted to put to rights their abortive race from 2011, with mixed results. There’s some great photography in there as well from the Sportzpics team, led by […]
The Highs and Lows of Marathon racing
At the recent Crocodile Trophy MTB Stage Race in Far North Queensland, I spoke to Wiggle Bikeshop racer Matt Page about what mountain bike racing delivered to the riders involved. We agreed that stage races could deliver great highs and lows – and the Croc Trophy was able to make the differences between the two […]