Mother nature decided that Andalucia Bike Race’s Queen stage on day 4 wasn’t quite difficult enough, a dumping of snow on top of the mountains would make things a little more interesting. A route diversion followed cutting the stage to ‘just’ 2,500 metres of climbing over 65 kilometres. A neutralised downhill section out of town […]
Archives for February 2013
Victorian Enduro Series 2013
After last week’s bad news about the National XCM series, many riders have been looking at others races to focus on for 2013. For all you Melbourne / Victoria based riders out there, the Victorian Enduro Series (VES) might be a pretty good alternative. This series is the result of a combined effort of several […]
Andalucia Bike Race: Stage 3
Ben Thomas and Tim Dunford are racing the Andalucia Bike Race as The Mountain Trax – Vauxhall Cycling Team. Today, Tim has retold their version of the days racing. 68 kilometres, 1775 metres were the vital statistics for today, the third stage of the race. After suffering mechanical problems on the first two stages we […]
XCM Series Fall out: Racers Respond
A week on from AROC Sport announcing that neither their Capital Punishment race, or the Wombat 100, Convict 100, Kowalski Classic or Highland Fling would be part of the Real Insurance XCM Series, mountain bike racers and teams in Australia have been asking a lot of questions. Unfortunately, despite contact with various sources, there is […]
International Combo Triumphs in Knysna
Renay Groustra of South Africa and Daniel Gathof of Germany won the third and final stage of the Rocky Mountain Garden Route 300 mountain bike race in Knysna on Sunday to secure a comfortable overall victory. The Rocky Mountain-RSA Web team’s time of 3:10:11 over the final 80km was two seconds faster than that of stage-one […]
Day 2 action from the 2013 Adalucia Bike Race
Our final day in Cordoba started under clear blue sunny skies, after 5 kilometres of neutralised “fun”, the race was led out onto farm tracks. The organisers have threatened to impose a 120 minute penalty to any team who overtake the lead car, there’s been plenty of opportunities for this to be enforced but I’ve […]
Multipower Sportsfood to sponsor the 2013 Transalp
Less than five months prior to the start of the Craft Bike Transalp powered by Sigma 16th edition, another sponsor has announced to support the mountain bike classic. As of now, Multipower Sportsfood will be part of the stage event’s co-sponsor pool. “We are proud that Multipower Sportsfood and thus a proven expert on nutrition […]
Andalucia Bike Race, Day one
So today the racers entered the stage racing bubble, 6 days of thrills and suffering has begun. Today the Andalucian countryside swallowed up 650 eager racers and threw us out battered after 75 kilometres, the story has begun. Ben Thomas is reporting for MarathonMTB.com from his experience racing with Tim Dunford on the Mountain Trax-Vauxhall […]
Rocky Mtn Garden Route: Yellow jersey changes hands in Knysna
South Africa’s Renay Groustra and German team-mate Daniel Gathof claimed the 115km second stage and overall lead of the Rocky Mountain Garden Route 300 mountain bike race in Knysna on Saturday. In a reversal of fortune, the Rocky Mountain-RSA Web duo came good on a stage that included 2 400m of climbing to comfortably overhaul Bridge’s overnight […]
Mountain Trax – Vauxhall Motors set to go at ABR
Andalucia Bike Race kicks off tomorrow in Cordoba Spain and Mountain Trax – Vauxhall Motors Cycling Team are in town reporting for MarathonMTB.com. Andalucia Bike Race enters its third year with popularity growing fast, its impressive to see the race sell out so quickly, and to see such a varied number of nationalities in attendance. […]