There are a some key parts of your bike that everyone has a favourite item for – and with good reason. Typically, these are your contact points – your saddle, your bike shorts, your grips, handlebars, shoes, pedals – and your tyres too. Your legs are the strongest part of your body, and having the […]
Archives for May 2013
ICME MTB Enduro : Stage 4: A Marathon with an orientering leg
There are always a lot of stories after a Mountain bike race, about the terrain, the course, the tactics, lines being taken, lines being missed. Sometimes you wonder if it is the same race they are talking about. The talk of yesterday’s stage was Kyle Ward finishing the last 30km without being able […]
ICME Enduro MTB Stage 3 : Rock Galore
During a drunken night out post Convict 100 I happily offered to share my free accommodation for the ICME stage race to Micheal Crosby who probably wouldn’t have been able to afford coming up otherwise. When later that same night Kyle Ward asked me if he could come also, I enthusiastically babbled drunkenly, yes […]
Trying Something New…
Firstly, let me set out my stand. I’m a mountain bike racer; that’s what I do. I have sometimes succumbed to the lure of the asphalt for extended periods of time, especially when I lived in Cambridgeshire, and area of the UK not renowned for its off-road riding. Equally, now that I live in London […]
ICME Stage 2 : Ready… Set… Go…
After an hour cleaning the bike, a hot shower and lots of food, most of the afternoon was spent lazying around the room spyching each other up for the 300m TT Hill climb we had to do in the afternoon. I am not a sprinter, not even close, I can actually say I dont even […]
ICME MTB Enduro : Stage 1: A Muddy Affair
Since joining the Marathon MTB team 6 months ago I have seen more of Australia travelling to races all over the country than I have in the 2 years I have lived here. When Mike asked me if I would be interested to race the ICME stage race in Alice Spring, I didn’t have to […]
ICME kicks off in Alice Springs
Racers have started to arrive in Central Australia for the five day, seven stage Ingkerreke Commercial Mountain Bike Enduro (ICME) stage race. With the caliber of riders attracted to the race for 2013, the 200 strong field is set to heat up the mountain bike trails of Alice Springs and the MacDonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory on […]
Season 2013, Part One
With one more race to go before heading into winter, it’s time to have a look back at the first part of 2013 and my first 6 months on the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com team. I started my season in Australia with the Kona Odyssey in Forrest, Victoria. Amazing race, well known and loved by many mountain […]
Choosing insurance for your bike, racing and travel
Insurance has been around for 4000 years. Some scholars of the history of insurance – there are some and, indeed, you might be one – think it’s more like 2500 years but either way, neither of those figures are typos. That makes insurance salesman the second oldest profession in the world. Interesting then that there […]
Knox and Sanders win MTN Clarens – Sahm leads UCI XCM Series
By winning the UCI World Series ultra marathon at the MTN Clarens National MTB driven by Nissan on Saturday (4 May), Max Knox (Specialized / EAI Solutions) made sure that matters are beginning to ‘hot up’ in the MTN National MTB Series. Knox, the defending MTN Ultra champion, and Charles Keey (Cannondale/Blend Properties) are neck […]