The 19th Crocodile Trophy starts this Saturday with a cross country race at Smithfield in Cairns. As the world’s oldest mountain bike stage race the Crocodile Trophy has become known as one of the hardest and most adventurous races around. This year more than 80 riders will race for 900 km through the Outback and […]
Archives for October 2013
Bike Buller Festival back for 2014
Entries are now open for the adrenaline pumping Bike Buller MTB Festival presented by Kona, at Mt Buller Victoria over the March long weekend, 8-10 March 2014. This is the start of a busy three months for Marathon and Stage Racers in Australia, with a heavy schedule that runs until late May and crosses almost […]
Port to Port MTB Classic Launched!
We have talked before about the lack of stage races in Australia, and what the newer Australian MTB Stage Races are doing right. It looks like another race is set to follow in the successful footsteps of the Cape to Cape. Member for Port Stephens, Craig Baumann yesterday launched the Port to Port MTB (Mountain […]
UCI World Marathon Series – Roc d’Azur
After the previous weekend’s mudfest at Extreme-sur-Loue, which will henceforth be known as Mud-sur- Loue, the team headed south like migrating birds to the Cote d’Azur for two races to round off the 2013 season. Here’s how they got on. This has been provided by Vauxhall-Mountain Trax rider Tim Dunford. Sitting on the beachfront in […]
Extreme sur Loue – mud surfing in France
On Sunday 6 October Tim Dunford and Ben Thomas travelled the long journey in the comfort of the Vauxhall Vivaro team van to the Jura region of France to compete in the latest round of UCI Mountain Bike Marathon Series, Extreme Sur Loue. Here’s how they got on. As titles go Extreme-sur-Loue might conjure up […]
Who’s who at the Cape to Cape
For a few years now mountain bike stage racing in Australia has been growing. Whether it was Terra-Australis, Mountains to Beach, The Red-Center Enduro or even Wildside in Tasmania – racers had a few options, but there never seemed to be one that hit the nail on the head with location, time of the year, […]
WEMBO – talking to contenders
The 2013 WEMBO Solo World 24hr Championships are just days away, taking place at Mt Stromlo outside Canberra, Australia. We know the course, we know what some of the riders think of it – but surely people have questions. How many solo races can someone do? What do you eat? How do you keep going?? […]
Reviewed: Sugoi Bella Tri Bra
If you’re not interested in breasts, you may as well stop reading now. Still with me? Okay. We talk a lot about lycra and socks and shoes and gloves and helmets in the cycling world, and maybe because more men are into mountain biking than women, maybe because of some hangover taboo, it’s not so […]
LIMBC 2013 Stages 4 and 5: Never a dull moment
There is never an easy day in Langkwai at the LIMBC, the closing two stages were considerably shorter in distance than the preceding stages (stage 4: XCO 4.5km course x 5 laps and stage 5: XCC 1.6km course x 8 or 9 laps) and time (XCC 30 minutes to XCO 90 minutes) but the womens […]
Mud and Thunder at LIMBC
The last two mornings dawned with flashes of lightning and tropical rain ‘showers’. I now understand why the stages are not started until 1000 as by then the rain is clearing and the day has begun a fresh. The downside of the rain is perpetuating the ever present mud. Stages two and three were 45km […]