The 2014 Crocodile Trophy will be a UCI classified MTB Stage race, attracting an S1 ranking. Only the Cape Epic has the highest ranking, HCS – or “beyond categorisation” for a Stage Race. The Crocodile Trophy is arguably the longest running MTB Stage Race in the world. It’s possibly the hardest too – but ‘hard’ […]
Archives for February 2014
Cyprus Sunshine Cup: Round One
Today the 4 day Afxentia Cyprus Sunshine Cup stage race began with a tough 5.7km time trial. The town of Lefkara hosts stages 1 and 2, by midday today it was packed out with brightly coloured lycra and shiny carbon bikes. The race for many was the season opener and with Hors Category status the […]
Shimano MTB Grand Prix – Four Hours, Hard?
The options for MTB racing seem limitless at the moment. Coming into March, a mountain biker based in the South East of Australia has a plethora of bike races to attend. National Championships, the opening rounds of two different Marathon series, lap based endurance races, club cross country, stand alone marathon events… it’s a long […]
Subaru National Series Round 3: Eliminating Echuca
I found out at the final round of the MTBA National Series, the admittance of defeat may lead to the discovery of success. The Defeat The final National Series round for 2014 had crept up on us like a Bugatti doing 250km/h. It seemed like it was only yesterday we were lining up on the […]
Gravel Grinding: Escape to the better Daily Grind
Ok, I’ll admit it. I’m a child of the 70’s. From a bicycle standpoint that means my first ‘real’ bike was a BMX – now where I lived (Port Morseby, PNG) the whole concept of a ‘BMX track’ was a bit foreign so most of our time was spent exploring tracks, making jumps and trudging […]
Swiss domination at Sabie, Round one of UCI XCM Series
In another sweep victory and with Swiss precision Urs Huber (Team Bulls) and compatriot Ariane Kleinhans (Team RE:CM) stormed to victory in a soaking wet Sabie (Mpumalanga South Africa) for the first round of the UCI World Marathon Series and the second leg of the MTN National MTB Series driven by Nissan. The in form […]
Park City Point 2 Point Registration Opens Feb 26th
One of the United State’s top endurance events, the Park City Point 2 Point, will feature an enduro segment in this year’s race. In it’s sixth year as one of the most lucrative mountain bike races in the country, the Point 2 Point will be giving out even more cash and prizes in 2014 with […]
Previewing the XCO course at Echuca
Ahead of the 3rd Round of the Subaru Australian National MTB Series, Sebastian Jayne previewed the course at Moama. Location: Echuca/Moama on the shores of the Murray River Course: The course is fairly flat but as we found out in the Thredbo point-to-point last year, around Lake Crackenback, a flat course doesn’t necessarily make a […]
Cyprus Sunshine Cup 2014 – The British Contingent
A week before Cyprus Sunshine Cup we caught up with a few Brits who’ll kick off their race season on the Mediterranean island. Each rider had a very different winter with Imogen Buick battling the British weather, Steve James racing a full cyclocross calendar including the recent World Championships, and the Batchelor brothers escaping to […]
The Rigid Stromlo Project
They say that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it… or to put it another way, you think I would have learned from the last time I was silly enough to try and ride my bike packing rig for 5 long laps of Stromlo. Last year as part of my preparations for Tour […]