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Bikes of the 2014 Absa Cape Epic The Absa Cape Epic is always a good opportunity to get a good idea of what’s going on in the world of cross-country mountain bike technology. It’s such a testing event on both riders and kit that you get a mix of super-light and more real-world equipment, all […]
Adrian Jackson has many accolades, including being a multiple mountain bike orienteering world champion. He’s been racing MTB’s, fast, for over a decade. He’s raced in more countries than many riders have visited, and notched up great results while there. We have profiled his bike previously, in 2012, while he was still on a Merida. […]
Eight flights, one world cup, two crashes, four countries and one yoga session in an airport. These past few weeks have been very busy, and as you can see from the video below, all did not go smoothly. I knew the Cairns World Cup was going to be a rocky affair but I hoped that […]
I’ve been to Alice Springs, in Australia’s red desert heart, to race five times now, I love it so much it’s never hard to justify going back Stage racing out in the Alice Springs desert brings some special challenges with it, so as I’m writing reviews of the trails and getting ready to deliver race reports, […]
Rolling hills. Lush forests. Small rivers meandering through narrow valleys. Picturesque towns with attractive squares and ruined castes. Sunshine. Dust. These were not things I was really expecting when I came to Belgium. But they were among the things I found when making the road trip from London to the legendary Houffalize for the first […]
Get a rider’s-eye view of the diverse range of tracks that made up the 2014 Real Insurance XCM Series. Race 5 – Convict 100 in St Albans, New South Wales http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8xi74SxvQI Race 4 – The Tablelands Classic in Atherton, Queensland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8twInctXMTo Race 3 – Wombat 100 in Woodend, Victoria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ZZthV5D-w Race 2 – Australian XCM Championships at Mt Joyce, […]
G’day Mates, Since I last wrote I have gained many more frequent flyer miles, met up with some good mates, completed another UCI tour, enjoyed some sun in Florida, enjoyed some sun in California, enjoyed some sun in South Carolina, had an impromptu trip back home to Australia, done 4 hour training rides in complete […]
Australia has a handful of iconic marathon races – races that have a story, an impressive list of victors, and offer something that everyone enjoys – from elite to back marker. The Convict 100 is one of these, and on Saturday 3rd May, 2014, it celebrated it’s 10th anniversary. The Convict 100 has run on […]
The 2014 Real Insurance Series wrapped up with the Convict 100, with Canadian XCM Champion Cory Wallace and Irish XCM Champion Jenny Fay winning their respective Elite races. In the process the two wrapped up their overall series titles, with Wallace winning rounds 3 and 5, and Fay taking victory in rounds 2, 4 and […]
The month of May is traditionally a turning point for road cycling in Europe. Summer is just around the corner and the spring classics are all done and dusted, riders have packed away their winter gloves and Belgian booties and are looking forwards to a summer of stage racing and Grand Tours. It’s not just […]
