Photos: Open Shutter Photography & Scott Vaughan Held over the last weekend of April, the Bendigo Golden Triangle Epic has once again bolstered its reputation as one of the biggest and best mountain bike events on the Victorian race calendar. Despite heavy rains the day before, over 400 riders descended on the Central Victorian town […]
Archives for May 2015
Australian Marathon Championships Preview
In a matter of days, Australia’s marathon mountain bike racing elite, along with many more enthusiastic amateur racers, will travel to Derby, in North East Tasmania. A small town previously ravaged by mining and forestry, mountain biking is set to be the saviour of this town and its region. 100km of trails built by World […]
Battling the Selkirk Marathon – British XCM Champs
This post has been provided by Robert Wardell, of Dirtschool.co.uk Full results are available online. The Selkirk Marathon is a recent classic of the British endurance mountain bike scene. A single 75km lap through the hills and valleys of the Scottish Borders with around 2,500m of climbing. The trails offer a mixture of old school […]
BMC release new Teamelite 01 – a Racing Evolution
The Swiss don’t do things by halves, and BMC haven’t been known to take bike design lightly. The Impec Lab has teamed up with the BMC Mountainbike Racing Team to create the new BMC Teamelite 01 – the world’s most technically advanced hardtail mountain bike. Cross-country racing, and marathon racing, demands absolute perfection from your […]
The countdown to XCM Worlds in the Val Gardena
Related Event: XCM World Champioships: Sellaronda Hero
In Europe, the snow is slowly melting on the high passes, and some of the big guns of international marathon racing have been able to flex their muscles on home soil. Summer is coming! While Australia has a strong marathon racing scene, America has an impressive array of 100 miler races, and South Africa has […]
Bike 4Islands a huge success in 2015
Related Event: 4 Islands MTB Race
The first edition of the Adria Bike 4Islands MTB stage race has been run, won, and deemed a great success. The new event link the four islands Krk, Rab, Cres and Losinj. 200 cyclists from 19 countries took part in the race, which carried them over 270 kilometres of Croatia’s finest trails. Despite ending with […]
Meda 100 – exploring new territory
I’ve always said that one of the best things about mountain bike racing is the places it takes you. For a road race, I might make it as far from my home in London as the surrounding counties, or the occasional foray to northern France or Belgium. Fun, but not exactly an adventure. The UCI […]
Recipe: Recovery Pancakes
PANCAKES ROCK! Let’s face it they do. But the thought of pancakes has been one painted with ice cream, butter, Nutella all while swimming in syrup. Pancakes are actually a great recovery food for athletes if prepared correctly with the right ingredients. Loaded with good, muscle-feeding carbohydratess and low-GI grains, these are my favourite recovery […]
Racing the Roc D’Ardenne – Dutch Courage
“Don’t be so hard on yourself” A sentence I have heard many times in my life, not only in sport but also in professional and personal circumstances. High expectations are something I also carried in my day to day life. In a way I believed it made people reach for the stars and in my […]
Reviewed: Osprey Escapist 32
Review by Tom Arch, photos by Wil Barrett While the mountain bike market is continually being divided into more and more specialised gear each season, not all of us have the room (or the money) to have a garage filled with multiple bikes and different types of apparel for each day of the week. Sometimes […]