Numerous images have been spread across the internet in recent days of Nino Schurter, and other riders, testing parts for SRAM. By all appearances, it looks like SRAM’s 12-speed Eagle group set has gone wireless, much like their eTap group sets on the road. Having heard from a SRAM employee in late 2014 that they […]
Archives for February 2018
The 2nd Great Otway Gravel Grind (GOGG) treats riders to a 2nd day of racing in the Otways.
Related Event: Great Otway Gravel Grind
After a stellar Otway Odyssey XCM race on the Saturday promoters Rapid Ascent have made the classic XCM race part of a weekend of solid racing or riding in the beautiful Surf Coast region aside the Great Ocean Road in Australia. Defending champion Peta Mullens (Bendigo) and Jay Vine (Canberra) have taken top honours to […]
Tackle the Convict 100 with these #protips
Related Event: Convict 100 - Sydney's marathon mountain bike race
Marathon races have come and gone in Australia. The list of racers which won’t run again can be depressingly long. The Angry Doctor, Wombat 100, Highland Fling, Capital Punishment, 3 Ring Circus – all gone. But the Convict 100 has stayed true, and stayed strong. It’s a point-to-point race that runs in one big loop […]
Standish and Mullens victors at 2018 Otway Odyssey after an eventful 98km!
Related Event: Otway Odyssey
The 12th edition of the Otway Odyssey was run and won under grey skies in the singletrack wonderland that is Forrest, Victoria, Australia. With the national XCO championships occurring on the same weekend a number of key big name riders were notable absent. However, the women’s field showed significant depth with 4 former winners on […]
National Championships Course Preview – Armidale
The Australian XCO season reaches its climax this weekend with National Championship racing at Armidale’s fast and rocky University of New England course. MarathonMTB.com got between the tape early to bring you a preview of what’s in store for riders vying for the green and gold. The course begins with a fairly standard, flat, out […]
Jenny Rissveds and Scott-SRAM part ways in mutual agreement
Jenny Rissveds, 2017 Cape Epic winner in Mixed, and Olympic and Swedish Mountain Bike Champion, has announced that she wants to fully recover and be 100% ready before racing again. Consequentially, the 23 year old Swede terminated her contract with her team, SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing. Jenny has been riding on SCOTT bikes since she started mountain […]
24 Hours of Old Pueblo – according to Quadsworth
Related Event: 24 Hours of Old Pueblo
The saying goes that everything in the Sonoran Desert wants to kill you. Seems the perfect setting then for one of the oldest and largest 24 hour races in the world. Epic Rides season of shred kicked off with a bang this past weekend as some of America’s finest endurance athletes gathered in “24 Hour […]
Otway weekend of racing expected to attract over 1400 riders
Related Event: Great Otway Gravel GrindOtway Odyssey
Race promotion company Rapid Ascent is excited to welcome over 1,400 riders to Forrest, Victoria this weekend for two huge days of racing at The Otway Odyssey and Great Otway Gravel Grind (GOGG) presented by Focus, one of the most iconic races in Australia. The 12th edition features mountain bike races; the 100km Odyssey, the […]
Platt and Bulls are full gas for 2018 Cape Epic
Here at MarathonMTB.com we have a number of ’emotional favourite’ marathon racers. Riders who race hard and fast all season, and have done since we founded the site in 2010. Karl Platt of Team Bulls is one of those riders. And while Platt may have broken his hip just a few months ago we hear […]
Racing a Classic: the Coppermine
Before the days of Trailforks, finding an epic trail was all about distant magazine articles. One of the most lauded trails was the Dun Mountain loop, a short back-country loop based out of Nelson, New Zealand. Like many of New Zealand’s back country rides, it follows an historic route through the hills, tracing the old […]