The compact, women’s specific CamelBak Magic looks like it’s made for mountain biking. It’s snug, low profile, and has enough space to stash everything you need for a part-day ride. The women’s fit means it stays glued to the female form on the trails. And the snazzy range of colours on offer makes riding more […]
Mont Madness
Related Event: The Mont 24hr
I can’t help but raise an eyebrow when people say they’re “just riding for fun.” When is riding not fun? I think what they’re trying to express is that they’re riding for giggles not sheep stations. It’s a way of sounding cool when you’re really being soft. At last weekend’s Mont 24 Hour in Canberra, […]
Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team Page
Subaru are supporting a massive number of teams and events. So many that the whole list doesn’t even make it onto the screen grab of the Subaru Active website. What did make it though is the beginning of the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com team page. Keep an eye on it to see how it develops over the next […]
LineBreak CalfGuards
The LineBreak CalfGuards are what you wear when you’re so stuffed you can’t pull your shorts off to put on the full length tights. Or at least, that’s one of the uses for this garment. They’re also a good alternative to LineBreak’s compression tights in hotter weather. This has made them an attractive summer and […]
LineBreak Women’s Compression Tights
In a sport like cycling, the fitter you get the longer and more frequent training rides tend to become. As such, it’s easy to forget the importance of recovery in making the performance gains you’re after. LineBreak products assist recovery through compression after exercise, reducing muscle vibration during sport and by helping with temperature regulation […]
Inside Race Prep
Racing doesn’t always go to plan. My Kona Odyssey sure didn’t – but that’s the sport. If marathons didn’t throw up so many challenges, we wouldn’t get to spend so much time preparing for upcoming events and reflecting on the last one. And besides, the before and after is half the fun. Privateer’s blogsite has […]
Gearing up for the new year
When the MarathonMTB.com website first hit my radar I was inspired by and attracted to the way the site and it’s associated race team celebrate mountain biking as a lifestyle: the exciting races on offer, the adventures people have there and the frequent stories they share about these experiences on the web. I wouldn’t have […]
MTB Tourism: Victoria, Australia
Buller. Forrest. Beauty. Beechworth. The Youies…Places I’ve long dreamed to experience by bike but never quite got there. It was clearly time for a good, long holiday – one that takes in all these places and then some. My partner and I therefore spent the first three weeks of January completely exhausting ourselves with a […]
The SRAM Singletrack Mind Series Sees Out a Great Year of Racing
If I had a totem animal for the last couple of weeks it would be a horse. Too much fun to choose from each day meant I had been sleeping while standing up. The end of the year seems to have that effect on people and looking around at the Awaba edition of the SRAM […]
Kath Bicknell: Fully Flung
A 100ker as a female racer brings with it some different tactics to those you sometimes hear about from the Elite Blokes. Longer race times mean different nutrition plans and a longer recovery period, smaller bikes often allow less space for biddons, a thinner rider density makes for multiple individual time trials and, while most […]