Outdoor Channel (Asia), the world leader in outdoor entertainment television, has signed an exclusive pan-regional partnership with Tour de Timor and Government of Timor-Leste that will see Outdoor Channel provide extensive pan-regional coverage of the 2012 Tour de Timor. Outdoor Channel will be broadcasting the event in full High Definition, as over 400 international and […]
Sacrifice and Devotion: How Much?
The following rider diary has been provided by ‘PT’ Brock. Part time employment, full time cycling aspirant. The end of the year is a great time for reflection. We all have thoughts and queiries, both personal and universal, bound to the simple question. How much? I recall reading an article a close friend had written […]
Pick One!
This Rider Diary has been provided by Stuart Spies – who will be riding for the UK based MarathonMTB.com-Repaack Team in 2012 Our sport is strange, I left Johannesburg roughly 10 years ago in no small part to chasing a bit of, well I guess you’d call it a dream. More maybe chasing the romance […]
Entries open for Mountain Bike Challenge Lough Derg
Registration for the second two-day, 4-stage mountain bike challenge in Lough Derg, Ireland have opened, with organisers hoping to build on a successful start to the event in 2011. The event will take place on the weekend of the April 21-22, 2012, with four different stage courses on offer. Last year, 100 riders took on […]
Mountainous challenge for new Herald VW Cycle Tour organisers
A growing demand for professionally organised mountain biking events in the Eastern Cape has seen two entrepreneurs start a dedicated business and take over the reigns of the off-road portion of The Herald VW Cycle Tour. Earlier this year former competitive cross-country riders Brad Jackson and Julie Briggs, both from Port Elizabeth, started Mountain Events […]
Tathra bands together for second edition of its MTB Enduro
Community driven mountain bike event, the Tathra MTB Enduro, will return for 2012, with five races on offer to make sure the whole family can be involved. Registration for the event opened last weekend, with 500 places on offer across the five events – double the capacity of the inaugural running of the race this year. The […]
Real Insurance and MTBA sponsor Australian National Series
MTBA is proud to announce that Real Insurance has been secured as the Naming Rights partner of the All Mountain Cup and Gravity Cup, part of the Australian National Series. The sponsorship continues Real Insurances’ support of cycling, after sponsoring the Real Insurance XCM Series and Real Insurance Summer and Point Score Series’ in 2011. […]
Prize money sets the stage for joBerg2c
Contenders in the Old Mutual joBerg2c, South Africa’s longest paired mountain bike race, will now compete for prize money on every stage, organisers announced today. The third edition of the nine-day event, which sets off from Heidelberg south of Johannesburg on April 27 next year, will give daily winners a greater share of the increased […]
Furious 3: Quality Stage Racing
Following the huge success of its first ever 3 day stage mountain bike race in Fernie, Furious3 has announced that it will add 2 more cities to its calendar in 2012, offering racers the ability to compete in both Canada and the United States. With planning already underway for Furious3 Fernie 2012, Mark Kaltenbach, owner […]
New Route announced for the Craft Bike Trans Germany 2012 Powered by Nissan.
The route for the Craft Bike Trans Germany 2012 powered by Nissan has been announced. On 6th June 2012 the established mountain bike stage race will start in Sonthofen, moving on to Pfronten, Lermoos (AUT) and Seefeld (AUT), finishing after four stages on 9th June in the picturesque Garmisch-Partenkirchen. With Seefeld the organisers are presenting […]