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December 4, 2011 By Richie Tyler Leave a Comment

Black Mountains 3 Day

Great weather, great trails, at the 2011 Black Mountains 3 Day. Photo: BeardedMan

We all know that do a Mountain Bike Stage Raceis to truly live. What better way to spend your time, than wake up, have some breakfast, and realise your only key task for that day is riding your bike as fast as possible. If that sounds like you, save the dates in your diary now […]

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November 30, 2011 By Richie Tyler Leave a Comment

LineBreak special offer for MarathonMTB.com readers

Our good friends at LineBreak are giving MarathonMTB.com readers the chance to pick up some of their world-class compression garments at a huge 50% discount. Used by MarathonMTB.com Race Team riders to help recover after events like the ABSA Cape Epic and the Crocodile Trophy, LineBreak compression garments are specially designed to maximise performance and […]

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November 29, 2011 By Richie Tyler Leave a Comment

Bike Buller: Entries open for 2012

Riders enjoying the ever expanding trail network at Mt Buller. Photo: Rapid Ascent

Entries have opened for the 2012 Bike Buller Mountain Bike Festival presented by Giant with a promise that this year’s event will deliver more biking bang – not to mention festival fun – for the rider buck. Now in its fourth year, Bike Buller has been shifted to the March Long Weekend (10-12 March), meaning […]

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November 24, 2011 By Richie Tyler Leave a Comment

SRAM Singletrack Mind Series: Postponed. Again!

After having rescheduled this event from April after a somewhat biblical torrent of rain, we tried to appease the weather deity with offers of beer and chocolate feet but alas it would seem to be in vain. The Newcastle region has received over 70mm of rain in the past 4 days and a HUGE dump […]

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November 22, 2011 By Richie Tyler Leave a Comment

Mongolia Bike Challenge goes from strength to strength

Riders relax after a stage of the 2011 edition of the Mongolia Bike Challenge

With just 2 editions under its belt, The Mongolia Bike Challenge sponsored by ORBEA is emerging as a strong addition to the global mountain bike stage race calendar. The epic, 10-day stage is also taking mountain bike racing into a region largely bereft of competition. Despite its relative infancy, the race has attracted professional racers like Cory Wallace […]

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November 21, 2011 By Richie Tyler Leave a Comment

English claims inaugural Bottlebutt100 crown

Lachlan Morton (Garmin-Cervelo) follows in the singletrack. Photo: Marathon-photos.com

National MTB Marathon Champion Jason English has taken out the inaugural Bottlebutt 100 with a gritty ride that bared all the markings of a true champion, holding out a solid challenge from Garmin Cervelo rider and training buddy Lachlan Morton. Just one week after completing the 100-mile Fling in a little over 6 hours, English […]

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November 18, 2011 By Richie Tyler 3 Comments

Crocodile Trophy re-loaded: Shorter, more variety and technical challenges

Will riders be as shelled? Shorter stages do make for faster races. There will be hurt.

Just about a month ago the 17th Crocodile Trophy finished with a victory of the Dutch racer Jeroen Boelen and Jessica Douglas from Australia. Now the arrangements for 2012 have already been made. And they hold a lot of new plans for the mountain bike stage race in the Australian Outback. The most adventurous stage […]

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November 16, 2011 By Richie Tyler Leave a Comment

Singletrack Mind Series: Round Eight and a Quarter

With spring almost over, and sumemr knocking on the door, a lot of Australian Marathon racers are either turning to the National Cross Country Series (starting this weekend in Perth) or just going to ground to get some rest or base kilometres in for 2012. Some people will have hung it up after the Highland […]

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November 13, 2011 By Richie Tyler Leave a Comment

Briar’s Highland Fling – Mates that don’t wait

Post race beers at the Briar's Highland Fling. Well earnt and well deserved.

This post has been provided by Kristen Pimpini. Waking up this morning, I wasn’t excited about the 100k Fling ahead of me, I had visions of me faltering on Broke Back Mountain or “Grass Ventuoux” as we call it, having to push my bike to the top and being passed by all my mates who […]

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November 13, 2011 By Richie Tyler Leave a Comment

Real Insurance XCM Series: Briar’s Highland Fling

Leaders jerseys of the 2011 Real Insurance XCM Series. Cooper in the KOM, Fleming in the Leaders, Fay in the QOM. Photo: www. cyclenation.com.au

Dylan Cooper (Trek) has taken out the inaugural Real Insurance XCM Series after beating Ben Mather (Avanti Plus)and Matt Fleming (Rockstar Racing) at the Briars Highland Fling. In a thrilling finish, Cooper finished just one one hundredth of a second in front of Ben Mather in the final round of the Real Insurance XCM Series. […]

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