The following has been provided by Swell-Redshift racer Andy BlairWith winning form from the Cape to Cape Stage Race, strong local knowledge, and a desire to win – he has some unique insights into this weekends Briar’s Highland Fling. His knowledge of the field and various riders strengths and weaknesses is unsurpassed. The real insurance […]
Briar’s Highland Fling: The Real Insurance Show Down
On Sunday 13 November more than 2,000 competitors will compete in the Briars Highland Fling, the final round of the inaugural Real Insurance XCM Series. After a tightly contested Series it will all come down to the final result for both the Real Insurance XCM Series competitors and the Half XCM Series competitors. With the […]
Croc Trophy: Overheard in the bunch
Like any bike race, be it road or mountain, long or short – you can never tell the whole story. There is far too much going on. Various allegiences form and fall apart, micro-relationships may last for a section of trail or road, yet disintegrate due to the smallest of disagreements later. One of the […]
Dates confirmed for 2012 Chain Reaction Cycles MTB Marathon Series
The autumn is starting to make an appearance and organisers of the Chain Reaction Cycles Mountain Bike Marathon Series powered by Mercedes-Benz Vito Sport been working hard since the last round of the 2011 series to tie down locations and dates for the 2012 series. All the events will be double events again in 2012 with either […]
SRAM Singletrack Mind Series: Riders Rate New Venue at Rydal
A great new venue greeted riders for round 6 of the SRAM Singletrack Mind Series at the village of Rydal near Lithgow. With the Central Tablelands mountain bike club having to seek a new area for riding due to logging, they moved to the southern side of the Great Western Highway and have developed a […]
Evans and George seal victory in South Africa
Christoph Sauser and Max Knox sealed their fourth stage victory of the 2011 DCM Cape Pioneer Trek, as Kevin Evans and David George sealed their overall victory in the six day race. Sauser and Knox’s performance throughout the race indicated that it could have been a tight contest between the two aforementioned pairs, who accounted for […]
Thrilling sprint finish to stage five in South Africa
Christoph Sauser came across the line third by a whisker to seal a third stage win for himself and teammate Max Knox. Knox had himself only minutes earlier finished second to David George, who crossed the line first on the race’s Queen stage. Sauser faced his own sprint against George’s teammate Kevin Evans, prevailing by […]
Evans and George extend with second stage win
Overall leaders Kevin Evans And David George of Nedbank 360 Life won stage four of the DCM Cape Pioneer Trek. The duo finished two minutes ahead of Ben-Melt Swanepoel and Nico Bell (Bell’s Cycling -Specialized) and RE:CM “roadies” Neil MacDonald and Waylon Woolcock. MTN Qhubeka’s pairing of Adrien Niyonshuti and Jacques Janse van Rensburg, who […]
Norris takes out stage 3 in Langkawi
The results merry-go-round at the top of the leaderboard continued at the Langkawi International MTB Challenge on stage 3, with Australia’s Lachlan Norris (Giant Global Factory Offroad Team) topping the podium. Johnny Cattaneo (Full-Dynamix) went one better than his stage 2 result to claim second today, while yesterday’s stage winner, Karl Platt, finished third. Platt’s […]
Expanded Ritchey Oktoberfest a resounding success
What a weekend and what a great ending to the Mountain Bike Season 2011. After a hugely popular Ritchey Bikefest in June this year expectations were high for the 2nd outing of the Ritchey Oktoberfest, which for the first time would use the newly finished course in Ashton Court in Bristol. And to cut a […]