Trail runners and mountain bikers are expected to mass like never before on Mt Baw Baw this summer with late breaking news that a new off road run and ride event, the first in a series of four dubbed ‘Seasons of Pain’, will be held on Saturday 26 January. Seasons of Pain will challenge adventure […]
Kappius Hubs: It’s what’s inside that counts
Last month, we featured the first part of our tech features on the Kappius Components hub sets. The opportunity to ride these hubs in August was the result of heavy interest after first looking into the hubs and their features in March – check out our first look here. If you read both those articles, […]
New routes for Garda Marathon
Today, 13th December, the online registration for both Rocky Mountain BIKE Marathons powered by Vaude begins at 12:00pm (Western Europe Time). The races are organised as part of the 20th Garda Trentino BIKE Festival from 3rd to 5th May and the 16th Willingen BIKE Festival powered by ŠKODA from 14th to 16th June. Next year, […]
Blair and Lewis, racing with a common goal
It has recently been announced that two of the most successful and well liked endurance mountain biker racers in Australia will be racing together for 2013. Andy Blair and Shaun Lewis have trained together for a long time – and now they will be racing together too. Although they have been great mates for a […]
Gaining strength from racing Solo
Previously, we ran a feature on the last three Series winners of the SRAM Singletrack Mind Series, and delved into their motivation, their preparation, and what they have headed onto. Now, we have spoken to three women who also excel at solo races, be they lap based endures, or stage races. Racing long hours alone, […]
Hellfire Cup: Elite field will descend on Tasmania
The Avanti Plus Hellfire Cup is a new 4 day mountain bike race taking part in South East Tasmania. With 4 days and 7 stages of mountain bike racing running from January 25th – January 28th 2013, the action will be jam packed over the Australia Day Long Weekend. Race director Duncan Giblin explains what he […]
Dunford and Thomas join forces for 2013
Mountain Trax – Vauxhall Motors Cycling Team is a fresh mountain bike team specialising in endurance racing. The riders Ben Thomas and Tim Dunford have risen to the top of the sport in the UK and in 2013 they look to cement that position whilst also aiming for big results at some of the world’s […]
Routing Announced for 2013 Craft Bike Transalp
Less then one week before the official registration for the 2013 Craft BIKE Transalp powered by Sigma starts on December 11, 2012, on bike-transalp.de, the stage towns for the 16th edition of the mountain bike classic have been announced, and as a consequence the routing too. As has become traditional, the route switches from a […]
Heat works for Solo winner at JetBlack 24
The new JetBlack 24 Hour Solo Elite Champion is Chris Hanson from Darwin! More than 500 riders were at the start at The Australian Botanic Garden, Mt Annan at Rocky Trail’s fifth JetBlack 24 Hour race on the weekend and in the sweltering heat the passionate endurance rider from the Northern Territory deals with the […]
Athletic Development by Solo Racing
The Australian mountain biking scene has a love affair with laps and hours. Three hour races, four hour races, six hour races, seven, eight, twelve, eighteen and twenty-four hour lap based races. We love them. Put one on and we will enter in droves. I’m certain that if XCO events were still a little longer […]