Hanco Kachelhoffer and Pieter Seyffert ended a three-year partnership on a high note when they won the Sanlam MTB Invitational two-stage mountain bike race at Rhebokskloof near Paarl on Sunday 20th November. The ASG duo won the 60km opening stage on Saturday to take a comfortable lead of just under six minutes into the second […]
2017 Perskindol Swiss Epic entries are open!
Related Event: Perskindol Swiss Epic
The Perskindol Swiss Epic is a six-day mountain bike stage race with no true equal. The 4th edition is taking place from 11 to 16 September 2017. Once again, the course will cover beautiful singletrack in the heart of the Valais, offering a mountain biking, competitive and travel experience unlike any other bike race. Next year’s edition […]
Flinging into the deep end at the Highland Fling
Related Event: Camelbak Highland Fling
Photos by Zoe Binder and Richie Tyler The Australian marathon mountain bike calendar has swollen to bursting point, and not every event cuts it. But the Highland Fling has always been amongst the biggest and the best in the country. Rolling into Bundanoon yesterday afternoon, it was easy to be reminded why. Racers and their […]
Snowies Mountain Bike Festival attracts a stacked field
The Snowies Mountain Bike Festival returns to the Alpine High Country of New South Wales in 3 weeks’ time for its third iteration and there is a stellar field of elite competitors lining up for the challenge and the chance to share in the $10,000 cash prize pool. Starting at an altitude of 1260m, riders […]
Snow Bike Festival first UCI event on snow
Each year the UCI denotes which races will attract ranking points, and the guaranteed prize money that goes along with it. Races like the Swiss Epic and Cape Epic have earnt their ‘SHC’ (hors categorie stage race) ranking, and other stage races can be S1 or S2, depending on their difficulty. In 2017, the Snow […]
Huber and Pirard win 2016 Crocodile Trophy
Related Event: Crocodile Trophy
The 2016 Crocodile Trophy has been a tight battle in the men’s race, and has also had until drama for the leading women. But after eight hard days of racing the Crocodile Trophy racers crossed the finish line on Four Mile Beach on Saturday 29th October. Urs Huber was the fastest man on the time trial […]
Uber Huber unstoppable at Crocodile Trophy
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The second-last stage of the Crocodile Trophy took the riders further north and towards the coast to Wetherby Cattle Station where Urs Huber won another stage in a sprint finish ahead of Sebastien Carabin. Annemiek van Vleuten claimed her third stage win as eighth outright ahead of Ruth Corset and Alice Pirard. New amateur leader is […]
Van Vleuten attacks the Crocodile Trophy
An audacious attack by Annemiek van Vleuten surprised the entire Crocodile Trophy field on today’s stage six – only young Stef de Louwere from The Netherlands went with her. Stage win for de Louwere, van Vleuten finishes second outright. Huber keeps overall race lead ahead of Carabin with two stages to go. Right from the […]
Huber and Pirard claim stage 5 of Crocodile Trophy
Related Event: Crocodile Trophy
After a couple of long, tough days the Crocodile Trophy arrived at Skybury Coffee Plantation yesterday – and no doubt the cafe was doing a roarind trade in coffees, milkshakes and other luxury food items. The Queen Stage from Atherton to Skybury was once again decided in a finish sprint between Urs Huber and the Belgian […]
Catching up with the 2016 Crocodile Trophy
It’s Wednesday, and the 2016 Crocodile Trophy has been going for four days, and racers are into the 5th day. So far we can see that the Swiss Bull, Urs Huber, is super strong, but Belgian Sebastien Carabin is marking him when he can. The women’s race has been up and down, with the mountain […]