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April 27, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Appenninica MTB 2021 stage review

With less than six months to until the third edition of Appenninica MTB Stage Race, race courses and profiles have been released for the stage race running from 12-18 September, 2021. The race organisers have worked to enhance the route from previous years, focusing on the Apennine ridge’s beauty and the unspoiled nature of Alta Via […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: appenninica MTB, Bike, biking, emilia romagna, Italy, MarathonMTB, Mike Blewitt, mountain bike, MTB, Stage Race

March 23, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Oliver and Burnett crowned Prospector champions

New Zealand has the terrain to host a variety of mountain bike races, and while The Pioneer is gone (for now?) The Prospector popped up in 2021 as a 3-day mountain bike stage race in the Central Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island. With a prologue on Friday followed by two stages, the race […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bike, central otago, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, New Zealand, prospector, Stage Race

March 23, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

The 2021 Andalucia Bike Race route

Andalucia Bike Race

The route for the 11th edition of Andalucía Bike Race will travel 364 km with 11 330 metres of climbing, and this challenge will run from 17 to 22 May in Jaén and Córdoba in Spain. This year the route will take in popular sections of the typical race route, amongst others that have not […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: andalucia, Andalucia Bike Race, Bike, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Spain, Stage Race

March 16, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Who can win the Dragon Trail MTB Stage Race?

This Thursday the Dragon Trail MTB Stage Race begins in Branxholm, in north-east Tasmania. The three day mountain bike stage race has been a long time coming. After a lot of excitement for the inaugural edition in 2020, the event was postponed to 2021. And to be honest, some may not have been sure everything […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Derby, dragon trail, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Tasmania

February 24, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Win a Scott Spark at the Cape Epic – on Zwift

For 16 years, mountain bikers around the world have known that March is Absa Cape Epic month. Of course, until Covid-19 arrived and the 17th edition of the Absa Cape Epic was cancelled with just 24 hours notice. 12 months on, the Cape Epic organisers plan to reclaim March for riders across the world – […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: cape epic, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Scott Spark, Zwift

February 17, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

The Otway Odyssey is go!

Rapid Ascent have confirmed that the Otway Odyssey Mountain Bike Marathon and Great Otway Gravel Grind events are proceeding as planned this Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st February at Forrest, Victoria. This go ahead is based upon the public advice given by Victorian Premier Dan Andrews at the press conference this morning. There are a couple of changes required, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: MarathonMTB, mountain bike, otway odyssey

February 9, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

The Redback brings racing back to Alice Springs

MarathonMTB Alice Springs The Redback

After a quiet year where few numbers where attached to handlebars, Rapid Ascent are have opened entries to the award-winning Redback MTB Stage Race, set to return to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory (NT) on Friday 20 to Monday 23 August 2021. The Redback has had a couple of variants and names over the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Alice Springs, Bike, bike racing, MarathonMTB, northern territory, Rapid Ascent, Stage Race, the redback, Travel

January 15, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Our take on the Appenninica 2021 MTB stage race route.

The Appenninica MTB stage race was one of the lucky ones in 2020. They had to postpone their event to September, but the new date ended up being a better date, avoiding some of the high temperatures that the Emilia Romagna region enjoys (or suffers?) in July. So here we are in 2021, and the […]

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January 11, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Otway Odyssey – a look back to the start

In 2007, there was a new race on the calendar – the Otway Odyssey. A 100km race was scheduled to start on the Great Ocean Road at Apollo Bay, and climb up and over the Otway Ranges towards the town of Forrest, where the old logging roads and new singletrack would be tackled, before finishing […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Bike, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, otway odyssey, Rapid Ascent

December 17, 2020 By Mike Blewitt 1 Comment

Roxsolt Liv SRAM coming to the Otways

There’s no doubt that the Otway Odyssey and Great Otway Gravel Grind (GOGG) making one of the best weekends of offroad riding and racing in Australia. This week, Team Roxsolt Liv SRAM – Australia’s only UCI Continental Women’s Team – have announced that they will be racing the two events in Forrest Victoria on the 20-21 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: great otway gravel grind, MarathonMTB, otway odyssey, Peta Mullens

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