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One of the first races to kick off the Australian Marathon racing season is barely a month away. The AMB 100 will be held at Stromlo Forest Park on February 8th, 2015 – the day after round 4 of the Subaru MTBA National Series. Mt Stromlo is one of the best purpose built mountain bike […]
Mountain Trax – Vauxhall have announced their 2015 rider line up – and Junior Mark McGuire and Under 23 Dylan Kerfoot-Robson join the team for 2015. Isaac Pucci and team manager Ben Thomas will race for the team for another year. Domestically, Mark McGuire made a real mark on the Junior category in 2014 winning the […]
Sonya Looney is a well-known professional ultra endurance athlete, who has traipsed across the globe and graced the podiums of the world’s stage race and 100 mile races over the last 4 years. Sonya has worked with sponsors as an individual athlete as well as managing the business aspects of running a team for 2015. Sonya Looney is the rider […]
It will forever be remembered as a dark day on the South African cycling calendar: 3 January 2013 – the date one of the sport’s greatest talents was killed. Only 25 at the time, Stander died after being hit by a taxi while training on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast. He had become a household name following his courageous […]
For the majority of mountain bikers, travelling to a mountain bike race is about more than just the time you complete the event in, or your position. It is also about the event itself, the atmosphere, the destination, the people… everything that makes up the total experience. A new mountain bike stage race has started […]
In the middle of December I reminisced about living overseas, and relishing the opportunity for more travel. More adventure. More racing. But all on a limited budget. That was part one – this is part two. Packing up and heading overseas can always seem like a huge expense. And it isn’t ‘cheap’ – but there […]
The 2015 Andalucia Bike Race route covers 422 kilometres and 13 856 metres of vertical climbing across its six stages. The fifth edition of will have the most elevation gain in the race’s history. The mountainous terrain of the four stages in Jaén have contributed to the total amount of climbing, but it will decrease once the race moves on. The […]
The Fairview Attakwas Extreme Mountain Bike Challenge has an extra prize in 2015, with R100 000 up for grabs for a new record time of 4 hours and 30 minutes for the 121km marathon. The Attakwas is on Saturday 17 January. The race starts at Chandelier Game Farm outside Oudtshoorn and finishes at Groot Brak. Henco Rademeyer from […]
Transpyr has continued to grow, from an event that wasn’t strictly a timed race, to a very competitive and difficult crossing of the Pyrenees. With a mountain bike and road route on offer, and brilliant hotels to stay in, it’s as much a holiday as a riding adventure. Of course, 800km and 20000m climbing might […]
What are the days between Christmas and New Years Eve for save for riding, holidays, great food and drink, and some time to relax? Reflection, it seems. I had close to 40 days of racing in 2014, less than some years, but more than many other years. But with two overseas trips, a lot of […]
