Cycling is an expensive pastime, especially when you are just starting out as there are certain items of equipment that are mandatory (bike, helmet, shoes, pedals, lights) and then there are the luxury items like the appropriate attire. In the early days the price tag attached to good quality cycling attire seems horrendous, but as […]
2012 Flight Centre Epic
This year will be the 10th anniversary of the Flight Centre Epic, starting in 2002 as a 117km challenge amongst mates, the event has shortened slightly but gained momentum and become a weekend tradition for many local and interstate riders. This year will be my 7th FC Epic. Over the past seven years I have […]
Rapid Ascent: Anaconda Noosa Adventure Race
Rapid Ascent are the people to follow if you have any interest in mountain biking or multi-sport events in Australia, with John Jacoby at the helm you can be guaranteed primo organisation and a significant ‘suffer’ factor. This year is the first year we have been graced by an Anaconda Adventure Race in Noosa and […]
Deswick Logans Run Marathon
Two weeks back from TransAlp and you would think that the last thing on my mind would be considering racing another marathon…. you are so WRONG! Well not really, when I entered Deswick Logans Run it seemed like a really good idea, a chance to race my beautiful Bianchi Methanol 29er on what are rumoured […]
Naomi’s Blog: Euro 2012, the wash-up
A four hour train trip from Riva Del Garda to Munich is the perfect opportunity to reflect on Europe 2012. That said, I have a strange feeling that I am not really sitting in my seat and I may get booted out any time around Bolzano but until then I have a window seat, no […]
TransAlp Stage 7: A Race of Attrition
The Craft Bike Transalp is known for being a tough race, 8 stages of racing through the Alps, a total distance of 619.41km with some 21,091hm and a maximum height of 2737m. Thrown into this is the fact it is a teams race, two riders constitute a team and for the team to finish both […]
Transalp Rescue Team – Keeping you Riding
Craft Bike Transalp is now in its 15th year and, since its inception, Andreas Hamel has headed up the Transalp Rescue Team. An event of this magnitude could not be without an experienced and efficient Rescue Team but few of us consider the ‘behind the scenes’ preparation, unless we are one of the few requiring […]
TransAlp Stage 2: Imst to Ischgl in the box
The day started in the TransAlp Camp which is an interesting experience in itself, especially for a female. The camp is comprised of a large open hall divided by bags and bed mats stuffed to capacity with, predominantly male, Euro mountain bike riders. This in itself is not a bad thing, but when they start shuffling […]
Naomi’s Blog: Riding and racing with mates
This year I have the privilege of being on a cycling team, the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team, with a manager (Mike Blewitt) and team mates (Kath, Graeme, Tate, Stu, Will and Werner), it is a motivating and inspiring experience. I started cycling purely and simply because I like to ride my bike. I started racing because it […]
Mountain biking in Germany: Follow your nose
The really nice thing about Germany is that you don’t really have to know where you’re going to find yourself somewhere. Europe trip 2012 began in Munich and the selection of my first nights accommodation was somewhat random, based merely on location and price. I had to be close to the airport as my Subaru–MarathonMTB.com […]