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August 9, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

Breck Epic Stage 3- Send or be Sent

    12050 feet (3672 m) is an inhospitable place. Breck Epic riders found out first hand on today’s 3rd stage of the 2018 Epic. Riders circumnavigated Mt Guyot via trail and primitive road; crossing the North American Continental Divide twice. The first climb up to the Divide took riders through Big French Pass at […]

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August 8, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

Breck Epic Stage 2- Drama and Danger aboard the Colorado Trail

Stage 2 of the Breck Epic sent riders out onto the Colorado Trail for their first taste of the high mountain singletrack. Riders Pedaled a brisk pace out of downtown Breckenridge CO towards the gravel access roads or Brewery Mtn before descending to the Galena Ditch trail which traversed towards Keystone resort and the Colorado […]

Filed Under: MarathonMTB.com, Reports Tagged With: Amy Biesel, Breck Epic, canyon topeak factory racing, jeremiah bishop, MTB stage race

August 6, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

Breck Epic Stage 1-Let the Games Begin

Breck Epic racers awoke to the pitter patter of rain upon the rooftops. The threat of rain loomed which had for the finish line moved up in the forecast and fell all evening and into the morning. After the 6:15AM decision to postpone the race by 2 hours promoters shortened a 35 mile day to […]

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August 5, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

Welcome to Brexico! Breck Epic 2018 Preview

Gold sent settlers into the Rocky Mountain’s “Ten Mile Range” in the 1850s, and Gold brings Americas most talented and stoked stage racers to the steeps of Breckenridge Colorado for the 10th Breck Epic stage race. The singletrack heavy 6 day race sends riders from the valley floor (9500 ft, 2900m) into the thin rocky […]

Filed Under: MarathonMTB.com, Reports Tagged With: Breck Epic, Breck Epic Stage Race, Brexico, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, Topeak Ergon

June 21, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

Epic Rides Carson City Offroad- “Fast times and Hot lines in the Rush for Gold”

Epic Rides brought another “good day on the bike” to Carson City Nevada this past weekend. The Carson City Offroad is the third in their four race series and the last even in the Western USA before the series heads to the deep south for the Oz Trails weekend in Bentonville Arkansas. While new last […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, carson city, chloe woodruff, epic rides, flume trail, MarathonMTB, mountain bike

May 24, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

Epic Rides Grand Junction Offroad

There are two ways to win the Grand Junction Offroad; “be a natural born climber or have bigger balls than anybody else.” And that pretty aptly fits the course description of the Grand Junction Epic course. With the Albstadt World Cup taking many of the regular competitors and previous winners away from the 2nd round […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Colorado, epic rides, EpicRides, grand junction offroad, Howard Grotts, katerina Nash

May 1, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

Epic Rides Whiskey Offroad Wrapup

Epic Rides put on their first of 4 Epic events this weekend with the Whiskey Offroad collection of pro and amateur races in Prescott, Arizona in the USA. The 15th running of the race had over 1500 amateur racers attend Saturday’s event and 150 Mens and Womens professionals toeing the start lines. Amateur racers were […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: AnnikaLangvad, EpicRides, GordonWadsworth, KeegenSwenson, Prescott AZ, Whiskey, Whiskey50, Whiskeyoffroad

April 29, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

Epic Rides Whiskey Offroad Fat Tire Crit

The Epic Rides Series Whiskey Offroad features both amateur and professional events; with the pro riders required to participate in Friday Night’s downtown fat tire criterium format race in order to be eligible for the cash payout of Sunday’s marathon race. Friday’s crit is the perfect foil to the aptly named “epic” on Prescott Arizona’s […]

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April 20, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

A Decade of Dirt, The 2018 Pisgah Stage Race Wrapup

The stage racing hangover is as real as any substance abuse hangover. Every part of the body aches, the sense of time and place is less certain than on a regular-day. And the mess you’ve got to clean up is substantial. But unlike any other hangover you’ve got all the memories from the incredible experience, […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Gordon W. Wadsworth, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, Pisgah, Stage Race, USA

April 8, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

Roots, Rocks, Repeat- The Pisgah Stage Race Cometh

The Good Book tells that God led Moses to the top of Mt Pisgah and from there showed him the Promised Land. For mountain bike riders and racers on the east coast of the US of A the Pisgah range in North Carolina is also the Promised Land. A Promised Land of ancient Appalachian mountains […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Pisgah, Pisgah Stage Race, PMSR, Quadsworth, Race Reports, Stage Race

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