Words: Amy Henchoz I’m just gonna say it. Hardtails are awesome. When you can tame them. The feeling of smashing it down a descent when you and the bike are perfectly in tune, feeling everything the bike feels and accepting the abuse, using it to your advantage to feel where the grip is and just […]
A return to international travel, and writing blogs
Last year while I travelled overseas, I wrote blogs for MarathonMTB. It was a great way for me to solidify the memories I made, and to reflect on the journey at the same time as sharing it with friends and family.I hadn’t been planning on doing the same again this year, until someone (other than […]
King Island: An untapped cycling gem
Team rider Justin Morris recently took to the remote island of King Island with his CX bike to explore what the island had to offer,
Livign(o) life large in Europe
It can be a lonely experience racing in Europe no matter who you are, but especially so as an Aussie or Kiwi. We travel thousands of kilometres by ourselves, to the opposite side of the world, to race usually alone, with little contact with our family and friends back home. So it’s been a great […]
Les Get(s) into some more World Cup racing!
It was always the plan to push through the first month of races in Europe with training, however its always disheartening to feel like you’re going backward at each race. So I was looking forward to my second world cup, and a recovery week. Car troubles World Cup round four was situated in Les Gets […]
Aussies at Swiss Cup in Savognin
Following my first two races, I was keen to put a proper week of training in again and hopefully find some legs before the next race in Switzerland. The first order of business was buying a fan (the mechanical kind, not the people), to get a good night’s sleep in the heat, and a pillow […]
MarathonMTB return to Europe
After over a year since any of the MarathonMTB team were overseas, Sam finally managed to fight through the red tape and escape to a European summer, and his first World Cup season
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 […]
Bike racing and training with Type 1 Diabetes
Cycling was not always my passion or my career in life, as a matter of fact at the age of 10 all I could dream about was one day being a pilot! I used to watch fighter pilot movies, play pilot video games and my bedroom wall was platered with posters of jet fighter planes! […]
Why it’s time to enter the next bike race.
The last bike race I did was the Arabian Epic Series Jordan Stage Race. I flew in and flew out, nursing a few niggles from a silly crash before leaving, which made it all a little uncomfortable on long haul flights! It was probably in the following weeks that I truly realised what an amazing […]