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 […]
CRC MTB Marathon early start
‘Just one alarm snooze’ is what I told myself when my alarm when off at 4:00am Saturday. It was the Abergavenny round of the CRC MTB Marathon event and we had to load bikes and leave London at 5:00am for Wales. Between snoozing sessions I noticed that the weather forecast was still showing thunder storms. […]
Ryan Leech’s MBC Experience
An opening day of rain transformed a technically easy stage into a black diamond challenge: pay attention or slide out! Each kilometer was loaded with speed scrubbing mud, pedaling downhill was often essential. Any extra bodily energy was used to maintain body heat, but extra energy was scarce. “This wasn’t in the brochure” one racer […]
MTB Powertap wheel
In my search for a Powertap wheel, to track my training more accurate on a mountain bike, I recently came across the guys from Strada Wheels. I found out that all their wheels are hand built locally by Darren, who trained with Mavic in the UK and DT Swiss in Switzerland. The fact that he […]
Matt Duggan’s Blog: An eventful few days…
With the weekend prior to the Black Mountains 3 Day mainly consisting of dragging my bike through a field of mud at ‘Mountain Mayhem’, it’s safe to say I was certainly looking forward to actually riding my bike for a change. Arriving at the campsite Friday evening for the time trial, I was keen to […]
A return to Awaba
At briefing a lovely young guy sidled up to me. ‘You’re a great rider’. He said. ‘Who me? Thanks!’ Still got it. ‘Yeah, I really liked your blog.’ Oh. Writer. Never mind. All that stuff I said in my previous post about the Rocky Trail Enduro was wrong. Different location, different sort of track, and […]
Justin Morris’ Blog: Catch you Latte USA!
Summer time in the USA and the latest season of ‘The Bachelorette’ is heating up, with ‘Emily’ meeting the families tonight! Apart from quality TV viewing Summertime means many things to the locals here. Summer camp for the kids! Frappaccino’s for the starbucks frequenters, big money criteriums for the bike racers and ‘knee high by […]
Chris Hellman’s Sella Ronda Hero
This race report has been provided by Melbourne based racer Chris Hellman, who is currently in Europe racing some of the toughest Mountain Bike Marathons. If you were to imagine the most spectacular race setting imaginable, it would pretty much look exactly like the Sella Group of mountains in the Dolomites – huge exposed granite […]
Liam O’Dea – back to Kowen with a Singletrack Mind
This race report has been provided by bearded endurance rider and racer Liam O’Dea. A fan of all things singlspeed, especially with a fine ale. A couple of weeks ago I caught up with Mike Blewitt of MarathonMTB in the pub after the Australian Marathon Championships held at Mt Stromlo. I’d just had a bad […]
Imogen Smith’s Diary: Support in the pits
This entry has been provided by Imogen Smith, an accomplished MTB racer, who is sneaking some more racing back into her full time academia. The first thing I need to say is that, as exciting as it is, the upcoming Rocky Trail Shimano MTB Grand Prix Enduro at Mt Annan is NOT the main reason […]