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Stage racing offers a lot to people who choose to pursue some of the World’s best Mountain Bike Stage Races. It is difficult to share the entirety of the experience, but there are some things that are easy to relate to: our five senses. Many of these will relate directly to Marathon Mountain Biking too, […]
I can’t help but raise an eyebrow when people say they’re “just riding for fun.” When is riding not fun? I think what they’re trying to express is that they’re riding for giggles not sheep stations. It’s a way of sounding cool when you’re really being soft. At last weekend’s Mont 24 Hour in Canberra, […]
Stage 3: Robertson – Calendon. 143Km, 2900m Climbing Stage racing involves a unique skill set. When doing a shorter weekend stage race, or one based out of the one town (like the Alpen Tour Trophy or ICME) you can get away with a few more things. But for the longer point to point stage races, […]
Yesterday was, for me at least, one of the hardest days I’ve done on a bike. Feeling OK for 30k of a 115k stage isn’t really enough – 85k with my brain boiling in 40-plus degree heat had me in the box in a big way. And it’s never nice knowing that you’re holding your […]
ABSA Cape Epic, Stage 1: Robertson – Robertson. 115Km, 2350m The ABSA Cape Epic has a reputation for being tough. With such a high percentage of finishers in 2011, it’s hard to think that course setter ‘Dr Evil’ felt that he had a reputation to uphold. Today’s stage that started and finished in Robertson was […]
Any bike race involves preparation. It’s more than just pinning a number on – especially when you move towards a HCS ranked Stage Race. The ABSA Cape Epic has just started, at Meerendal Wine Estate in the Western Cape Province. The sun is blazing, the helicopters are buzzing, and euro dance beats are pumping out […]
With the ABSA Cape Epic travel epic out of the way, and the ensuing recovery process underway, Will Hayter and myself have begun the count down to the start of our race day: 8:07am on Sunday 25th March. We will take to the start ramp at Meerendal Wine Estate for the 27km prologue with 900m […]
Last year wasn’t a good one for finishing big races – a broken collarbone brought an end to team-mate Mike Blewitt’s and my Absa Cape Epic campaign in 2011, and then my Craft Bike Transalp was cut short by a bunch of highly professional Italian thieves half-inching my lovely Scott Spark. The silver lining […]
A very familiar line from a familiar song, to most. The jungle of Australian mountain biking, with it’s thick canopy of events will be a difficult one to negotiate this year with the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com. There is just so much racing that hand picking a calendar of events for the year has been a daunting task. Although if […]
And here we go again – finally! Australia doesn’t lack for Marathon Mountain Biking opportunities, with a plethora of classic races, and an ever growing calendar of Stage Races. But is racing somewhere within a days drive enough to satiate a desire for new experiences? Probably, for some. That’s how I started finding a love […]
