Updated August 2017! “What are the best stage races to do?” It’s a question that is often asked, and can be broken down many different ways. What makes a race ‘the best’ anyway? It’s a very personal criteria. While one may rate the quality of accommodation available, others might go purely on the amount of […]
Huber targets XCM Worlds
Current world number two Urs Huber and a gaggle of the Swiss star’s Team Bulls team mates are eager to charge at this year’s UCI MTB Marathon World Championships. Huber is no stranger to the South African MTB scene after numerous Absa Cape Epics and a handful of MTN National MTB Series legs, Grape Escapes […]
Nove Mesto World Cup Race Preview
Their food tastes a little different, and I am yet to taste the Czech Republic’s dirt but their single track that weaves across that dirt is some of the best I’ve ridden. Full of roots and natural doubles. It is loads of fun to practice on and should be a great track to race on come […]
Alice Springs Essentials – Tips for racing in Australia’s Red Centre
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I’ve been to Alice Springs, in Australia’s red desert heart, to race five times now, I love it so much it’s never hard to justify going back Stage racing out in the Alice Springs desert brings some special challenges with it, so as I’m writing reviews of the trails and getting ready to deliver race reports, […]
What a Marathon racer learnt from the Cairns World Cup
I didn’t expect to come away from watching the Cairns UCI MTB World Cup with anything other than a feeling of inadequacy. I was there with a green media pass around my neck to report for Australian Mountain Bike magazine on how XC racers are dealing with the increasing ‘gnarliness’ of World Cup tracks – […]
More photos: Cairns UCI World Cup XCO
Check out our on-course pictures from cross-country racing at the 2014 Cairns World Cup. If you missed the first set of images, click here. And to read a report on each of the 4 races, please visit here.
Photos: XCO Day at UCI World Cup Cairns
The superstars of the cross-country mountain bike world put on a show in Cairns. The day began with victories to Helen Grobert (Germany) and Victor Koretzky (France) in the under-23 races, before Italian Champion Eva Lechner put on an emphatic display to win the Elite women’s race. Julian Absalon then put on a display to […]
Photos: Cross-country warm up at UCI World Cup
The global mountain biking community has its attention trained on Cairns, Queensland this weekend. The cross-country stars are set to shine on Sunday. Saturday gave them a chance to scope the course.
2014 Absa Cape Epic review and wrap-up
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2014 Cape Epic review A big adventure What an adventure. For a very small minority of the participants, the Absa Cape Epic is a race, pure and simple. Nino Schurter, Jose Hermida, Rudi van Houts, Christoph Sauser – those guys are all racing, throwing it down every day for eight days, sprinting for stage wins, […]
Tips for racing a mountain bike time trial
It’s pretty common these days for a mountain bike stage race, even a marathon stage race, to include a short TT leg, usually by way of a prologue. Mountain bike TTs give riders a chance to thrash out some of their nerves, and from a race director’s perspective are useful for sorting out seeding safely, […]