Melissa Anset is a well know name in Australian mountain biking but now she’s put the mountain bike aside for a few weeks and has a crack at the 2014 Cyclo Cross World Championships in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands. After watching her friends compete during the 2011 and 2012 Dirty Deeds CX Series in Melbourne, she […]
Owning up to winning
Today, Tasmanian MTB rider Ben Mather won one of our oldest stage races, four brutal, muddy days in Tasmania’s wilderness: Wildside and his Facebook update caught our eye – ‘OMG,’ he wrote ‘I just won Wildside!’. It’s exuberant, and it runs contrary to a trend that I’ve noticed over the last few years, and one […]
Lifting the Veil on Mt Baw Baw
Mt Baw Baw sits just 2.5hrs drive from Melbourne, yet even when you’re over an hour away you feel like you are in some seriously remote country. Driving in through Noojee, the Valley of the Bridges, Icy Creek and Tanjil Bren was unlike any other road I’ve driven on to a ski resort. The temperate […]
Report No. 39 – Inquiry into Cycling Issues
The rift between motor vehicle drivers and cyclists sharing the road is a self perpetuating continuum of angst for both parties and unfortunately it is the cyclist, the more vulnerable party, that often pays the ultimate price. I cycle and I drive, I have had a near death experience thanks to the ignorance of a […]
The effect of music on athletic performance
This is part two of three of a small series on music and riding. Here’s Part One, in case you missed it. My own, highly subjective and anecdotal, experience is that music definitely helps me train. But I was interested to know what the science behind this might be, partly triggered by an excellent article from […]
Riding with music
Do you or don’t you? Along with helmets, Campag /Shimano / SRAM, and what do you think of Lance [oh, hold on, we seem to have resolved that one…], the question of whether to ride with music or not always has the ability to divide opinion. Even such luminaries as Bradley Wiggins have expressed their views. […]
2013 Camelbak Highland Fling form guide
The Highland Fling – it’s the marathon race of the year for an awful lot of people. Practice rides on the open parts of the course at Wingello are frequent, training progammes are designed to ‘peak’ for this weekend, and bikes are booked in for services in the weeks leading into it. There is no doubt […]
The Amy Gillett Foundation wrestles with the Crocodile Trophy
What do crocodiles and road safety have in common? Well, not much usually, other than it is generally safer inside a vehicle if a crocodile happens to be on the road, but this October added a new commonality to the pairing. Australia’s leading voice in road safety, the Amy Gillett Foundation, teamed up with the […]
Big Hitters Arrive for the Crocodile Trophy
The 19th Crocodile Trophy starts this Saturday with a cross country race at Smithfield in Cairns. As the world’s oldest mountain bike stage race the Crocodile Trophy has become known as one of the hardest and most adventurous races around. This year more than 80 riders will race for 900 km through the Outback and […]
Who’s who at the Cape to Cape
For a few years now mountain bike stage racing in Australia has been growing. Whether it was Terra-Australis, Mountains to Beach, The Red-Center Enduro or even Wildside in Tasmania – racers had a few options, but there never seemed to be one that hit the nail on the head with location, time of the year, […]