With just 95 days to go until the world’s most prominent mountain bike stage race, Australian mountain bike racers Imogen Smith and Briony Mattocks have confirmed they will team up for the women’s category at the 2020 Absa Cape Epic in South Africa. Imogen is a part-time writing and media professional and full-time academic. Imogen […]
Mariske Strauss joins the CST Sandd Bafang team
Mariske Strauss will join the CST Sandd Bafang MTB Racing Team in the Olympic year 2020. Mariske will be the 3rd female rider to complete the CST Sandd Bafang MTB Racing Team , next to Yana Belomoina (UKR) and Anne Tauber (NED). This makes the team one of the strongest mountain bike teams on the […]
MarathonMTB.com at The Pioneer in 2019
With the 4th edition of The Pioneer starting this weekend in Queenstown, New Zealand, one of the most recent team pairings could also be one of the most competitive! While originally the MarathonMTB.com Team would comprise founding rider Mike Blewitt and Sebastian Jayne, young Tasmanian Sam Fox will now be joining Sebastian for the 6-day […]
Scott-SRAM take the big guns to the Cape Epic
This year SCOTT-SRAM MTB-Racing’s Nino Schurter and Lars Forster stormed to victory in the Absa Cape Epic. After they lost 6 minutes and 45 seconds to a major puncture on Stage 3, many thought it would not be possible for them to win the title. But they raced hard and were agressive – gaining back […]
Transalp announces 2020 route
The Transalp mountain bike stage race is on again from 5th-11th of July 2020, with a new route from Nauders in Austria to Riva del Garda in Italy. The 23rd edition of the MAXXIS BIKE Transalp shows that the spirit of discovery is not yet exhausted. The 2020 course runs on less frequented and rugged […]
Cory Wallace raises money for Nepal mountain bikers
If you know who Cory Wallace is, you know how passionate he is about riding and racing in the high mountains – and Nepal is at the heart of that. Cory has been at the centre of setting up and organising funding for the training centre for Nepali cyclists, and has organised a major training […]
All about the Madeira Bike Race
Be honest, do you even know where Madeira is? The Portuguese island located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean has been carving its way to become one of the best mountain bike destinations in the planet, noted for the freeride scene and of course hosting rounds of the Enduro World Series. The small island […]
Ramses Bekkenk heads back to The Munga
Ramses Bekkenk will enter into adventure in South Africa by riding ‘The Munga’ again. The race with mainly headwinds over 1070 kilometres from Bloemfontein to Wellington has to be ridden within five days. All participants racing have to decide how often and how how long they stop at one of the five race villages along […]
Big wigs to contest Whaka100
The 13th edition of Emerson’s Whaka100 Mountain Bike Marathon presented by CamelBak is taking place this weekend in Rotorua, New Zealand. With over 1400 people signed up for the race across all distances, it is shaping up to be the biggest one yet! The packed schedule of events serves up something for everyone, including the Rotorua Isuzu […]
Wrapping up the 2019 Cape to Cape
Cape to Cape, Port to Port and Reef to Reef are some of the best promoted mountain bike races in Australia at the moment. But does that mean they are the best? That is something worth thinking about, as it really depends what you define as best. This has been my fifth visit to Western […]