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Port to Port is back and bigger than ever. Now in its third year, and now boasting a field of about 600, riders set off on the traditional sandblasting stage one today from the gorgeous marina in Nelsons Bay, dolphins playing in the water beside us. The first stage of Port to Port is always […]
The Belgium Mountain Bike Challenge might only be 3 days but it’s impossible not to get wrapped up in it. Eat, race, eat, sleep, repeat. The post race depression quickly kicks in as reality strikes. No sooner had we finished the final 6 hour stage we were on the road driving the 8 hours back […]
Jacks Ridge XXX, in northern NSW’s coastal town of Nambucca, has been steadily increasing in popularity year after year. The lap-based marathon takes in almost all of Nambucca’s Jacks Ridge trail network, a 13.5km loop repeated 8 times for a total of 108km race distance (or 90km if, like me, you have a GPS unit that prefers to […]
Tomorrow the fifth edition of the Belgian Mountain Bike Challenge, in short the BeMC, will kick off in La Roche-en-Ardenne. During three days and 260 km covering 7800 meters of climbing over 500 participants from almost 20 different countries will fight for the final victory. I’m currently sat in our accommodation with 2 nervous Brits, […]
I wasn’t supposed to race the Convict 100 – not at all. Instead, I was supposed to be at a team training camp with my road team to prepare for the NRS race Battle on the Border. BUT it turned out that I was going to be in Canberra last week for some skills training […]
The world of XCO racing is about to go full gas for a few months, in the run up to World Championships through the World Cup, and then onto the Olympics in Rio. As the first round, the UCI XCO World Cup in Cairns was going to be intense. And today it didn’t disappoint. While […]
By Mike ‘Riot’ Tourond The 2016 XCMountain Bike race season kicked off with the Homage to Ice (H2i) on April 16 at Dufferin County Forest. Even up to one week before the race, it looked like snow storms were going to leave the trails a mess. However, the organiser, Substance Projects, along with an […]
Croatia is becoming more than just a holiday location – it is becoming a mountain bike destination. The 4 Islands MTB stage race on the islands Krk, Rab, Cres and Lošinj that finished this weekend attracted many mountain bike racing enthusiasts, both professionals and amateurs, from all of the world. There is a certain charm of combining […]
Chris Wolhuter and Craig Boyes sealed the overall win after cruising to their third consecutive stage victory in the Liberty Winelands MTB Encounter on Sunday. The Imbuko-Freewheel Cycology pair, who had an 18-minute buffer going into the final day, completed the 48km final stage around Kleine Valleij in Wellington in 1:58:45. Hanco Kachelhoffer and Colin Noel […]
Photos: Russ Baker Bendigo is a regional centre in Victoria built upon the Gold Rush of the 1800s. Now with all the gold dug out of the ground it has become a hot bed of cycling talent. Like was mentioned previously in Armidale, NSW, the town of Bendigo has created and continues to create some […]
