Defending champion Chris Wolhuter and teammate Craig Boyes made an early break to race to a comfortable victory on the opening stage of the Liberty Winelands MTB Encounter on Friday. Despite the relatively short ride of 54km between Coetzenburg in Stellenbosch and Le Franschhoek Hotel on the outskirts of Franschhoek, Wolhuter said there was plenty […]
Mullens and Johnston add extra XCM titles to palmares
Related Event: Australian XCM Championships
All photos from Russ Baker/MTBA The 2016 Australian XCM Championship headed to Derby after the small town of barely 200 people first hosted the race in 2015. While the trails have been extended and have bedded in nicely, it’s still a small town in North East Tasmania that is earning a reputation around Australia for […]
Masters Racing at Australian XCM Championships
Related Event: Australian XCM Championships
With the Australian XCM Championships arriving in Derby, Tasmania for the second year running, it was another time when racing would run over both days of the weekend. As such, Masters racing and other non-elite categories races today on the Saturday. Given the dry summer season the trails in Derby were dusty and in prime […]
Leonardo Paez and Annabella Stropparo win 2016 Volcat Stage Race
Related Event: Volcat GP
After 3 days of racing across the Easter weekend a total of 524 cyclists completed the Volcat GP, a UCI category 2 event. Sadly I was amongst the none finishers having picked up the bug on stage 2 which left me too ill to race stage 3. The 2 days I did experience though were […]
One hot lap – Easter in the Alice stage 4
Related Event: Easter in the Alice
They say you’ve got to be careful what you wish for. Just before heat-induced delirium set in about half-way through today’s stage I reflected that I’ve been walking around for years trumpeting my taste for hot races. Well, today I got what I wished for and more on the final stage at Easter in the […]
Easter in the Alice Stage 2 – The Mt Gillen Beast
Lasseters Easter in the Alice is in its third year, but this time around organisers have departed from their usual format to introduce a hill-climb stage for the first race of day two, which is traditionally split into two stages, with a night race in the evening. Locals have long been familiar with Mt Gillen, […]
Blair and Smith win MTBA XCM Round 2
Related Event: Easter in the Alice
The second round of the Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA) XCM Series ran today as stage one of the Lasseters Easter in the Alice Mountain Bike Muster. The ‘Bunny Buster’ is a 90km trek through the rough, rocky, and often flowy singletrack of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory. 2015 XCM Series champion Andrew Blair was triumphant […]
Australian National XCO Championships 2016
All photos by Robert Conroy Brewing for three years, the 2016 Bright National Championship XCO course, by all accounts, had been aged to perfection. Flowing singletrack gave way to technical rock rolls that dropped riders into collapsed mine networks and spat them out onto tough steep climbs with rewarding berms tall enough to swallow a […]
Karl Platt Claims 5th Absa Cape Epic Crown
Related Event: ABSA Cape Epic
Twelve years after claiming his first Absa Cape Epic title Karl Platt today became only the second person to win the event five times when he and Urs Huber (Bulls) calmly sealed a dominant victory. And in a gripping race for the Women’s category, Ariane Kleinhans and Annika Langvad (Spur-Specialized) sealed their third successive title […]
Cape Epic Stage win for Periklis Ilias and Tiago Ferreira
Related Event: ABSA Cape Epic
Periklis Ilias and Tiago Ferreira notched up a thrilling debut Absa Cape Epic stage win on the trails of Stellenbosch today as Sabine Spitz and Yana Belomoina fired another shot across the bows of the women leaders. Greece’s Ilias and Portuguese teammate Ferreira (Dolomiti Superbike) became the fourth team to claim a stage win at […]