Momsen Factory Racing’s Dylan Rebello and Team Ascendis Health’s Robyn de Groot completed stage and general classification victories in very different styles on Stage 3 of the 2016 GR300. Rebello road his heart out to drop the chasing pack having been outsprinted on Stages 1 and 2 by Craig Boyes, while de Groot had done […]
Boyes and de Groot Claim First Stage of the GR300
Stage 1 of the 2016 GR300 and GRLite kicked off in fine style, on a beautiful Knysna morning, with a neutral zone cruise through town before racing got underway with the Ultimate Cycling Knysna Simola Dash. After 80km of racing with 1 650m of climbing the first stage was won by Craig Boyes in a […]
Hellas Salamina – Greek mountain bike racing
Salamina. A little island only a short ferry’s hop from Greece’s capital Athens. It’s not at the top of the list when people choose Greek Islands for their holidays, but it was our destination for the sole reason of mountain biking. The Hellas Salamina spring series provide an early opportunity for racers to hone their […]
James Williamson Memorial: Johnston and Sheppard take solo wins
Related Event: James Williamson Enduro Challenge
Today was the 6th running of the James Williamson Enduro Challenge, an event that has been held in memory of James after he passed away at the 2010 Cape Epic. Proceeds from the popular race are used to support a range of activities to develop junior mountain bikers in New South Wales and the ACT […]
Snowies MTB Festival Wrap
Related Event: Snowies MTB Festival
Looking at the schedule before the Snowies MTB festival started, I was unaware just how quickly 5 stages of racing could make 3 days disappear. Every day seemed to be action packed with either eating, warming up, or going full gas through exhilarating alpine singletrack! The final day of racing involved a return trip down […]
Sheppard and Ward take Snowies MTB Festival titles
Wellington’s Samara Sheppard (NZL) raced to a clean sweep of all five stages at the three-day Snowies MTB Festival this Valentine’s Day weekend at Lake Crackenback Resort & Spa in the iconic Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. The 25-year-old Kiwi dominated each stage including the fifth – and final – 45-kilometre marathon on Sunday afternoon […]
Tortour Cyclocross race captured by Winterberg
The inaugural Tortour Cyclocross race was a perfect start and a crowning finale of the cyclocross season: From 12 to 14 February 2016, almost 90 athletes from 10 different nations competed in the event in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, the first-ever multiday ultra cyclocross and gravel stage race in the world. The race was clearly dominated by Swiss riders. […]
Snowies MTB Festival Day 2
Related Event: Snowies MTB Festival
It looks like tomorrow I’ll be going into hell to build a snow man to make the time up on Andy and Kyle. But with many more kilometres to race at the Snowies MTB Festival, as always in stage racing, it’s still all to play for… – 6 hours earlier – Yesterday’s TT around Lake […]
Snowies MTB Festival Stage 1
Related Event: Snowies MTB Festival
Given my affection to mountains, my list of holiday destinations in Australia is not the longest. Living in Bright ticks one great area of the list, and one that I seem to be frequently ticking off these past few weeks is the Snowy Mountains. With the Thredbo National round last weekend done, it was back […]
Thredbo XCO – The two hour tour
After missing the Pemberton rounds to stay at home and tend to my vegetable garden, I was eager to start smashing it at XCO pace again. The Thredbo course was awesome and a whole lot better than the previous editions. With the Dirt Art team at the helm of the development, the new singletrack had […]