Mixed teams racing demands mixed teams tactics, most of which revolve around the chick.  Can she bake good muffins? Is she quick off the gun? And, where it gets dirty, is she prepared to sit out a lap if the team is down a few minutes on the win. Working as a team when riders […]

With only a couple of days now until the Rocky Trail JetBlack/WSMTB Sydney 12 hour race, anticipation is building. We caught up with Subaru-MarathonMTB.com team ring-in, Gary Harwood, to hear his pre-race thoughts and so he could tell us, once again, how pumped he is to be on the team.  Naturally, we’re pretty stoked to […]

Two weeks back from TransAlp and you would think that the last thing on my mind would be considering racing another marathon…. you are so WRONG! Well not really, when I entered Deswick Logans Run it seemed like a really good idea, a chance to race my beautiful Bianchi Methanol 29er on what are rumoured […]

The JetBlack/WSMTB 12 hour at Dargle Farm was one of the favourite races on my 2011 calendar. The race is held on private property and that means that there aren’t many opportunities to race this otherwise untapped circuit. There is a sensible ratio of smooth singletrack to fire road – probably about 50/50. Some say […]

A four hour train trip from Riva Del Garda to Munich is the perfect opportunity to reflect on Europe 2012. That said, I have a strange feeling that I am not really sitting in my seat and I may get booted out any time around Bolzano but until then I have a window seat, no […]

Since 2007 I have enjoyed doing a selection of races in Europe through the months of May until September. Some years it has been more, some it has been less. In 2009, I was accused of just ‘entering everything’ – and the same was said for 2010. Far from needing to race overseas to find […]

  “Grab your helmet and hurry up!” These the words that woke me from a much needed sleep.  An hour later I found myself hanging onto metal railings, high above Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne, where Le Tour de France had made its depart earlier that morning.  Sydney riding buddy, Yvoine McCort, who grew up in the area looked […]

The Craft Bike Transalp is known for being a tough race, 8 stages of racing through the Alps, a total distance of 619.41km with some 21,091hm and a maximum height of 2737m. Thrown into this is the fact it is a teams race, two riders constitute a team and for the team to finish both […]

Incredible highs can bring tremendous lows, and Mountain Bike stage racing is able to deliver this in spades. The week has been full of drama across many categories. Stage one was wet and cold, and a flat tyre suffered by the Topeak-Ergon mens team has had them chasing the lead for days – they will […]

Sport, like many pursuits, involves sacrifice. Not like the multiple human sacrifices made in countries in the past. Chasing sporting dreams or goals involves sacrifices that are a little easier to comprehend, but not always easy to follow. People who pursue lofty goals are familiar with the kinds of sacrifices involved. They are not always […]