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Designed to attract mountain bikers from all over the country, the Hellfire Cup enters into its 3rd year for 2015. It’s a stage race, but it’s a little different to your average mountain bike stage race. And after you meet event organiser Duncan Giblin, you’ll understand why. First and foremost, the Hellfire Cup is primarily […]
I’ve heard a lot of stories about the Hellfire Cup – I’ve edited or published many of them. I’ve also heard a lot of asides from riders about the Hellfire Cup. I heard the first year was pretty hard going, as the near biblical volumes of rain tore the event site apart, and much of […]
In Spain, the stage racing season starts early. The Andalucia Bike Race has quickly become more than an early season form finder. It’s high paced, high stakes racing for many of the world’s elite marathon, cross-country and stage racers. The sixth edition of Andalucía Bike Race has opened for registration until the 31st of January […]
At last the weather was kind to Cape to Cape racers, with a mild, sunny start to the final stage of the 2015 race at the Colonial Brewery. It was a quick start through a long road stretch, which soon turned to gravel, then rougher double track as riders headed towards the first superb singletrack […]
The overall race leader Urs Huber won his sixth stage at the 21st Crocodile Trophy at Wetherby Station ahead of Denmark’s Soren Nissen, Nicholas Pettina, Brendan Johnston and Ondrej Fojtik. Elite female Sarah White and amateur woman Kristin Endres rode together, still in the overall lead of their respective categories. The penultimate stage of the […]
We’re three-quarters of the way through Cape to Cape 2015, around the time in any stage race, no matter how long, when cracks begin to appear. There was clearly less concern for things like warm-ups this morning at the race start, some tired faces, and a few racers sporting badly laundered kit shadowed with Margaret […]
What a difference a day makes. Today’s start for stage 2 of the 2015 Cape to Cape started under rainy, grey skies as showers swept in over Hamelin Bay, providing a welcome change from yesterday’s searing heat. The stage started with a long road and gravel climb, which quickly turned to singletrack, before taking in […]
Urs Huber once again is able to break-away from the lead group towards the end of today’s race, taking his fifth consecutive stage win this year. Soren Nissen (DEN) is second, Brendan Johnston (AUS) comes in third and the Austrians Islitzer and Grick are fourth and fifth, respectively. Urs Huber defends his overall leader jersey […]
The Cape to Cape’s eighth edition got underway today under perfect blue skies in WA’s Margaret River region. Over 1,000 competitors from across Australia formed a massive, multi-coloured snake stretching for hundreds of metres beneath Cape Leeuwin’s historic lighthouse. Today’s stage, while the shortest at just 42 kilometres, was also widely touted as the race’s hardest, with […]
The Swiss Bull, Urs Huber, claimed today’s stage win at Lake Tinaroo ahead of Denmark’s National Marathon Champion Sören Nissen and yesterday’s winner, Nicholas Pettina (ITA). The Australian XCM Champion Brendan Johnston finished in fourth with double-Crocodile Trophy winner Ondrej Fojtik from the Czech Republic. The Australian elite female, Sarah White, increased her race lead […]
