Contenders in the Old Mutual joBerg2c, South Africa’s longest paired mountain bike race, will now compete for prize money on every stage, organisers announced today. The third edition of the nine-day event, which sets off from Heidelberg south of Johannesburg on April 27 next year, will give daily winners a greater share of the increased […]
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Furious 3: Quality Stage Racing
Following the huge success of its first ever 3 day stage mountain bike race in Fernie, Furious3 has announced that it will add 2 more cities to its calendar in 2012, offering racers the ability to compete in both Canada and the United States. With planning already underway for Furious3 Fernie 2012, Mark Kaltenbach, owner […]
Croc Trophy Stage 10: The never ending struggle
Starke – Cooktown: 128km The last day, and we were all ready for it. Last night was later than expected, as dinner was delayed, and therefore the race presentation to celebrate Graeme´s fabulous 2nd place was skipped. Talk abounded of a Gentlemans Agreement for the last stage. We had heard this was customary, […]
Croc Trophy Stage 9: Queen Stage, and 2nd place for Biscuit
Kalpowar – Starke. 148km, 600m Day nine. At this point we were well into a longer stage race than any of us on the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team had done before. Various TransAlps, the ABSA Cape Epic, iterations of the Sudety MTB Challenge, Scody Cups – none of those go beyond eight days in their current […]
Croc Trophy Stage 8: Maddog on the Podium
Laura to Kalpowar: 89km, 200m By the numbers, today could be an easy stage. After the two previous days of torture, a relatively flat sub 100km day was greeted happily by all of us on the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team. It even allowed for a slightly easier day for our Super Team Support crew, Pete Figg, with […]
Arnott places second in Queen Stage
In the Queen Stage of the 17th edition of the Crocodile Throphy, Subaru-MarathonMTB’s Graeme (Biscuit) Arnott stomps home in second place. Not the longest but without any doubt the technically hardest stage had race leader Jeroen Boelen’s name written all over it. The Dutch Milka-Trek rider arrived in Starke some ten minutes earlier than the […]
Sokoll takes out a tactic filled Stage 7
Christoph Sokoll one year after terrible billabong crash / Bernhard Eisel’s training mate wins in Laura. Christoph Sokoll had made a name for himself in cycling already by riding 190km in the front as a first year elite in the 2009 Mendrisio World Championship, which was won by Cadel Evans. Now the mountain bikers know […]
Croc Trophy Stage 7: Pain Train
Stage7: Mount Mulgrave to Laura. 151km Today’s 151km stage had many unenthused faces upon the startline, the 189km previous days stage had put many into a pretty serious hurt locker. The stage today promised less climbing but poorer road conditions than the previous day. With a new race leader in Jeroen Boelen from Milka-Trek, the […]
Croc Trophy Stage 6: Death march
Mt Mulligan – Mt Mulgrave: 189km When people think of the Croc Trophy, and like me say that they will never ever do it because it is just too hard and stupid, they have visions of today’s stage. And it is worse than you imagine. It was so hot I wouldn’t be surprised if I […]
Thrilling sprint finish to stage five in South Africa
Christoph Sauser came across the line third by a whisker to seal a third stage win for himself and teammate Max Knox. Knox had himself only minutes earlier finished second to David George, who crossed the line first on the race’s Queen stage. Sauser faced his own sprint against George’s teammate Kevin Evans, prevailing by […]