An audacious attack by Annemiek van Vleuten surprised the entire Crocodile Trophy field on today’s stage six – only young Stef de Louwere from The Netherlands went with her. Stage win for de Louwere, van Vleuten finishes second outright. Huber keeps overall race lead ahead of Carabin with two stages to go. Right from the […]
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Catching up with the 2016 Crocodile Trophy
It’s Wednesday, and the 2016 Crocodile Trophy has been going for four days, and racers are into the 5th day. So far we can see that the Swiss Bull, Urs Huber, is super strong, but Belgian Sebastien Carabin is marking him when he can. The women’s race has been up and down, with the mountain […]
Belgians take the Crocodile Trophy lead
Related Event: Crocodile Trophy
If it’s October, it must be Crocodile Trophy time. And Cape to Cape, and Brazil Ride. It’s a busy month for major stage races! But the action in Tropical North Queensland has been hot from the gun. The 22nd Crocodile Trophy kicked off with a brutal stage 1 today in Cairns. The Crocodile Trophy elite […]
Fortune favours Kleinhans and Beers at Cape Pioneer Trek
The tides are turning at the Cape Pioneer Trek, as South Africans Erik Kleinhans and Matt Beers turned up the heat even further on Thursday to win Stage 4 of the Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race; as overall leaders, Gawie Combrinck and Nico Bell, lost a chunk of their advantage when they […]
Kleinhans and Beers hit back at Cape Pioneer Trek
Mountain bike stage races are excellent for arm chair athletes. You can go back to the real world at work and home, then tune back in and realise these warriors are still clashing swords on a daily basis. And on stage 3 of the Cape Pioneer Trek, the prologue winners were back on top. Erik […]
Bell and Combrinck beat giraffe at Cape Pioneer Trek
Stage One of the Cape Pioneer Trek would always be the real deal, where racers would flex their endurance muscles and reveal what they had in store for their competitors for the week ahead. But did anyone expect such a start from Bell and Gawie? Off the bike, Nico Bell and Gawie Combrinck are soft-spoken […]
Gold Standard – La Tramun UCI Marathon
I’ve been lucky enough to visit some great places and events this year but La Tramun is now the gold standard for race courses. Part of the UCI World Marathon Series for the first time the Girona based event has grown a reputation over the past 18 years for its technically challenging trails. A week […]
Kleinhans and Beers take the lead at Cape Pioneer Trek
Late entrants Erik Kleinhans and Matt Beers were rewarded for their spontaneity when they won the opening stage of the 2016 Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race in Mossel Bay, South Africa on Sunday. Competing as Team Full Sus/Topeak Ergon/Red-E, the South African pair sped around the scenic oceanside 13km prologue stage in […]
Europeans ready to attack Cape Pioneer Trek
There’s a strong European challenge mounted for the 2016 edition of the Cape Pioneer Trek mountain bike stage race, which starts in Mossel Bay on South Africa’s Western Cape coast on Sunday 16th October. The seven-day event, which carries International Cycling Union (UCI) status, has seen the overall titles in the men’s race swing back and […]
The Simpson Desert Bike Challenge – looking back
One week on from finishing the epic Simpson Desert Bike Challenge has offered me time to reflect upon what I learnt during the 9 day adventure and 5 day race. The race is something so unique to every other mountain bike or road stage race, it offers not only a hard yakka 5 days of racing […]