Arran Pearson has just returned from the Tour Divide. This is the third part of his story. You should read part one and part two to catch up. Although there is a lot of climbing in the first 1/2 of the route, it’s in Colorado where you hit serious altitude with several passes over 10,000 […]
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Racing the Tour Divide: Strength in Numbers
Last week, we first heard from Sydney-based rider Arran Pearson, about heading off to Banff to start the Tour Divide, and like the route, the story continues… The rest of the first week is pretty much a blur – I spent the first few days just getting used to the riding and was managing to […]
Racing the Tour Divide
Well, its been about three weeks or so since finishing the Tour Divide MTB Race, and its probably taken me about that long to process to a point where I can write about it. Since I got back the two most common questions people have asked are ‘How was it?’ and ‘Are you going […]
What do you carry for the Tour Divide?
What? Once people get past the sheer ‘why would anyone want to do that?’ thing of an adventure like the Tour Divide Race, the next series of questions delves into a series of discussions about what sort of gear you need to carry with you in order to do it. Basically carrying gear on a […]
Why Ride the Tour Divide?
Why? It’s a question I’ve been getting a lot lately. Closely followed by ‘are you insane?’ and not to mention my personal favourite ‘Idiot.’ See, later this month (June 14th to be exact) I along with approximately 120 other nutters will be lining up for what is often referred to as the toughest bicycle race […]
Tortour Cyclocross – the cyclocross stage race
It has just been announced that endurance racers have a new winter racing option. The Tortour Cyclocross is the first multi-day cyclocross and gravel stage race in the world and premieres in Schaffhausen from 12 to 14 February 2016, organised by TORTOUR GmbH. The new ultra-format covers a distance of 202 km and an elevation gain […]
Luke Fetch wins the 2011 Tour de Timor
Back-to-back wins for Malaysia on stages five and six, but it was Australian Luke Fetch who held on for overall victory and a big payday in Dili
Monaro Cloudride 1000 rolls out this Easter
Related Event: Monaro Cloudride 1000
The south east region of Australia hosts a new ultra endurance mountain bike event this Easter. The Monaro Cloudride 1000 is an ultra endurance bikepacking event where riders compete against the clock riding solo, self supported, self timed, navigating over a prescribed off-road route on fire trails and forest roads for 1000 kilometres before arriving back […]
The Munga Announces Pro Rider Entrants
The race that has all sorts of endurance cycling enthusiasts and racers talking is The Munga. With a prize purse of $USD1 000 000, a long point to point format, and the wild country of South Africa to race across, it’s a captivating proposition. Today, the Munga have announced a number of top riders that have […]
The Rigid Stromlo Project
They say that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it… or to put it another way, you think I would have learned from the last time I was silly enough to try and ride my bike packing rig for 5 long laps of Stromlo. Last year as part of my preparations for Tour […]