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Some places are on our personal race calendars as we have them as a major target. Others are there as you know they always draw a big field, or because you’ve arranged to try something new with friends. Some places make it just because the riding, and racing, ar exceptional. Everyone has their own choices […]
The route for the 2018 Sudety MTB Challenge has been revealed. The event team have been working tirelessly to combine three major changes for the race in 2018. Firstly they wanted to decrease the number of race towns that the race visited, but without compromising the quality of trails in each stage. Secondly the organisation […]
One thing that always accompanies me on a stage race is a good backpack. The convenience of being able to carry all of my essential equipment on planes, trains and automobiles while still having full use of my hands is often an absolute necessity. Or even around camp at a race travelling between dinner and […]
Iceland “the land of fire and ice” is a small island nation lying just south of the Arctic circle in the North Atlantic ocean. It has become a tourist hotbed as people come in droves to see its extraordinary landscape full of Volcanic activity, geothermal energy, glaciers, waterfalls and vast expanses of moon like rock fields. […]
Breaking the mould, WEMBO has partnered with Roma Sports to hold the WEMBO World Solo 24 Hour Championships in Costa Rica MS in July 2019. Roma Sports is best known for their 24 Hour and Brasil Ride events, and Mario Roma is also well known throughout mountain biking as a competitor in stage races all over the world […]
The Highland Fling has, over the past 13 years, become a staple and a classic event on the Australian MTB calendar. The 120km jaunt through the singletrack, forestry roads and farm tracks of NSW’s Southern Highlands has attracted tens of thousands of competitors from around the country and the globe over its existence. Due to […]
This report from the Trans Taurus has been provided by Mark Songhurst. Photos by actiongraphers.com and Mahmut Cinci. I’m in the attractive holiday resort of Kemer, which nestles between the turquoise Mediterranean sea and the Taurus mountain range, from which the cable car station atop the Olympos (Tahtalı) mountain stares down at us from 2,365 […]
After postponing the 2018 Pioneer in May 2017, many feared the worst. Had a new, epic marathon stage race landed in the Oceania region to only run for 2 editions? Having raced both editions it was clear – they were hard. The climbing, the surface, the conditions – it was a true challenge to get […]
With a cross-country stage plan for day 6 of Brazil Ride, many bet there would be a reversal of the changes on general classification. Despite Italian Fabian Rabensteiner’s win, in 1h29min08, Henrique Avancini, fourth of the day, and Jiri Novak, second, snatched the yellow jersey from the Italians, since Michele Casgrande finished fifth, approximately two […]
For the fifth time in 2017, a different team has won a stage in the eighth edition of Brasil Ride 2017, this time Italians Michele Casagrande and Fabian Rabensteiner decided the win in the final meters, with the two podium contenders crossing, together, the finish line in Arraial d’Ajuda, Porto Seguro. In third, Avancini and […]
