The Camelbak MULE (Medium to Ultralong Endeavours) is an absolute staple in the Camelbak range, and it really set the bar for hydration backpacks when introduced over two decades ago. It would be wrong to consider the Camelbak MULE as only a bag for the trail riding set – the current version of this lightweight, […]
Preparing for the Snow Bike Festival
Related Event: Snow Bike Festival
The Snow Bike Festival has grown since inception a few short years ago, filling a gap in the UCI mountain bike calendar as a UCI S1 stage race, and also catering for the need for many of us to ride our bikes more often, in more places. Mountain bikes are a tool for travel, adventure, […]
Take a look at the stages for Lasseters Easter in the Alice
Related Event: Lasseters Easter in the Alice
There is a time and a place for stages races to be long, epic stages back to back. But thankfully, that’s not what Lasseters Easter in the Alice is about. The three days of mountain bike racing in Alice Springs is a mix of a long marathon, with two shorter days filled with challenging, hand-built […]
How to change your SPD cleats, but not your position
Mountain biking is one of the best (if not the best) sports in the world, although we’re all probably a bit biased. The rugged environment we get to ride our bicycles through creates so many challenges and many rewards, but also wears out many of the moving parts of our bikes if we don’t properly […]
Erik Dekker to target the ABSA Cape Epic
It seems not long ago the news that Cadel Evans and George Hincapie would race the 2017 ABSA Cape Epic had plenty of people talking. Would they win their age group? How would they go overall? And didn’t the Cape Epic ban riders with previous doping offences? Why Hincapie was allowed to race the Cape […]
TransCape lands a major sponsor for 2018
South Africa is the land of mountain bike stage races, and one of the top events, the TransCape, has received a major boost with the news that Liberty will be the title sponsor from 2018. This is another breakthrough for the seven-stage race, which recently received UCI status and takes cyclists on a 614km challenge […]
Mountain bike tips for road riders
It’s inevitable – in time many road riders find the pursuit of pavement pounding on narrow tyres a little… plain. The enlightened cyclist chooses to ride both on road and off, and if you’ve seen the way and want to expand into the world of dirt, we’re here to help. Mountain biking has a slightly […]
James Downing: For the love of Alice Springs
Related Event: Lasseters Easter in the Alice
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 […]
Sudety MTB Challenge 2018 course is revealed
Related Event: Sudety MTB Challenge
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 […]
Cory Wallace relives the Glacier 360 in Iceland
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. […]