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September 18, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Stage 3 of the Crocodile Trophy shocks the field

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Waking on the blustery shores of Lake Tinaroo today was pretty special. The Crocodile Trophy is many things – but it’s often known for the wrong things. Much commentary online has been made about yesterday’s stage and a mistake with course marking – where vehicles couldn’t access the middle section of the course. Few of […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, Crocodile Trophy, erik dekker, mountain bike, Ride Cairns, Stage Race, XCM

September 17, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Scaling the range at the Crocodile Trophy

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Stage 2 of the Crocodile Trophy tends to be when the race truly gets underway – or so say many of those riders who have completed the race before. Unlike Stage 1, which is an XCO race within Smithfield Mountain Bike Park, Stage 2 has a end off from the Esplanade in Cairns. With a […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, Crocodile Trophy, erik dekker, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, tinaroo

September 16, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Bouchard and Smith light up the Crocodile Trophy

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For 2017 the Crocodile Trophy moved to new dates, bringing the race forward to September instead of the traditional date in October. It was hoped that some riders would stay on after the recent World Championships. And while not many did, today it was Haley Smith and Leandre Bouchard from Canada who backed up their […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, Crocodile Trophy, erik dekker, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Ride Cairns

July 30, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Take a look at the 2017 Crocodile Trophy

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Running since 1995, the Crocodile Trophy has a reputation as one of the toughest mountain bike stage races on the planet. But just how well do you know the route? The race’s distance and days have steadily dropped over the past years. And now the 8 day race tackles a compact route based primarily on […]

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October 30, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Huber and Pirard win 2016 Crocodile Trophy

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The 2016 Crocodile Trophy has been a tight battle in the men’s race, and has also had until drama for the leading women. But after eight hard days of racing the Crocodile Trophy racers crossed the finish line on Four Mile Beach on Saturday 29th October. Urs Huber was the fastest man on the time trial […]

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October 27, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Van Vleuten attacks the Crocodile Trophy

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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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October 27, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Huber and Pirard claim stage 5 of Crocodile Trophy

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After a couple of long, tough days the Crocodile Trophy arrived at Skybury Coffee Plantation yesterday – and no doubt the cafe was doing a roarind trade in coffees, milkshakes and other luxury food items. The Queen Stage from Atherton to Skybury was once again decided in a finish sprint between Urs Huber and the Belgian […]

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October 26, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Catching up with the 2016 Crocodile Trophy

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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 […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Croc, Crocodile Trophy, marathonmtn, MTB, Ride Cairns, Stage Race

October 23, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Belgians take the Crocodile Trophy lead

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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 […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Crocodile Trophy, mountain bike, MTB, Queensland, Stage Race

August 24, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Get a taste of the Crocodile Trophy in 2016

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The Crocodile Trophy hangs like a myth in the minds of many mountain bikers. The truth is a long way from the fiction, and we have busted some myths about the Crocodile Trophy in the past. There aren’t countless days of corrugated roads. There aren’t really any crocodiles (ok there were freshwater ones where we […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Atherton, Cairns, Crocodile Trophy, MarathonMTB, MTB, Stage Race

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