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February 23, 2020 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

Nankervis gets redemption at Great Otway Gravel Grind!

The Great Otway Gravel Grind that happens the day after the famous Otway Odyssey is quickly becoming a drawcard event in itself. For many it makes a long trip even more worthwhile with the opportunity to attain 2 days of quality racing. Which from a training perspective is hugely beneficial to any rider training for […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Forrest, Gravel, Gravel Grind, great otway gravel grind, Otway, otway odyssey, Peta Mullens, Rapid Ascent, Tasman Nankervis, Trekky, Victoria

January 22, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

7 things you should know about the Otway Odyssey

Related Event: Otway Odyssey

In a time when Australia is losing some classic marathon races, our National Championship is a glorified XC race run on laps in a bikepark, and there is increasingly less focus on elite athlete development from the governing body – it’s worth giving credit where credit is due. One part of that is appreciating how […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Bike, Forrest, Gravel, Gravel Grind, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, otway odyssey, Rapid Ascent, Victoria

May 16, 2018 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

Gravel or bust at the Michigan Coast to Coast

Related Event: Michigan Coast to Coast Gravel Grinder

The sport of a cycling used to be a reasonably straightforward and easy to follow sport. There was road racing with track and cyclocross being the winter alternatives. Also since the 1990s there has been mountain biking with usually either XC for the fitness oriented shaved leg variety of rider and downhill for the more […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: camelbak, camelbak chase bike vest, Gravel, Gravel Grind, Justin Morris, MarathonMTB, Michigan, Norco, USA

September 23, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

The Otway Odyssey returns for 2017 – with a Gravel Race

Giant Odyssey, Justin Morris

In a nod to the growing interest in ‘gravel grinding’ and adventure rides, the organisers of the always epic Otway Odyssey have added another range of events to make an amazing weekend of off-road cycling. In 2017 the Otway Odyssey will be presented by Focus, and celebrates its 11th year of long distance mountain bike racing in […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: focus bikes, Gravel, Odyssey, Otway, Victoria, XCM

February 15, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Tortour Cyclocross race captured by Winterberg

Tortour Cyclocross

The inaugural Tortour Cyclocross race was a perfect start and a crowning finale of the cyclocross season: From 12 to 14 February 2016, almost 90 athletes from 10 different nations competed in the event in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, the first-ever multiday ultra cyclocross and gravel stage race in the world. The race was clearly dominated by Swiss riders. […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Gravel, Switzerland, Tortour Cyclocross

December 23, 2015 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Thomas Frischknecht lines up for Tortour Cyclocross race

Thomas Frischknecht, one of the most successful mountain bikers of all time, is going back to his roots. ‘Frischi’ began his career as a cyclocross pro in the early 90s, and will be competing in the first edition of the Tortour Cyclocross from 12 to 14 February 2016 in Schaffhausen – the first multi-day cyclocross and gravel […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Cyclocross, frischi, Gravel, tortour

November 11, 2013 By Arran Pearson Leave a Comment

And now for something Completely Different…

Back in ‘the day’, MTB events were few and far between in NSW – we had the Working Week series of 8hr endurance races (five 8hr races – a working week geddit), a Sydney 12hr and 24hr, the Dirtworks (now Convict 100), the Highland Fling and probably most made the annual pilgrimage to Canberra for […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: City Bike Depot, Gravel, Rapha, Road, Tour Divide

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