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Stage 5 fell after the Queen Stage, but riders weren’t given an easy cruise, with another almost 170km route planned. Under another brilliant blue sky, the riders embarked on another epic day at the 2015 Mongolia Bike Challenge. With 168km to ride, today’s stage was just 7km shorter than yesterday’s Queen Stage, making for another challenging […]
Every stage race has a stage that glares at you from the race handbook. Big distances, big kilometres – a long and hard day on the bike. While the 2015 Mongolia Bike Challenge has no easy days, Stage Four was certainlt the Queen Stage, with 175km and 2450m of climbing. Starting off from their overnight Stage […]
The tales from the Mongolia Bike Challenge are often those of an epic nature. Epic distances. Epic struggle. Epic vistas. And epic reward. It’s quite possible that the third stage of the 2015 Mongolia Bike Challenge will also be known as truly epic. The 135km stage started along a trail known from previous editions for being […]
The Mongolia Bike Challenge is more than a bike race. Ok, it is actually still just a bike race. But it offers a lot more than many mountain bike races. THe Mongolia Bike Challenge offers a unique way to see the Mongolia environment and culture, and no matter what your speed, the speed of a […]
I’m sitting in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport en route to Ulaanbaatar for the Mongolia Bike Challenge. And a challenge it will be. I was searching for a way to explain the race to friends a few days ago in terms they could understand. “I’m essentially riding Sydney to Melbourne next week. On a mountain bike.” It […]
I’m getting on a plane to Mongolia next month and I’m taking Whyte’s 29-C with me. I’m approaching the Mongolia Bike Challenge with a heady mix of apprehension and excitement. The race is 856km. Based on some (rough) guess work, I’ll spend upwards of 40 hours of my time in Mongolia on board the 29-C. […]
At 856km, the Mongolia Bike Challenge covers some serious mileage. Sitting down to consider the nature of the course, which includes vast tracts of double track trails as well as some 13,400m of climbing, Mike and I had forever enjoyable task of putting together a bike for me to take on the Challenge. Enter the […]
Organisers of the 2013 Genco Mongolia Bike Challenge suspended stage 3 of the event after on Tuesday, as heavy overnight rains caused flooding along the Tuul River. The stage was suspended just 40km into the 148km stage from the banks of the Tuul River to racers’ campsite (Kavcir Ganga), with rains bringing cooler temperatures and […]
Matt Page has made a plan to tackle the hardest races in the world. Although it is often argued what they are, having raced the Crocodile Trophy, Iron Bike, Grand Raid, Andalucia Bike Race, and now the Mongolia Bike Challenge (amongst a host of others) he’s on his way to ticking them all off. Having […]
