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September 4, 2018 By Ben Thomas Leave a Comment

Memories from Norway – Skaidi Xtreme

Related Event: Skaidi Xtreme

Back in November last year I began coaching someone in Norway, he ran a bike race, his passion for the event was obvious from the beginning. It didn’t take much to persuade my fiancee and me that we needed to visit Skaidi Xtreme. Flights booked, we signed on for the ‘Different Experience’ and we were […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: marathon, marathon mountain biking, mountain bike, MTB, Norway, Skaidi Xtreme, Travel

September 4, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Seven

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

What the hell just happened? How did an 8 day stay in Livigno just about come to an end? It seems like so recently that we arrived in Livigno, anticipating epic rides, amazing food, crazy Italians, thin air and mountain scenery. For the most part – Livigno delivered. While we didn’t have seven days of […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude Training, Bike, biking, Livigno, Mike Blewitt, mountain bike, MTB, outside, training camp

September 2, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Five

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

Sitting here on an early Saturday evening, I just realised this is the longest I have spent in Livigno at one time. While in 2013 I came and visited for about 4 nights, headed off to race Dolomiti Superbike, then came back again for another four or five nights, this would be the longest consecutive […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude Training, biking, Livigno, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, outside, Singletrack, training camp

September 1, 2018 By MarathonMTB Leave a Comment

Have you met Ben May?

Ben May MarathonMTB XCM World Championships

Words: Andrew Handyside. Photos: Melissa May The XCM World Championships are nearly upon us and, as any responsible national governing body would do, MTBA have named their athletes who will pull on the green and gold to represent us against the finest the world has to offer. As you know, kitting up for the lads […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Ben May, biking, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, outside, World Championships, XCM Champs

September 1, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Four

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

As Mike and I have been watching the weather forecast like the vital signs of a dying man, we knew today would be a great day to have off. But imagine my disappointment when, after the jubilant excesses of yesterday’s climb to the top of Livigno’s mountains, I woke up again with a painfully sore, […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude, Livigno, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, rain, Training, Weather, wet, XCM

August 31, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Three

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

It’s out third full day up in Livigno, and after Imogen and I went our different ways yesterday, we regrouped for one of the other highly popular activities in Livigno – shopping! It wasn’t a mega spending spree, but we did both buy some headbands, so we could feel the part in the high mountains. […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude Training, biking, carosello 3000, flow trails, Livigno, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Singletrack, training camp

August 30, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Fitting Tubolito tubes for test

Tubolito MarathonMTB lightweight tubes

If you’re a bit of a weight weenie, and chances are you are, then you will probably have heard of Tubolito Tubes. The bright orange inner tubes are pretty special as far as inner tubes go for a variety of reasons. They’re light – 85g for a standard 29″ tube. Tubolito claim they are twice […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: marathonmtb super light, Mike Blewitt, mountain bike, MTB, tubolito, XCM

August 30, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Two

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

Mike and I were always going to go our separate ways in Livigno. For Mike, this is a special place overlaid with memories of gypsyish Euro-tripping bikefests of day-long, epic rides over high passes and into wild valleys, all of which he wants to relive. For me, this is the last chance to get in […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: alititude, Livigno, mountain bike, mountains, Trails, Training, training camp, XCM

August 29, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day One

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

Livigno is many things. It is a duty free shopping hub, an alpine town that is popular for snow sports, a farming village that has had rapid change – and an ever-growing base for altitude training. From runners, cross-country skiers, road cyclists, mountain bikers and more, Livigno offers about 1800m base elevation, with quiet trails, […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude Training, biking, Livigno, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Singletrack, Training, training camp

August 28, 2018 By MarathonMTB Leave a Comment

REVIEWED: C Bear DUB Ceramic Bottom Bracket

C Bear DUB bottom bracket review

This C Bear DUB bottom bracket review has been provided by Adam Cooper from Davy Sprocket. Davy Sprocket specialise in custom bike builds where the finest custom details are all part of the pleasure of the build. If you’ve been following SRAM’s announcements this year you’ll be aware of their DUB bottom bracket system. Designed […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: Bike, biking, Bottom Bracket, C-bear, ceramic bearings, davy sprocket, mountain bike, Review, SRAM DUB, tested

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