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June 28, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

How to make your paired stage race a success

Here at MarathonMTB.com we are firm believers that paired stage races create some of the best mountain bike experiences. Mountain biking is often viewed as a sport for individuals – and it is. But mountain biking also offers so many things that are best experienced with others. The general rhythm of a stage race means […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: cape epic, cape pioneer trek, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Pairs, pairs race, Stage Race, Swiss Epic, the pioneer, Transalp

June 26, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

8 things you should know about the new Canyon Lux

Canyon Lux Alban Lakata

A few months ago we put together a feature on what we could pick up from phots of the new bike Canyon team riders were on. But we still had questions. What was the geometry? What was the travel? The weight? Canyon have just released all that information. There are 6 models of the all-new […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: alban lakata, bikes, Canyon, canyon lux, marathon, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, outside, Shimano XTR, sram eagle

June 21, 2018 By Gordon Wadsworth Leave a Comment

Epic Rides Carson City Offroad- “Fast times and Hot lines in the Rush for Gold”

Epic Rides brought another “good day on the bike” to Carson City Nevada this past weekend. The Carson City Offroad is the third in their four race series and the last even in the Western USA before the series heads to the deep south for the Oz Trails weekend in Bentonville Arkansas. While new last […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, carson city, chloe woodruff, epic rides, flume trail, MarathonMTB, mountain bike

June 16, 2018 By Scott Cornish Leave a Comment

Raid Evolénard

Related Event: Raid Evolenard

Based out of the commune of Evolène at 1380m in the Valais region of Switzerland , the Raid Evolénard is a weekend of mtb events of varying lengths for all ages and abilities with the main 62.5km race attracting a high level of competition including numerous pro/elites. A course worthy of hosting the Swiss National […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, biking, evolene, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, Raid Evolenard, scott cornish, Switzerland, Valais, VTT

June 12, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Sky high in Sri Lanka

Related Event: Rumble in the Jungle
Rumble in the Jungle MarathonMTB

The sense of impending doom that lay over me from the early hours of this morning can’t be underestimated. After two stages of the Rumble in the Jungle stage race I keep feeling like I’ve got to the finish by the skin of my teeth. I probably feel like that after any stage of any […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, report, rumble in the jungle, sri lanka, Stage Race

June 6, 2018 By Scott Cornish Leave a Comment

Previewing the Costa Blanca stage race

Costa Blanca MTB stage race MarathonMTB Scott Cornish

Warm winter sun, dusty trails, singletrack, technical trails and an official race hotel, the Cap Negret,  right at the beach’s edge, what’s not to like? This is the Costa Blanca Bike Race, held at the end of January in Altea on the southeast coast of Spain. Utilising the surrounding coastal mountain range, it’s 4-day stage […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Bike, biking, costa blanca, costa blanca bike race, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Stage Race, Travel, UCI

June 5, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Time for something new

Related Event: Rumble in the Jungle

When I set up the MarathonMTB.com website in late 2010, it was only because I had countless hours of help from a friend. By help, I mean he built it, designed it, and continues to look after the site to this day. I just had a concept. After working, riding, racing and travelling for the […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Bike, mountain bike, rumble in the jungle, sri lanka, Stage Race, Travel

May 28, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Bike Check: Jolanda Neff’s Kross Earth

MarathonMTB Jolanda Neff Kross Earth Shimano XTR M9100 Bike check. Photo: Phil Gale

Jolanda Neff is one of the most exciting and dynamic riders in cross-country racing. She is the reigning XCO World Champion and won the XCM World Championships in 2016. Neff has also confirmed she will ride the Whaka 100 in New Zealand this October. Since riding for Kross Neff has been on a Kross Level hardtail, […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: BIke Check, biking, cross country, dt swiss, Jolanda Neff, kross bikes, Mitas, mountain bike, Shimano XTR, XCM, XCO, XTR

May 27, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Johnston and Harris cinch Port to Port 2018 titles

Related Event: Port to Port MTB
MarathonMTB Port to Port

The final day of the 2018 Port to Port promised to be many things. It would be on of the shorter stages at 45km, and the flattest with only 570m of climbing. But it would also have some of the best trails, and be the only stage that would take us from one point to […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Port to Port, Stage Race, XCM

May 26, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Potter wins, Johnston claims the lead at Port to Port

Related Event: Port to Port MTB

Stage 3 of the Port to Port MTB Race is known for a hard but fun course. And with an update to the start it meant we would be racing sooner and not in a neutral escort on the road for as long. And with everything on the line for the open men’s race and […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: biking, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Port to Port, Shimano, Stage Race, visitnsw

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