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April 13, 2015 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Tested – FRM foam grips

When you go for a ride you’re only actually in contact with the bike at three points – your hands, your seat, and your feet: these are the three areas where most people, especially those new to riding, will experience discomfort. Getting your seat position right is a matter of a good bike fit and […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: contact points, foam grips, FRM, MTB

April 9, 2015 By Richie Tyler Leave a Comment

Whyte 29-C: The Mongolia Bike Challenge Bike Build

Related Event: Mongolia Bike Challenge
Whyte's full carbon 29C ready for the Mongolia Bike Challenge

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 […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: Mongolia Bike Challenge, MTB, Stage Race, Tech, Whyte

April 8, 2015 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Entries rush in and prize pool surges for Golden Triangle Epic

Scheduled for Sunday the 26th of April, the Golden Triangle Epic will see riders from all around the country descend on Bendigo for one of the biggest mountain bike events on the Victorian race calendar. Riders can choose from 15km, 50km, and 100km course distances, and there’s even a 100-mile category for those up to the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bendigo, Epic, MTB

April 5, 2015 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Lasseters Easter in the Alice: Day Two

Related Event: XCM Series: Easter in the Alice

All photos thanks to MTBA President Russ Baker. Day two of the Lasseters Easter in the Alice was a split stage. You either love them or hate them. The need to go “full gas” twice in one day is by no means beyond the capabilities of a trained cyclist – but it’s a mental load. […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: LEITA, MTB, NTevents, Stage Race, XCM

April 2, 2015 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

International field set for joBerg2c

Related Event: Joberg2c
Keen mountain bikers can now sign up for the three, six or nine-day versions of the Old Mutual joBerg2c, which starts in April next year. Here riders depart from Sterkfontein Dam in Free State on day four of the nine-day journey across South Africa. Photo: Kelvin Trautman

If you’ve done the Cape Epic, chances are you’ll be told by a local that you really need to do the Old Mutual joBerg2c – it’s true mountain biking and more fun. That’s usually a tough piece of information to take, say on day 5 of the Epic. Over 100 foreign mountain bikers from 20 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: joberg2c, MTB, south africa, Stage Race

March 18, 2015 By Phil Welch Leave a Comment

MBC: More Than A Bike Race, A Journey of Discovery

Related Event: Mongolia Bike Challenge

A bewildering number of mountain bike stage races exist across six continents. Some claim to be the toughest, others the most scenic, while a few boast of being the greatest. Nevertheless, one race which appears to stand alone, in extraordinary ways, is the Mongolian Bike Challenge. Having raced the event in 2013, Phil Welch explains some […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Mongolia, MTB, Stage Race

March 10, 2015 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

First eMarathon to take place in Italy

Since the inaugural Ziener BIKE Festival Garda Trentino powered by Mini, innovation, development and progression have been the keys to success of the three-day mountain bike event. In 2015 and for the first time in history, the growing branch of e-biking finally gets its share with the first ever eMTB Marathon epowered by Bosch presented […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ebike, Garda, Lake Garda, MTB

March 8, 2015 By Sebastian Jayne Leave a Comment

Lakes Entrance Epic

Does the family want a holiday but you want a bike race? Well, the Lakes Entrance Epic, run by Alpine Gravity may be your salvation. The second edition of the race will descend on the picturesque seaside locale in Gippsland, Victoria on May 2. The weekend is set up to be a prime family vacation. With numerous family orientated […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Lakes Entrance, MTB, XCM

March 5, 2015 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

The Pioneer: New MTB Stage Race in Southern Alps

Related Event: The Pioneer

Australia and New Zealand have the terrain for epic stage races. We just don’t have many of them besides the Crocodile Trophy. But news has just broken about a new stage race that is taking the Cape Epic mould and applying it along the Southern Alps of New Zealand. The Pioneer was officially launched today […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: DiscoverNZ, MTB, New Zealand, Stage Race

March 3, 2015 By Mike Blewitt 1 Comment

Bendigo’s Golden Triangle Epic set for Australia’s best

Bendigo might well be the hub for Australian performance cycling. After Canberra, anyway. With the likes of Peta Mullens, Chris Hamilton, Tasman Nankervis, Jarrod Moroni, Dan MacMunn and countless NRS level roadies calling Bendigo home, the per capita “pro” count is pretty high. With just two months to go to the kickoff of the 2015 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bendigo, MTB, XCM

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