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This past weekend the UCI category 2 Algarve Bike Challenge took place. The event is a marathon stage race taking place over 3 days. You can read my preview for the event here https://marathonmtbcom.wpengine.com/2016/03/03/algarve-bike-challenge-preview-and-stage-race-catch-up/ The event was a pair’s race so I teamed up with Austrian Uwe Hochenwarter who rides for the Craft Rocky Mountain […]
With offices in Germany, and an uber-strong mountain bike race team starring riders like Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå and José Hermida, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Merida was as Euro as Nutella and headbands. Not so. Merida was founded in the early 70s by Taiwanese engineer Ike Tseng who, it is rumoured, was so incensed […]
It is easy to get jealous of what other cyclists get up to. Sometimes I wonder if the only reason for social media is to make others jealous – the success theatre as my partner would say. And sometimes, what you end up looking at looks good. Really good. When I was in my mid-20s, and […]
The new Evocities MTB Series has been launched, and Orange will be the host for the first of the seven race series that also visits Albury, Western Sydney, Bathurst, Dubbo, Tamworth and Wagga Wagga. Mayor of Dubbo, Councillor Mathew Dickerson said he was excited that the Evocities MTB Series was able to secure Fairfax Media as […]
Rapid Ascent have just announced that the 7th Bike Buller MTB Festival has expanded to 14 mountain bike events in the one long weekend. Plus a trail run in there for the multi-sporters out there. The race will be taking place at Mt Buller Victoria, 7-9 March 2015, and utilises a lot of the best purpose built […]
The Port to Port MTB race will be returning to the Newcastle region in 2015, running from Thursday 28 – Sunday 31 May. After theFollowing on from the success of the inaugural event held earlier this year, which saw 300 recreational and professional riders participate, Port to Port MTB is quickly reaching the heights of sister event, Cape […]
Across the weekend Wingello State Forest, in the Southern Highlands of NSW, turned on perfect winter weather and set the perfect stage for performers taking part in both the Night and Matinee 3 Ring Circus mountain bike races. The Night Performance (Saturday 26th) Over 100 riders blazed a trail of light in the forest for […]
Germany Capital: Berlin Dialling code: +49 Currency: Euro Longest word: Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft… It is also the home of Heubach and the Bike the Rock race. One thing I admire about road cycling is the heritage that the big races have. To do a race and think that Eddy Merckx cycled on the same road many years […]
Andrew Lloyd, runner up in last year’s 24 Hour Solo Mountain Bike World Championship, won the Shimano Mountain Bike Grand Prix endurance race on Saturday at Awaba MTB Park near Newcastle. Lloyd completed an impressive 13 laps in just over seven hours and won against a strong Elite Men’s field and also took out the […]
This week has demonstrated just how many things need to work in order to reach the end of an event as tough as the Absa Cape Epic. Obviously your legs need to keep on stomping; but assuming you’ve done the right training, you should be OK. Your bike needs to hold up; which means you […]
