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The Cape to Cape’s eighth edition got underway today under perfect blue skies in WA’s Margaret River region. Over 1,000 competitors from across Australia formed a massive, multi-coloured snake stretching for hundreds of metres beneath Cape Leeuwin’s historic lighthouse. Today’s stage, while the shortest at just 42 kilometres, was also widely touted as the race’s hardest, with […]
Mountain biking can take you to many places, and some areas are always going to be harder to ride than others. Along with mud, wet tree roots and pea gravel – sand can be pretty hard to master. Whether you’re racing in central Australia, in a beach race, or maybe in the Crocodile Trophy – […]
‘Fat bikes’, have long been relatively unheard of in my home country of Australia. However, this year I have found myself living in the truly arctic conditions of a town named Traverse City, Michigan. For 5 months of the year here the temperature struggles to rise above 0C! One would imagine this would be no destination […]
Howies Battle on the Beach is the first bicycle beach race in the UK, and will be held in Pembrey on the Welsh South Coast. It’s the first time a major cycling event has been held at Pembrey Country Park, once a Ministry of Defence playground. So riders will have to ride over ex military tracks, […]
The mountain biking on offer near Alice Springs in Central Australia shouldn’t be a secret any longer. Those who have been know it’s worth it. Those yet to travel to the red centre cannot truly experience the variety of trails on offer right from town. Rapid Ascent run the Ingkerreke Commercial MTB Enduro, and this […]
Today’s Crocodile Trophy stage into Mount Mulligan was decided with a gripping sprint finish. Repeating yesterday’s result, Cory Wallace claimed the victory ahead of Mark Frendo (AUS) and Jiri Krivanek (CZE). Liesbeth Hessens increases her lead in the female general classification. The fourth Crocodile Trophy stage took riders out of the mining town of Irvinebank […]
The 19th Crocodile Trophy starts this Saturday with a cross country race at Smithfield in Cairns. As the world’s oldest mountain bike stage race the Crocodile Trophy has become known as one of the hardest and most adventurous races around. This year more than 80 riders will race for 900 km through the Outback and […]
For a few years now mountain bike stage racing in Australia has been growing. Whether it was Terra-Australis, Mountains to Beach, The Red-Center Enduro or even Wildside in Tasmania – racers had a few options, but there never seemed to be one that hit the nail on the head with location, time of the year, […]
