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Some places are on our personal race calendars as we have them as a major target. Others are there as you know they always draw a big field, or because you’ve arranged to try something new with friends. Some places make it just because the riding, and racing, ar exceptional. Everyone has their own choices […]
The route for the 2018 Sudety MTB Challenge has been revealed. The event team have been working tirelessly to combine three major changes for the race in 2018. Firstly they wanted to decrease the number of race towns that the race visited, but without compromising the quality of trails in each stage. Secondly the organisation […]
Iceland “the land of fire and ice” is a small island nation lying just south of the Arctic circle in the North Atlantic ocean. It has become a tourist hotbed as people come in droves to see its extraordinary landscape full of Volcanic activity, geothermal energy, glaciers, waterfalls and vast expanses of moon like rock fields. […]
After postponing the 2018 Pioneer in May 2017, many feared the worst. Had a new, epic marathon stage race landed in the Oceania region to only run for 2 editions? Having raced both editions it was clear – they were hard. The climbing, the surface, the conditions – it was a true challenge to get […]
Here at MarathonMTB.com we have a soft spot for Alice Springs. With over a dozen visits between the whole Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team over the past decade, we are repeat offenders when it comes to visiting the Red Centre to ride (and race) our mountain bikes. We often get asked what draws us back, why go again […]
Brazilian Henrique Avancini and Czech Jiri Novak won the 8th edition of Brazil Ride, the biggest mountain bike stage race in the Americas, finishing 5min12 ahead of Italians Michele Casagrande and Fabian Rabensteiner. With this win, Novak has reached the highest place in the winners gallery on the open category, being the first cyclist to […]
With a cross-country stage plan for day 6 of Brazil Ride, many bet there would be a reversal of the changes on general classification. Despite Italian Fabian Rabensteiner’s win, in 1h29min08, Henrique Avancini, fourth of the day, and Jiri Novak, second, snatched the yellow jersey from the Italians, since Michele Casgrande finished fifth, approximately two […]
The 2017 Cape to Cape has been running like clockwork. About 1800 riders have descended into the red dirt, loam, sand and limestone trails of Margaret River, for the 4 stages of racing. Brendan Johnston is leading Open Men and Samara Sheppard is leading Open Women. But, there’s 50km still to go and nothing is […]
For the fifth time in 2017, a different team has won a stage in the eighth edition of Brasil Ride 2017, this time Italians Michele Casagrande and Fabian Rabensteiner decided the win in the final meters, with the two podium contenders crossing, together, the finish line in Arraial d’Ajuda, Porto Seguro. In third, Avancini and […]
The fourth stage of Brasil Ride, the Queen Stage, was a pool of emotions in the region of Guaratinga, in the South of Bahia. Just as in the previous days, the 100-kilometre stage had a new winning team, and a new duo to wear the yellow jersey – showing the high, balanced level of the […]
