Not all stage races are created equal – and some stand out for the food, some the racing, some the extreme terrain – and others just for the trails alone! The 2016 edition of the KAP sani2c is approaching and with yet another fully subscribed event race founder ‘Farmer Glen’ Haw and his team have […]
Blair and Smith win MTBA XCM Round 2
Related Event: Easter in the Alice
The second round of the Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA) XCM Series ran today as stage one of the Lasseters Easter in the Alice Mountain Bike Muster. The ‘Bunny Buster’ is a 90km trek through the rough, rocky, and often flowy singletrack of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory. 2015 XCM Series champion Andrew Blair was triumphant […]
Cannondale reveal new 29er full-suspension bike
Related Event: ABSA Cape Epic
After Cannondale launched their new hardtail last year, replacing the very popular F29, we had to wonder when the Scalpel would get an overhaul. While the Scalpel has been a very popular bike, it often wasn’t seen as the competitive XC full-suspension bike that it could be. Sure, that’s an opinion, but it’s also one held […]
Swiss dreaming – memories of the 2015 Swiss Epic
Related Event: Perskindol Swiss Epic
The mountain bike year has well and truly begun. Unlike riders in the north, in Australia we receive little respite over the holiday period. We don’t go skiing, we don’t escape to summer climes. We live in the perfect training haven, more or less. So while our whole National XCO Series has been wrapped up, […]
Volcat GP to see 700 participants take to Catalan Hills this Easter
Related Event: Volcat GP
This Easter weekend, 25 – 27 March, the Spanish Catalan Hills will host the 3 day UCI category 2 Volcat GP. This year the town of Igualada will host all 3 stages making it logistically easier for participants. Whilst the Elite race competes for UCI points as individuals the open race is run as a […]
Cape Epic Stage win for Periklis Ilias and Tiago Ferreira
Related Event: ABSA Cape Epic
Periklis Ilias and Tiago Ferreira notched up a thrilling debut Absa Cape Epic stage win on the trails of Stellenbosch today as Sabine Spitz and Yana Belomoina fired another shot across the bows of the women leaders. Greece’s Ilias and Portuguese teammate Ferreira (Dolomiti Superbike) became the fourth team to claim a stage win at […]
Spitz and Belomoina take Cape Epic stage victory
Related Event: ABSA Cape Epic
Mountain bike legend and Olympic gold medallist Sabine Spitz of Germany seems to be taking a liking to the Absa Cape Epic and today she and teammate Yana Belomoina swept to an impressive win in the race’s Queen Stage. Spitz and her Ukranian partner punched the air as they finished the 93km Stage 5 nearly two […]
Cape Epic win for Trek-Selle San Marco
Related Event: ABSA Cape Epic
Day 5 and stage 4 of the Absa Cape Epic was another of disaster and delight. For Team Topeak-Ergon It was a day of disasteras one of the race favourites when Kristian Hynek of the Czech Republic pulled out early on Stage 4 of the Absa Cape Epic after injuring his arm in a crash […]
Drama strikes stage 3 of the Cape Epic
Related Event: ABSA Cape Epic
The third stage of the 2016 Absa Cape Epic brought drama and delight – it just depended what team you were in. Swede Jennie Stenerhag, second overall in the women’s category with South African Robyn de Groot (Team Ascendis Health), collapsed over the finish line after a tough and very hot 104km ride. She was […]
Kleinhans and Langvad snare the lead at Cape Epic
Related Event: ABSA Cape Epic
The second stage of the 2016 Absa Cape Epic was also the 100th stage in the history of the event. As one would expect, it was held in another hot, windless day in Tulbagh. The racing in both the Men’s and Women’s categories was as intense as the heat and the course. The leading men’s Team […]