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A single day marathon requires travel, accommodation, and dedication to making sure everything goes right on the day. But thankfully there’s a new crop of events that are appearing, and growing in strength. 2-4 day mountain bike festivals are gaining favour as a way to use your weekend and maybe another day or two to […]
Norco Bicycles has announced the roster for the 2017 Norco Factory Team, which includes returning riders Haley Smith and Peter Disera, along with newcomer Quinton Disera. With a history of success in North American competition, the 2017 Norco Factory Team will compete for the first time on the full UCI World Cup circuit, as well as […]
Bike Buller has been growing and evolving over the past years, and it would be easy to look at the line up and think there isn’t as much to offer the cross-country or marathon racer as there used to be. But that would be wrong. While many of the newer events are gravity focused, the […]
Where do Australia’s finest athlete’s come from? One would presume it is from the bustling metropolis’ that offer the greatest access to resources, wealth and opportunity. However a brief investigation of Australia’s most successful athlete’s made me realise that a disproportionate ratio of our athletes are of rural rather than urban heritage. In fact […]
After 3 days of racing across the Easter weekend a total of 524 cyclists completed the Volcat GP, a UCI category 2 event. Sadly I was amongst the none finishers having picked up the bug on stage 2 which left me too ill to race stage 3. The 2 days I did experience though were […]
The options for MTB racing seem limitless at the moment. Coming into March, a mountain biker based in the South East of Australia has a plethora of bike races to attend. National Championships, the opening rounds of two different Marathon series, lap based endurance races, club cross country, stand alone marathon events… it’s a long […]
In just under a months time racers will flock to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus for the 2014 edition of the Cyprus Sunshine Cup. This year the event will consist of two rounds with a 4 day Afxentia stage race (February 27th – March 2nd) taking place a week before a single day cross country […]
Hamelin Bay hosted the finish of stage 1, and consequently the start of stage 2. What we know of beach resorts is that they are sea-level, meaning a climb to get out. Sure enough, the first 3km of bitumen pretty much just went up. A few snapped chains under the pressure (probably ruined in the sea […]
