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January 21, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Hometown heroes shine at 2019 Attakwas Extreme

Attakwas XCM MarathonMTB

Pyga Euro Steel’s Matthys Beukes has been crowned Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme presented by Biogen Champion for the second consecutive time. In the elite women’s category, 46-year old Yolande de Villiers (Team Altes Landhaus powered by Madmacs Kawasaki) stormed to victory to become the oldest winner of the country’s “toughest one day mountain bike race.” The event doubles as […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Attakwas, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, pyga, south africa, XCM

January 19, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Hynek and Fagerhaug partner for Cape Epic

With the end of the Canyon Topeak Factory Racing team for 2019, the team’s riders are all doing different things. Sally Bigham has retired, Alban Lakata has joined Team Bulls, and Kristian Hynek has just announced he has joined Vitalo – Future Cycling. The 2014 Absa Cape Epic winner will race the 2019 event alongside […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: cape epic, Chocolate, kristian hynek, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, XCM

January 16, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

UPDATED: Scope O2 carbon MTB wheels

Scope O2 carbon MTB wheels review MarathonMTB

UPDATED! In the middle of 2019 we had an email from The Netherlands asking for the Scope Cycling O2 wheels to be sent back for some hub updates. It was a simple enough request, and the carbon wheels had tyres removed and were boxed up and collected by courier. Something was in the works, but […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: carbon wheels, Dutch, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, scope cycling O2, Scope o2, Stage Race, XCM, XCO

November 30, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

The Pioneer Stage five – Final stage brings a few surprises

MarathonMTB Pioneer Epic Series

Tired legs roll out of Bannockburn This morning we got up before dawn and munched through breakfast in the dark. It’s always unbelievable to me that, given my usual appetite, when we get into the depths of a stage race I find myself completely without interest in food, so that eating is stripped of any […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: central otago, epic series, MarathonMTB, MTB, New Zealand, pioneer, queenstown, Stage Racing, XCM

November 29, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

The Pioneer Stage 4 – Mt Difficulty and other difficult climbs

MarathonMTB Pioneer NZ Photo: Tim Bardsley-Smith

Click. Beep. Click. Beep. Click. Beep. Ok I’m definitely in my smallest gear, but how is that possible? I’ll just check again. Beep. Yep. Shit. Getting going again Today Mike and I started Stage four of The Pioneer with the goal of making it to the first feed zone, then reassessing things after our nightmare […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: bannockburn, central otago, Marathon mtb, mountain biking, MTB, pioneer, Stage Racing, XCM

November 27, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Pioneer hits the Alex trails for the Queen Stage

Imogen Smith MarathonMTB Pioneer NZ

Why is it that we only crash when things are great? All those awful, cold, wet grovels where you’d pay good money for a legitimate Out, nothing. Nothing goes wrong. Except maybe a flat tyre, but that’s fixable. Now when you’re ripping through trails, performing well, loving it – that’s when life deals you a […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: central otago, crashing, injury, MarathonMTB, mountain biking, pioneer, Stage Racing, XCM

November 25, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Pioneer Prologue-2018 event kicks off in challenging conditions

Related Event: The Pioneer

Cold. It was cold. We got up at 5:10am, which if you’ve just arrived from Australia feels a lot like 2:10am, and bolted some breakfast before heading for the first shuttle up to Coronet Peak, the ski station that towers above Queenstown and just happened to be under a whole lot of snow just a […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: coronet peak, mountain bike, pioneer, queenstown, Racing, rude rock, Stage Racing, XCM

October 18, 2018 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

Croc Trophy Update; Switch of Swiss in GC lead!

Related Event: Crocodile Trophy

Stages 4 and 5 of the 2018 Crocodile Trophy brought with it a shake up in the General Classification lead for Men and Women. The first 3 stages took riders over the great dividing range to the small town of Herberton which was the starting point for the stage 4 Individual Time Trial, a 38km […]

Filed Under: Crocodile Trophy Tagged With: Crocodile Trophy, Far North Queensland, marathon mountain biking, MTB, ridecairns, Stage Racing, Tropical North Queensland, XCM

October 12, 2018 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

Stage set for 24th Crocodile Trophy in Cairns

Related Event: Crocodile Trophy
Crocodile Trophy MarathonMTB

The iconic Crocodile Trophy has long established itself as one of the most difficult and spectacular MTB stage races on the calendar. Somewhat of a pioneer in this format of MTB racing The Crocodile Trophy has seen many adaptations since it’s first edition in 1995 that ran from Darwin to Cairns. The race now takes […]

Filed Under: Crocodile Trophy Tagged With: Atherton, Cairns, Crocodile Trophy, Epic, Konny Looser, MarathonMTB, MTB stage racing, Stage Race, Stage Racing, urs huber, XCM

September 16, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Langvad and Avancini win 2018 XCM World Championships

Related Event: 3Epic
XCM Worlds MarathonMTB

Annika Langvad won her 5th Marathon World Title today, as Brazilian Henrique Avancini won his first Marathon World Title. Both riders would no doubt have thought the victory in the XCM World Championships was even sweeter after the XCO World Championships in Lenzerheide. With the courses set as 89km for women and 102km for men, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: annika langvad, Bike, henrique avancini, MarathonMTB, XCM, xcm world championships

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