Scott, our endurance race Ed is out at Club La Santa racing their 4 day stage race and being part of the official Cape Epic training camp in readiness for racing the real thing in March. It all starts Friday. The volcanic mountain bike adventure kicks off once again this Saturday at Club La...
A new stage race for 2016, the Epica Chile. 5 stages crossing the Atacama desert to the pacific coast. A race for the adventurous! Check it out for more info Epica Chile
How do you fancy six days riding sublime singletrack in the Canadian Rockies next summer? TransRockies Events – the organisers of Singletrack 6 and Moab Rocks – have teamed up with UK bike marketing company, Red Cloud, to offer riders from this side of the pond a discounted entry for this...
Wetherby Station to Port Douglas 30 km / 350m of climbing. The TT stage. The Crocodile Trophy has everything you could ever imagine riding on a mountain bike – steep descents, long climbs. Technical singletrails, wide open roads. Rocky and sandy sections. Rainforests and bush. Outback and...
Skybury Coffee to Wetherby Station 101 km / 1400m climbing Ryan is holding his own amongst the high level of athletes. Stage video here The penultimate stage, a mostly flat 108 kilometres on dirt roads through the rain forest. Like every night here I slept well in the tent, got nine...
Irvinebank to Skybury Coffee Plantation 127 km / 1300 m Today would be the longest stage of this years race at 127km but having had a look at previous years race times I knew that it would be a pretty quick stage with chunks of gravel and even tarmac roads with only a small amount of...
Ryan Sherlock legs were feeling good today for stage 6; Irvinebank to Irvinebank 100km / 2700m of climbing I woke to find my body felt great - how did it turn out to be a bit of a disaster of a day… The race FINALLY started at a slightly more sedate pace for the first five kilometres -...
Lake shoes are synonymous with cycling, around as long as I have been riding bikes, and that’s quite a long while. I remember having some top end Lake mtb shoes back in the late 90’s. The orange, red and black ones with straps and classic laces. The shoes weren’t overly light, but then they...
Bikes and post race beers. Now in its 5th year, the Halo Bristol Oktoberfest is the season ending race for many, set on the same iconic trails as the Summer Bikefest and sharing the same cracking atmosphere and buzz. It may lack the high temperatures and dusty trails of mid summer, but it has an...
Ryan Sherlock gets comms back! Here is his stage 5. Okay, day five of the nine day stage race - surely today we will take it a little more gentle at the start. At 95 kilometres and close to 3,000m of climb we will ease ourselves into it… Ehh, no. From the start Nicolas attacks like it is a 90...
Stage 4: Atherton to Atherton through the Great Dividing Range 80km with 2200m of climbing. Ryan Sherlock is keeping it consistent for another top 10 finish. Urs Huber continues his winning streak as does local rider Sarah White. Check out the stage 4 video The Swiss Urs Huber now extends his...
Stage 3 took riders around Atherton Mountain Bike Park, 77km with 1500m of climbing. Check out the video here. Ryan Sherlock did a great ride for 8th. After being incinerated on Stage 1 I requested Mother Nature to turn down the heat a little, she kindly did for Stage 2 but on the 15km neutral...