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What a beautiful part of the world. The town of Schladming, nestled deep in the mountains, but we wouldn't get to see much of it today. The forecast was, unfortunately, right. Rain. Non stop all day with the mountains shrouded in cloud cover. Quite a contrast to the heat yesterday, basking in SS...
The Alpentour Trophy is on next week 9th - 12th June. Our Endurance Ed, Scott, is heading out. 4 stages, 'only' 195km, but 8800m of climbing, with a 14km uphill TT for stage 4. That's straight up a mountain, 1100m of climbing! It is all based out of the picturesque, Austrian town of Schladming, not...
Hadleigh Park sits on an exposed ridge overlooking the Thames estuary and can be windy even on a calm day, with mainland Europe being battered by storms the mountain bike track was taking the full force being lashed by gale force winds and sheet rain. Setting up the course was a challenge with the...
Tweedlove has rapidly become one of the most popular and well attended Bicycle Festival in the UK. I was lucky enough to work at the International Enduro and, at the weekend just gone, take part in the Glentress 7 lapped endurance race. For newbies to this style of racing (and, refreshingly,...
If you see me in the next few days, I may be staring into space with an odd smile on my face. This is what happens when you achieve a goal. Whether it be getting up a climb you never thought you could, completing your first Sportive, conquering a section of scary trail or completing a World Cup...
The Manx Mountain Bike Club’s annual Two Peaks XC race took place on Sunday 29 May in brilliant sunshine. This event has been run on the Isle of Man for almost 30 years with just a few hiccups for bad weather and Foot and Mouth. The old school type of course which is based around two main...
Round 3 of the Essex Summer Evening Series was a new style of event this year's series, to mix things up a bit organisers Travers Bikes decided to run an XC Eliminator with a few tweaks. One of the tweaks was that you didn’t get eliminated! They thought it was only fair that everyone got the same...
It has been amazing to watch just how this event has developed over its past 5 editions. From humble beginnings with a cap of 270 riders, it now welcomes nearly 550, with a good number of elite riders and strong riders across all other categories. Its popularity and renown is such that it now...
It has been a few years since I last raced at Albstadt, the last time being my very first U23 World Cup, back then being a part of the GB Cycling team as a rider on the Olympic Academy program. A lot has changed since then and I was excited to be returning to World Cup level racing again at the...
I had a break from racing cross country mountain biking last year and I watched the World Cup races from the comfort of my sofa with a little sadness in my heart. I had given up the buzz, the excitement and pure awesomeness that is the World Cup Circus. After many chats with my friends, family and...
Machynlleth served up a wet and wild weekend in mid Wales combining everything that’s best about mountain biking, bikes, beer and mates gathering together to take on the Dyfi Enduro. We were pretty glad to have recently taken the path of caravan ownership and on race weekends like this it proved...
Round 2 of the Essex Summer Evening Series was held on Tuesday night at the infamous 2012 Olympic MTB venue now renamed Hadleigh Park. All riders started at 19:00 with a minute gap between groups just as the evening was starting to cool down in stark contrast to the riders who set off at a...