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After a bit of juggling, the Quad Crown MTB stage racing series will kick off on NSW’s Sapphire Coast, from 5-7 August. Following a pair of postponements due to Covid and unrelenting wet weather, the Quaddy team are forging ahead to bring a rad event to southern NSW. Race Director Jason Dover tells Flow it […]
Tathra, oh Tathra… Tucked away on the far south coast of NSW, Tathra is a cruisy seaside town harbouring a sensational singletrack secret. Stashed away in the hills that slope down to meet the golden sand is more great trail than you can squirt a leaky hydra-pack hose at. There’s almost 50km of some of […]
Roz & Wil review the 2024 Focus JAM² 6.8 Some of you may recall that earlier this year we reviewed the Focus JAM² SL. We thoroughly enjoyed its well-balanced handling and plush suspension, and the Fazua Ride 60 system impressed us with a surprising amount of power and range for such a lightweight e-MTB. As […]
Revamped and rejigged, the Quad Crown is set to take off at full speed for 2024. Guiding mountain bikers around destinations they may never have ridden before, this year’s venue line-up will feed the adventurous soul. Designed to be a mini version of large-scale events like Cape to Cape or Port to Port, the Quad […]
Flow acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Narooma and Bodalla Forest, the people of Yuin Country. We honour the Yuin Elders of the past, present and future and their connection to lands, waters and communities. Derived from the local Yuin dialects spoken by the Traditional Owners of the area, Narooma roughly translates to clear blue waters, […]
The Quad Crown Black Pearl in Newcastle marked a thrilling end to the 2023 series. This event evolved from the popular Port to Port race and offered an opportunity to explore the diverse trails in the area, blending challenging races with a strong sense of community and social events. Newcastle is also the home of […]
Nestled on NSW’s Sapphire Coast, Eden has long been a destination for those looking to trade the big smoke for a bit of surf and sand during the warmer months. This should not come as a revelation to anyone because…well…just look at the place. While comparisons to the seemingly apparent biblical reference of the town’s […]
Just before the third stop of The Quad Crown, The Orca, pedalled into Eden, NSW, the team behind the event had announced a change in venue for the finale. Newcastle would host the fourth and final event of the 2023 Quad Crown season from 10-12 November. Initially, the final stop on the Series was headed […]
The new mountain bike park in Eden, NSW isn’t quite open to the public yet, but the third event in the Quad Crown MTB series — The Orca — gave riders an exclusive first ride on the trails here. And riders from all over the country flocked to the Sapphire Coast for the mini-stage race. […]
After experiencing what may have been the best weather in Queensland, if not Australia, for The Sunny 80, The Quad Crown now turns its attention to Eden, NSW, for The Orca. Folks who sign up for this race will be some of the first in the country to ride the trails at Gravity Eden because […]
NSW’s South Coast is going to be bonkers, with trail builders cutting kilometre after kilometre of trail at three new trail destinations, all within about 200km of one another. At the southern edge of the region is the aptly named Gravity Eden, where Contour Works has about 300m of elevation to work with, creating 56km […]
Mountain biking around NSW, there is a huge variety of terrain, riding styles and trail networks. Sifting through the pile and figuring out where to go is a tough job, especially when trail gradings aren’t always apples to apples between locations. So we’ve put together a trusty guide on some of the best mountain bike […]
Located about halfway between Sydney and Melbourne, Eden, NSW, is a boom town. Timber and commercial fishing were the foundation on which the small coastal community was built. But when the cannery shut down in 1999 and regional sawmills began to shutter, the local economy transitioned to what Stan Soroka from the Eden Mountain Bike […]
Georgie Staley and her husband Dave were out in the Bodalla State Forest working on the trails near their home in Narooma, and they kept seeing a van parked in odd places out in the bush and a scruffy looking guy with long hair. “I said I just can live with myself if this poor […]
$10 million for the Thredbo Valley Trail Now this is exciting stuff. NSW Deputy Premiere John Barilaro has just announced a whopping $10 millions dollars has been allocated for the completion of the iconic Thredbo Valley Trail. Yeeha! Watch the video here. This funding will see the grand vision of a continuous trail from the […]
We had the right combination of sunshine and time while in Hobart for one more ride. We pulled our muddy rental car off the Tasman Highway to a little carpark just next to the B33 off-ramp. Here we met up with a small part of the Team Hellfire Crew to ride the Clarence and Belbins […]
On a long ride or during the wee small hours out on track at a 24hr race, it’s not unusual to get a song stuck in your head. Traditionally it’s something dire, like Peter Allen’s ‘Rio’. But on board this bike, the groove is strong; feel the soul, channel the year 1972. It’s Superfly. We […]
As I darted out of work one Friday afternoon in a rush to get on the road, I began to mentally check off the things I would needed for my first 100km mountain bike race. Without noticing at the time, my biggest concern was about whether or not to don the typical cross country race […]
Legendary Californian frame manufacturer, Intense, have been busy, with a bunch of new carbon frames popping up lately. Now they are fast making inroads into the world of 650B. This was to be our first full test experience aboard a 650B (27.5”) bike, with real trail time booked in for this glossy red stunner. Our […]