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August sucks to be a bike rider in Australia unless you live way up north or you’re into those weird indoor things where you ride around going nowhere, through an artificial landscape in a fake hyper-coloured world with lots of numbers and computer-generated people that look like robotic mannequins from Alex The Kid. Everyone is […]
Video 1 featuring pre-race interviews with Sian A’hern, Troy Brosnan, Mick Hannah, Tracey Hannah and more. Race categories include U13, U15, U17 and Masters Men and Women followed by U19 and Elite Women. Video 2 featuring Junior (U19) Men and Elite Men. Troy Brosnan (SA) and Tracey Hannah (QLD) returned to the top of the […]
The new Giant Anthem 29 is finally here; we’ve wanted this bike for a while now, this is the bike we needed from you, Giant. Thanks for listening! Welcome back, Anthem 29! Back before the wheel size thing dominated discussions and confused everyone, Giant Anthems were everywhere at the races; they were light, fast, affordable […]
Around a week ago, a rather innocuous looking email arrived in the Flow inbox, letting us know that Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA), the peak Australian MTB body, had gained official National Sporting Organisation status. “So what?” you might ask. Well, there’s quite back story here! For a long time now, MTBA has operated in the […]
We love stage races; the adventure, the comradeship, the journey of it all – it’s bloody brilliant. Over the past few years we’ve been closely involved with Australia’s two leading multi-day stage races, the Port to Port MTB and Cape to Cape MTB, and so we’re pumped to hear that another event has been added […]
Congratulations to Jake for being named in the Australian Team for the 2017 World Championships. All the best in Cairns! Follow Tim and Jake on Instagram: @timmy_eaton and @_newellydox_ Follow G imagery on Instagram: @g_imagery
Must Watch News of the week? Sam Hill won his first Enduro World Series round, and is now leading the overall with two round to go! You can see all the Aussie’s results here and the full highlights video here. A post shared by Enduro World Series (@world_enduro) on Jul 30, 2017 at 2:06pm PDT Giant […]
A gang of three walk into a bar: one lightning fast kid from Mt Beauty, one ultimate cyclist from Sydney and an iconic veteran from the Gold Coast. They order a steak, ride a bull and swap tales of roosting their photographer in dusty turns, pounding rocks on bikes and what bike races they were […]
We are in Rockhampton for the fourth round of the MTBA Gravity Enduro National Series, a place that none of us had visited prior, we’d heard rumours of an expanding network of trails where the weather is absolutely prime in July and as we’d also find out; it’s the steak capital of Australia. Joining us […]
Cooper, who was defending his jersey from last year, produced one of the rides of the day to fight his way back from a crash, which saw him drop to sixth on lap one to take the title in a time of 1:25:31 ahead of Cameron Ivory (NSW) and Daniel McConnell (ACT). “I just went […]
The story has been told, after narrowly missing out on the gold in Cairns at the World Champs by the narrowest of margins – 0.15 seconds to Nico Vouilloz he got angry and hungry, it was only going to be first place for Palmer. What followed that big event in the Northern QLD were a […]
It’s no secret that Lapierre have been working on a 27.5-wheeled downhill bike for some time now – even last season, Sam Blenkinsop and Loic Bruni were spotted racing on the bigger wheels at the Pietermaritzburg World Cup. So while we have been anticipating the release of a 650B downhill rig, we did not expect it to be […]
24-hour world champion Jason English (NSW) and Irish national champion Jenny Fay claimed the Tablelands Classic, the fourth round of the Real Insurance Cross Country Marathon (XCM) Series, on a wet and muddy day in the forested Atherton Tablelands. English overcame Canadian National Marathon Champion Cory Wallace for the top spot on the elite male podium, […]
The team had two busy days, everyone is relieved actually to be on the road now and today we camp on the shores of Lake Tinaroo. So far our boys are faring well – Peter Selkrig was right in the lead group up towards Copperlode Dam today and finished on top of the M3 podium […]
‘Palm brought the moto pants and jersey style to downhill, and a whole different attitude towards mountain bike racing,’ says napalm’s long-time mechanic, Joe Buckley. ‘It’s funny, Palm never actually won that many races, but he was so over the top with the cars, the partying, the bus, that people paid more attention to that […]
When Jessica Douglas decided to emerge from retirement just 12 weeks out from the WEMBO World 24-Hour Solo Championships in Italy last May, she didn’t leave herself much time to pack her bags, much less start the usual preparations for the physical and mental ordeal of 24hr racing. Nevertheless, Jess felt confident in her decision […]
“Come to Cairns,” they said. “You will never ride anything else as steep,” they said. They were right. Cairns holds a special place in the history of mountain biking, especially within Australia. Lead by a group of hardcore, open-minded and adrenaline-filled individuals, who began taking quantum leaps forward to carve a new path in the […]
[SV_VIMEO id=”50951443″] The trails of Cairns are legendary, steeped in history and a firm part of Australian mountain bike folklore. Some of Australia’s greatest racers and most influential mountain bikers have come out of these steamy trails – think of the likes of Ronning, the Hannahs, Kovarik and luminaries like Glen Jacobs. It’s a special […]