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Every year I enter the daylight accompaniment to the Solo Nats thinking, “Maybe I’ll race the whole six and six hour, maybe I’ll just race the three plus two and have a great Easter weekend catching up with mates, while watching the solo 24 hour riders shred themselves to pieces.”Continue reading “Solo Nats 6 + 6 hr Race”
After some red wine, good food and a bit of a brainstorm a couple of weeks ago, Kim Stokeld (founder of Australian Mountain Bike Clinics), myself and some of the other AMBC coaches are working on ways to get more ladies involved in MTB.
If you have a chance to complete a five minute survey, we would appreciate hearing your thoughts on what some of the barriers are that prevent more women getting involved, and any ideas you have about how AMBC might be able to help overcome these.
The survey can be found by clicking this link, or copying and pasting the address into your browser: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WD8P6ND One filler-inner-er will win a 3 hour private skills session. Awesome!
For more info on AMBC and clinics happening around Australia in the next few months, check out the AMBC website.
As most bike fans would know by now, the Mont was shortened by an hour this year. Instead of the usual hectic midday start, riders participated in an ‘honour roll’ remembering James Williamson. When the fire road loop came back down the original climb, there was still a huge queue of riders waiting to go up the hill. After a week of reading words about Jimi on different forums and facebook, etc, seeing the amount of people affected at the Mont began to show me the enormity of Jimi’s influence in the mountain bike community. Once the rest of the event got underway I only had to walk about 10 or 20 metres from our team campsite before I bumped into an old friend, or a new one, and was constantly touched at how open people were about how they were coping and how they were helping others cope. By the end of the weekend, sadness was still in the air, but it was great to also share smiles and laughter with everyone after two days of endless singletrack and dust.Continue reading “Mont 23 Hour Race”
With the news of Willo’s, our Editor’s, death also comes the arrival of the latest issue of Enduro. This makes it kind of a strange one to hold and to read. An Ed Note invites us to reflect on the changes to the sport and the publication over the 12 issues he’s been at its head. He was stepping back from the role to concentrate more on racing.Continue reading “Enduro Issue 15”
The mountain biking community lost one of it’s greatest this week. James Williamson, was competing with Shaun Lewis (Lewie) in the South Africa’s ABSA Cape Epic Stage Race when he didn’t wake up on Tuesday morning. The news has rocked those who knew him pretty hard. At 26 years old, fit, healthy, living a dream and as an approachable and genuine role model for riders everywhere, it’s strange to process how things like this happen, and how lucky we are to have the days we have.Continue reading “We’ll miss you, Jimi”
Kath Bicknell