Mountain Biking in West Sussex – Powered by Quest Adventure
For those of you that don’t know, this is an MTB event held in both France & Switzerland in the Portes du Soleil region of the French Alps (one of the largest skiing areas in the world) and in the summer it becomes a trail centre of giant proportions! It is not a race and [...]
After what seemed like an eternal wait (it wasn’t actually that long, I’m just rubbish at waiting), I had in my possession a brand new Ellsworth Truth Mk 6 frame, in gorgeous green and complete with a ‘save the rainforest’ tree frog (Do I now count as tree hugger?). I’ve had a good few weeks [...]
I’ve long been a fan of the more ‘traditional’ XC race format, but as I’d done it for many years non stop I kind of got burnt out with the whole race scene and I’d taken a few years off to just enjoy my riding. The last few years my emphasis has been on endurance [...]
It was billed as a post Christmas Indulgence tonic, and was just what I needed after a few too many calories and just a splash or two of fine wine. I only decided to enter a few days before, so there was very little time for preparation, just a run on the Saturday and a [...]
All last week I’d been thinking about what to do Sunday, I had a ‘day pass’ and originally I was going to ride with Deadly and the Brighton MTB crew as well. I noticed that round one of the “Merida Brass Monkeys Enduro” was on and was pondering entering, but when I went and looked [...]
Gorrick Autumn Series rd 2 – 8th Nov 2009 After missing out on round 1 at the last minute, I was keen to get back to Gorrick racing, having not done a pure mtb race for a good few months whilst dabbling in offroad tri’s. The weather had been pretty lousy and Saturday night had [...]
After a pretty successful first Trail X event (despite the disqualification…) I was very keen to give it another go, and signed up for the next race, taking place in and around Poole harbour. My preparation had been going pretty well – coming off the back of a good summer running and riding loads and [...]
Well I was going to write a bit of a report about the Brighton Big Dog, but fortunately for me someone has done a nice little video (I think it was http://twitter.com/markbrown25 as he was loitering with a video camera!!). So here’s an aerial view of the course: And this is what it felt like!! [...]
I entered this event in the back end of 2008 and I was looking forward to this as I missed last years as I was not fit enough to compete due to my recovery from my broken shoulder so I was determined to make amends. In the 4 months build up I was averaging less [...]
Having spent many years racing mountain bikes, first xc, then downhill, then back to xc, I’ve found myself branching out and trying some different forms of racing over the last year including the Rat Race, and a couple of duathlons. I’ve been interested in doing a triathlon for a while, but my swimming is not [...]
