This is a stage sprint finish from the Tour de Suisse... from the inside.

Huge amount of yelling, shouting, fending off, overlapping wheels. Amazingly intense. I had no idea.

http://youtu.be/QE97iUvSHk0

A colleague expressed keen interest in tagging along for a mtb ride, and he has some cycling experience but his urban bike is back hone in the US.

I can potentially loan him one of mine, but at 6'6" or 198cm he might be a bit cramped on my Large.

I'm wondering if anyone in northern Sydney has an XL they might be prepared to loan for a Sunday. Wheel size doesn't matter, and while full suspension would be nice a hardtail is perfectly fine. I have flat pedals I can fit.

Hi all,
Sadly to report that 2 bikes has been stolen from a building apartment in Rhodes, they were taken from storage cage in the garage area. One of them was a 2012 Kona Fire Mountain, small frame with a Nukeproof saddle. The other bike was a Fluid Rapid Dually black with Shimano M530 pedals and Bontrager saddle (black/gold). If you see them around please let me know.

There is a new race in South Africa with the highest prize money of any MTB race in the world at a whopping US$ 1,000,000.

The race is 1,000km and there is one stage. Teams of two race "non-stop" for the 1,000km and the first three teams to cross the finish line get $750k, $100k, and $50k, with a further $100k going into a lucky draw for all but the top 3.

Are you tough enough? .....I certainly am not.

www.themunga.com/

Hi guys looking for some info on a ride I intend to do shortly, I'm plan riding Oaks -Ingars - Andos - Oaks.
My questions are the following

I've heard there is a log a few hundred metres up Bedford Creek you can use to cross if the water is up or save getting wet feet ? is this correct ? any idea where the said log is ?

Once over Bedford Creek is the link trail to Ingars obvious ? I cant see it (not showing) on the mapping program I'm using to plot GPX file ?

any tips (water top up / food close by etc) would be welcome

Cheers in advance

Hi All,

How would everyone rate Mt Annan v the Ourimbah track from Rnd 3?

is Mt Annan as technical in terms of climbs and descents?

the profile map shows some large'ish climbs and downs, are they as technical as the Drop Off and that horrible climb up through that dark bit of forest where there were rocks and a log (whihc i said hello to) on teh side.

Jeff

My riding route yesterday took me along a marked shared path (one of the very few that has been built totally separate from the road in my area) which is normally not a problem however yesterday I had a very near miss with a pedestrian.

I'm up in Newcastle soon with an hour or two to kill after after a meeting close to the City.

I was planning on taking the Dually XC but may take the AM bike.

Would you recommend Glenrock or Jesmond/John Hunter?

I am wondering if anyone in the mountains has ridden from the walking track at the end of Linden ridge which according to openbikemap / openstreedmap appears to link into the fire trail that is just before faulko point? I am not talking about the overgrown single track half way along linden ridge but the track off the very end. '

Edited to add a map... I am wondering about the hiking track with the big circle. I dont see any GPS tracks on Openstreetmap etc that show people traversing it. I think i am just going to go an see what i can find..

Does anyone know a place (or even if its possible) where I can have some bottle cage mounts fitted in an existing carbon frame?

http://youtu.be/Wx2e9jSSK6E

Last month marked the second anniversary of my Giant Reign 1, my first serious mountain bike.

365 Days of Reign - The Second Coming is a record of all the MTB trail centres/regions I've ridden in the past 12 months. I went as far north as Daisy Hill in south east Queensland, as far south as the Cascade Hut Trail in the NSW Snowy Mountains, west to Newnes and for the first time I headed overseas to the simply amazing Rotorua Redwoods in New Zealand.