about the Mountain Bike insert
I finally got to read it on the plane yesterday.
Nothing too exciting. One interview with Gavin Rossouw, well wrtitten and interesting. Profiles some 4 diferent rides and some equipment reviews.
All of the equipment reviews had international web sites as references and no prices.
I am sure they just want to get their foot in the door now that we have the Mountain Biker in addition to Ride and of course Bicycling themselves.
From what I have seen to date, I am not too excited. Maybe I can get some feedback from the editor to tell us what the “real” plans are for the future.
Did I say ONLY MTB magazine in the last post? Well, now SA has another MTB mag.The Mountain Bike magazine,brought to us by the folks of Bicycling. I bought the Bicycling today and got the free supplement. Once they sell enough advertsising I’m sure it will be a free standing magazine. This from their web site: Mountain BIKE – 40 pages of off-road info free, for now. How good it will be and exactly how much local content it will have, I can’t say. I will read the supplement this week-end and comment once done. You read it yet? Your comments are most welcome.
Great News
Mylene Loumeau, editor of the Mountain Biker magazine has offered MTBblog two 1 year subscriptions to their magazine, the only dedicated MTB magazine in SA.
So, 2 lucky people who submit there 2007 must-do events will stand in line to win these subs.
See Mountain Biker for more on the mag.
THE TOP 10 MTB EVENTS FOR 2007 ?
So, as the year draws to a close I started wondering which rides I’ll be doing next year. The ones I missed this year due to family commitments, bad planning and of course lack of training. What about those in the far reaching corners of the country?
Then I though how great it would be to have a list of TOP 10 must do MTB events for 2007.
Now this is where I need your help!
Please send me your top 1, 2,3…or even 10 events for 2007.
I will then allocate a vote to each and present a democratically selected list of Top 10 events with web addresses and contact details where possible.
Please click on the comment button below or email to: japie@mtbblog.co.za to add your events to the list.
Confessions of a Mountain Biker, Nick de Klerk, who did the 94.7 on Sunday.
94.7 was quite hard this year… Did all the training and then on race day I hit the wall in the first 20k’s. Pace was just too quick in my group and blew out early. Weather was crap too 
But ended up having a nice slowish ride and enjoyed myself, got in just over 4 hours so nowhere near the 3hours 20 mins I planned on doing it in… Better luck next year I guess and that’s also the last time I try to stick with a bunch that are too strong for me too!
There was a large drop out of cyclists this year and quite a number of guys who did not pitch because of the weather, so only 18000 people finished out of almost 28000 entries.
sabie at last….
Yes, next year I will finally take part in the Sabie Subaru Classic MTB event on 24 February 2007. I will attempt the 70km. There will also be a 40km and a 15km,so no excuses not to take the family on a lekker Lowveld excursion!
See Raceday for online entries.
Planning for the Sea Otter?
If so,the 4 day event schedule has just been released.
Click here for the details.
The Freedom Challenge 2007
Entries for this event for 2007 are now open.
They have 3 events in one:
2007 FREEDOM CHALLENGE TRAIL RACE
2007 FREEDOM CHALLENGE EXTREME TRIATHLON RACE
2007 RIDE TO RHODES
Please see the Freedom Challenge web site for more details.
The Sea Otter Classic!
Their web site for the 2007 event is now open. See www.SeaOtterClassic.com
