that’s the enduro spirit. plus of course the idea that the trails should be fun, challenging but also require a certain level of fitness and the willingness to dig deep to be fast. for the last gravity enduro (ge) of the season the club in ourimbah really went all out. stage 1 was the downhill,…
if you think derby is a bit out of the way wait until you are trying to get to maydena. once you leave hobart you don’t actually have to drive very far before the landscape looks more and more sparsely populated; that’s how you know you are going the right way. when you start wondering…
as legendary as the tassie mountain biking is, we also wanted to see what tje north east of tasmania is like. kris & nat had travelled through there earlier, but i had only ever been to the south, around hobart. rather unromantically perhaps, i had always thought of tasmania a cold & wet. it is…
not long ago derby was almost dead, at least as dead as a town can be. in 1874 tin was discovered in the hills around town and consequently mined until 1929, when after strong rainfalls a dam burst and flooded the mine. 14 people died and the mine never reopened. before the accident 3000 people…
there are so many things to like about mountain biking. to begin with it’s an outdoor sport, which is great if you, like us, live in a part of world that generally has pleasant weather and trails set in an unspoilt natural environment. it’s also nice to work those lungs and muscles and why would…