LET ME START THIS TALE BY CONFESSING ONE THING UPFRONT: I HATE CAMPING! IT F*KING SUCKS... ESPECIALLY AFTER 11 HOURS ON THE BIKE. THERE IS ZERO STOKE FOR ME HAVING TO GET INTO A WET TENT ON A DOWNSLOPE WHERE YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING JAMMED IN THE END FEELING AND LOOKING LIKE A USED GEL WRAPPER THAT YOU LEFT IN YOUR RIDING SHORT POCKET AND PUT THROUGH THE WASH. This being the case, what would possess me to indulge in the mission of fl ying from NZ to Europe, with ensuing oversize baggage arguments and jet lag to offer myself as a sacrifice to French switchbacks, abovementioned tent arrangement and hell gnar? Simple – The best week on a bike ever. AKA, the Mavic Trans Provence 6 day Enduro race.
After an unexpected absence in 2018, the Mavic Trans Provence was back for 2019, but with a twist announced from organizer and Blind Racing Czar Ash Smith: This was to be the final TP ever!!! That horror piece of news meant a fl ood of fever from the TP alumni as everyone scrambled to get a golden ticket to the final edition of what is widely considered to be not only the originator of this style of multi day Enduro racing, but also the pinnacle of the genre. While I had done it once before in 2015, there was NO way I was going to miss this Grand Finale of insane riding experiences.
Indeed, when I refl ected back on the 2015 vintage, I don’t recall the actual racing aspect as much as my brain drinks in the overall experience – The Vistas, the camaRADerie, The locations, the French cokes, the amazing trails, the laughs, diving into the Med, the endless supply of fistings (the good variety)… I can’t even tell you which was my best stage result that week, which for a dude that maintains a spreadsheet on that shit says a lot right?
この記事は Revolution MTB の Issue 55 版に掲載されています。
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この記事は Revolution MTB の Issue 55 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、8,500 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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Have you heard the news? Australia’s hottest rising star on the gravity front, Dan Booker, has recently signed a deal to ride for nuke proof bikes’ with global support!
RAISING CHAMPIONS THE A'HERN
LET’S MEET THE A’HERNS; THERE’S MUM AND DAD, OTHERWISE KNOWNS AS JEN AND NICK (A DUAL COMMONWEALTH GAMES GOLD MEDALIST AND TRIPLE OLYMPIAN IN HIS OWN RIGHT!) AND THEN THERE’S THE KIDS, BROTHER KYE (19) WHO’S A JUNIOR WORLD CHAMP AND MULTI-NATIONAL CHAMP, AND THEN OF COURSE THERE’S SISTER SIAN (22) WHO HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNISABLE FACES IN AUSTRALIA WOMAN’S CYCLING, A MULTIPLE-NATIONAL CHAMP AND OCEANIA CHAMP.
PIVOT 2021
WHEN IT COMES TO PICKING YOUR NEXT DREAM BIKE IN A PACKAGE THAT PERFECTLY SUITS THE STYLE OF RIDING THAT YOU LOVE MOST, YOU REALLY ARE GOING TO FIND YOURSELF UTTERLY SPOILT FOR CHOICE WITH PIVOT’S LATEST OFFERINGS.
AUS CYCLING 2021 DH NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
FOLLOWING THE CRAZY YEAR OR CONFUSION AND CANCELATIONS THAT WAS 2020, THE VIBE FOR THIS YEAR’S AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL DOWNHILL MTB CHAMPS WAS ALL ABOUT A ‘NEW YEAR, NEW ME’ ATTITUDE. FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME WE GOT TO SEE THE COUNTRY’S BEST GRAVITY RIDERS BATTLING FOR NATIONAL TITLES AT THE ULTIMATE VENUE FOR SUCH AN EVENT, MAYDENA!
Get Ready To Shredy!
Is it fair to say that being the only high-performance e-mtb trail bike designed specifically for female riders, that then makes the all-new intrigue x e+ pro from liv the best female specific E-MTB? Perhaps so. However, even if this bike wasn’t literally in a league of its own (imagine for a moment that there were some other brands as dedicated to female cycling as liv and as a result there’d be several different bikes competing in this category) we would still be confident that the all-round package and ride performance of the intrigue x e+ would make it hard to beat. Let’s take a closer look at why we think this bike is one of the hottest new e-mtb releases of the current season.
10 Most Asked Q's
Having spent the year listening to questions from e-mtb riders from right across the country there’s a handful of questions that keep popping up time and time again. And so in this article we’ll set out to give the answers to the 10 most commonly asked things about e-bikes in year crazy year that was 2020.
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LIV INTRIGUE Advanced Pro 29
FROM THE BRAND THAT CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY IN WOMEN’S MOUNTAIN BIKING WE WERE EXCITED TO GET OUR HANDS ON THEIR LATEST MODEL FOR AN EXCLUSIVE IN-DEPTH REVIEW AND IT CERTAINLY HASN’T DISAPPOINTED! THE ALL-NEW INTRIGUE ADVANCED PRO 29 HAS BEEN DESIGNED AS A FAST ROLLING TRAIL BIKE WHICH CAN EAT UP LONG CLIMBS AND STILL DOMINATE ROUGH DESCENTS. IT’S A BIKE WHICH DEBUTS SEVERAL NEW TECH FEATURES FOR LIV, SUCH AS ADJUSTABLE FRAME GEOMETRY VIA A FLIP CHIP AND THE BIKE IS GOING TO BE OFFERED IN A SIZE LARGE FRAME OPTION (IN THE PAST LIV’S FRAME SIZING HAS STOPPED AT MEDIUM). THE INTRIGUE ADVANCED PRO 29 ALSO BOASTS A LOVELY FULL CARBON FRAME AND PACKS 140MM OF FRONT TRAVEL WITH 125MM IN THE REAR. HERE IN AUSTRALIA LIV ARE OFFERING THE NEW INTRIGUE ADVANCED PRO 29 IN A CHOICE OF THREE COMPLETE SPEC LEVELS WITH A STARTING PRICE OF $6599. FOR THIS REVIEW LIV WERE KIND ENOUGH TO SEND US OVER THE ULTRA-TOP-SHELF ‘0’ MODEL WHICH COMES WITH FOX ‘LIVE’ SUSPENSION AND A SLIGHTLY EYE WATERING $11499 PRICE TAG.
A Life Rebuilt
Welcome back – so over the last two editions of this fine mag, I have told the story of how buying a mountain bike literally saved my life. Going, in my 20’s from being a mountain bike rider, obsessed with fitness. To a fat, in debt, middle-aged wreck and back. In the last article I was getting after it. Riding every day, I could and about to enter the trans nz enduro race. Until a review of my finances blew that idea away. I was devastated, but. If I was going to rebuild my life. I had to rebuild all of it. Including my financial situation.
Lockdown & Life Lessons
During lockdown the novelty of baking banana bread and sourdough loaves eventually wears off, you can only accept so many bloody push up and Koala bear Instagram challenges that come your way.
