Pirelli have jumped into the mountain bike game - but not without some proper research befitting the high performance brand.
Will your next MTB trip be to Orange? The local club is hoping to cement Orange as Australia’s next MTB destination.
Mothered By Mountains Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, Nepal’s leading female mountain guide, has been on top of the tallest peaks on Earth. When she teams up to make a first ascent with an unlikely partner – local punk-rock icon, Sareena Rai – they both find that the paths to the greatest summits lie within. “So […]
We are proud to have been media partners for the second season of the WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR. The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR was created to help further the mission of She Went Wild to overcome the barriers faced by women who want to spend more time out and about and in Toby’s case, as […]
Andrea was staying at a Thai Buddhist Monastery when she had an incredible idea to cycle from Thailand, through Myanmar and into India, a 5000km+ ride. Ten days later having kitted out her full carbon Mountain Bike with pannier racks and narrow tyres, obtained a Myanmar Visa and a rough plan of where to go, […]
Gentemstick Super Fish snowboards are the stuff of legend. Snow Action’s Snowboard Editor Peter Wunder separates myth from reality with his road test review from 7 years on Super Fish, from insanely steep Alaska to his insanely deep Rusutsu Hokkaido backyard. It was a magic day out, in a secret spot in Hokkaido close to […]
Riding to Rangoon By Andy Benfield “Driving from India to Burma? Sure it can be done!” Finally after weeks of people telling me it was impossible, it seemed that I might have found someone who actually didn’t think I was completely crazy. My British friend and long-time Burma resident looked at me […]
By Kristan Fischer In my travels ,I was once told “Australia is so lucky, you don’t need to travel overseas because you have a little bit of every country in the world inside your borders.” And to a large extent ,I agree with this. We have the harsh and barren deserts of Northern Africa, the […]
In the lead up to my grand Siberian adventure, I found it wasn’t the cold weather training, or the sourcing of supplies whilst living on a tropical Island that was difficult. But rather attempting to explain to people what I was doing without writing myself a ticket to the looney bin. After all, I was […]
If you're fast on two wheels with a motor - chances are you'll be fast on two wheels without.
Crank Brothers new Synthesis take years of engineering and carbon expertise and rolls it into a diverse range of high-performance wheels.
How can one ribbon of dirt in the forest create so much impact, and last so long?
Finding adventure on the Cairns Regional Electricity Board trail.
Celebrating its 27th consecutive year, the RRR (Rural, Rainforest & Reef) is Australia’s oldest point-to-point mountain bike event - and the biggest on the Far North Queensland off-road calendar.
Why do we go on adventures? Why do we travel? Or even better, why don’t we do it? Why do so many people dream of travelling the world? Why do we make plans and then decide we will make them come to life, one day? There are always more excuses not to go. The list […]
E-MTBs are becoming hugely popular. And Merida Australia might be the best place to start looking at one.
Three wise men said it loud and they said it clear: “You’ve got to fight for your right to party.” Substitute ‘party’ for the preferred blow-off activity of all who read this tome and the saying is no less true.
Does Australia have a hub for cycling? With such a density of roads, trails and riders in Victoria, you might think that’s the centre of Australian cycling. Or perhaps right in Sydney, given the population volume it has. But then Canberra and the ACT have many of the nation’s best trails and riders – although that leaves out Tasmania which is becoming a cycling ‘must do’. But if we look north to Queensland, there are lots of riders, bike companies and trail builders who choose to call it home - and we wanted to find out why. Is it the trails, the lifestyle, the climate – or the opportunity?