Red Bull Formation 2022 | Big Hits & Huge Sends
The biggest Women’s freeride event in the World has taken place in Virgin, Utah the home of the illustrious Red Bull Rampage and now the home of Red Bull Formation.…
Category: Feature Articles
“ZAZ” | Fletcher Media presents Zarah Mitchell
She’s an inspiration to a new generation of mountain biking women across the nation and a young lady that knows how to shred. Hailing from the Adelaide hills in South…
How to Race Your First Enduro | Rider Series
Racing bikes can be a daunting task when you first look at strapping on a race plate. Whilst racing enduro can be a little less technical than downhill, it still…
2022 Alpenflow Epic | Mt Buller, VIC
The team at Rocky Trail Entertainment are bringing us another epic event for 2022 and a great reason to head to the high country in Victoria. It’s a mountain biking…
In Focus | Collab Racing Australia
Australia is a Nation that’s brewing some of the greatest mountain biking talent in the World with some of the fastest up and coming riders the nation has ever seen.…
How to Stay Hydrated Whilst Mountain Biking
With summer in full swing in the Southern Hemisphere it’s never been more important to be prepared for the hot weather and stay hydrated on your mountain bike. The last…
Boomerang Farm Xmas Jam 2021 | SAM X HERBERT Photo Epic
The Boomerang Farm Xmas Jam is an event that occurs every year, this year it was a little different to normal with a focus on the dirt jump area. The…
Long Live Chainsaw | The Life and Legacy of Stevie Smith
Long Live Chainsaw reveals the untold, true story of the meteoric rise, untimely death and long-lasting legacy of Canadian downhill mountain bike legend, Stevie Smith. From humble beginnings being raised…
Queenstown, Tasmania | More Magical Mountain Biking
Pre-pandemic, were you sick of having to spend a day traveling overseas to get your big mountain descent fix? Well, if you haven’t heard, Queenstown on the West Coast of…
Red Bull Criss Cross 2021 | The Gravity and Freeride Festival
Red Bull Criss Cross is set to kick off in style at Green Valleys MTB Park, NSW this December and it’s set to be a blockbuster event. Designed by riders,…
Creator Series: Sam X Herbert
There’s many ways to get stoked on mountain biking and many ways to fulfill our need for quality content. When it comes to building stoke and keeping us hyped on…
Cannonball MTB Festival 2022 | Thredbo
It’s been a hot minute since we have seen a national level event take place in Australia and with the borders all set to reopen by the start of next…
Red Bull Formation Documentary: Pushing the limits of Women’s Freeride MTB
The roots of Red Bull Formation go back to 2017 when Rebecca Rusch saw a void in freeride mountain biking, a void that needed to be filled by Women… and…
The Creator Series: Jesse Chirizzi
It’s the men and women behind the lens’, those camera-wielding magicians that capture the moments on and off the bike at all of the major events, local races or on…
Redbull Rampage 2021 Live Broadcast Times
After a ciesta in 2020 due to COVID-19, the best and gnarliest free ride mountain biking competition is back, Red Bull Rampage 2021. Rampage again heads to Virgin, Utah for…
Crankworx B.C Live Broadcast Times
It’s time again for the world to get ready to experience everything that is Crankworx, this time in a revised format in British Columbia. Made for TV and made to…
State of Play: Queensland Racing Calendar
Our friend COVID-19 has visited again and it has thrown a spanner in the works of the race calendar. The reality of living in the world we live in is…
Sea Otter Australia: Canberra 2021
In 1991 the first Sea Otter Classic was held in North America and it fast became one of the biggest cycling festivals in the world. A place where amateurs and…
Kooralbyn Mountain Bike Festival 2021
The first Kooralbyn Mountain Bike Festival is set to go ahead this year after having to postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions last year. It is set to be a stellar…
Global Mountain Bike Boom: The cost of Popularity
It’s pretty clear to all of us that we had no idea that a pandemic would change the world as it has and no idea exactly what the future may…
The Mullet Project: 297 or what?
The days of one wheel size fits all and one size to conquer all terrain are gone. No longer do we have brands touting that 27.5 is the wheel size…
2021 DH & XCO National Championships
The 2021 Cross Country and Downhill Mountain biking National Championships headed to Maydena Bike Park in Tasmania on the weekend just gone and what an event it was. For the…
2020: The Year in Review – Brakes Wide Open
2020 was an odd year for everyone and for us at Brakes Wide Open it was as well, restrictions meant limited racing at the start of the year and some…
Boomerang Farm Xmas Jam: Photo Epic
Boomerang Farm Bike Park is well known in Queensland as one of the premier locations for gravity riding and arguably the home of Free ride mountain biking in Queensland. One…
Downhill World Championships 2020
2020 has been a year of disappointment in many aspects of life and not withstanding that is the lack of World Cup Downhill racing that has taken place. Unfortunately the…
The Key to Progression: Tackling bigger features
Mountain biking is a sport that can be as gnarly as you want or as mellow as you want; we all have different limits, different goals and different things we…
Shane Finnerty: Everesting on an Enduro Bike
Many of us ride an enduro bike or long travel trail bike and consider a ride over 30k with 1000m of elevation a big day on the bike, but for…
In Focus : Zwift Indoor Training
Zwift is certainly not a replacement for riding your mountain bike outside and by no means is it anywhere near as much fun. In a time when many of us…
Revised 2020 QLD Enduro Series Dates – COVID Dependent
Just when you thought the year was a write-off for racing bikes and catching up with mates between the tape, the team at White Lightning Events manage to bring us…
Mountain Biking in the Apocalypse – COVID 19
If you believe what you see on the TV and social media then you could be forgiven in thinking that it is the end of the world and the apocalyse…