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Category: Feature Articles

Posted on May 18, 2022May 17, 2022

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.…

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Posted on April 8, 2022April 8, 2022

“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…

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Posted on March 15, 2022March 14, 2022

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…

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Posted on March 7, 2022May 1, 2022

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…

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Posted on March 1, 2022March 1, 2022

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.…

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Posted on January 26, 2022January 26, 2022

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…

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Posted on December 20, 2021December 19, 2021

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…

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Posted on December 12, 2021December 11, 2021

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…

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Posted on December 1, 2021December 1, 2021

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…

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Posted on November 23, 2021November 22, 2021

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,…

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Posted on November 19, 2021November 19, 2021

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…

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Posted on November 2, 2021

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…

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Posted on October 29, 2021October 28, 2021

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…

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Posted on October 27, 2021October 26, 2021

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…

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Posted on October 11, 2021October 11, 2021

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…

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Posted on September 21, 2021September 21, 2021

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…

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Posted on August 12, 2021August 12, 2021

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…

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Posted on July 8, 2021July 8, 2021

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…

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Posted on May 17, 2021May 18, 2021

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…

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Posted on May 5, 2021May 18, 2021

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…

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Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

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…

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Posted on March 18, 2021March 24, 2021

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…

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Posted on January 7, 2021February 8, 2021

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…

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Posted on December 9, 2020February 8, 2021

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…

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Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020

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…

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Posted on September 26, 2020September 26, 2020

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…

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Posted on July 20, 2020July 20, 2020

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…

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Posted on July 17, 2020July 16, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 26, 2020May 27, 2020

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…

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Posted on March 23, 2020March 22, 2020

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…

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