Rider Review: Wolf Tooth Mini-Roll Top Bag
The modern mountain biker doesn’t really want to carry too much on his or her body, particularly when it’s hot and sweat is streaming down your back. More and more…
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Key to Progression: Goal Setting
As mountain bikers we are always keen to progress, keen to improve our skill set, challenge ourselves and hit gnarlier trails. How do we keep moving forward and how do…
Rider Review: PNW ‘The Bachelor’ Dropper Post
One of the greatest steps forward in mountain bike technology for the descender is the dropper post. Not only does it allow you to climb in the perfect position, but…
Ride Location: Kooralbyn
Kooralbyn mountain biking trails closed in 2008 when the Ramada Resort closed at the same location. Despite being a fixture in the Queensland mountain biking scene and once a training…
Video of The Week: Mesa
Featuring Tom Van Steenbergen and Ethan Nell this killer edit is a great way to warm up your mind for the weekend shred!
Round 1 Garapine Enduro: Entries Open
Round 1 of the Queensland Enduro Series is being held at Garapine on 28 April and looks set to be a great way to open the season. Entries are now…
Rider Review: Time ATAC MX4 Pedals
Whether you live in a world of flat pedals or buy into the clipless train, a good quality pedal is an absolute must when riding gravity trails. We grabbed a…
A New world: 2019 UCI World Cup Shake Up
The off-season has certainly led to some blockbuster line-up changes with some big team shake ups making 2019 look like a new world in racing. This year will see the…
Queensland State Championships- Garapine 2019
2019 is shaping up to be an epic race year within the Gravity Enduro scene in Queensland. With a State-Wide series, the Scenic rim series, National cup and club events;…
Video of the Week: William Robert Shreddit
This week’s video of the week comes from Commencal rider William Robert, a man that can certainly handle a bike and is making a name for himself as a freerider.…
Queensland’s New Enduro Series: Scenic Rim Enduro
As the season edges closer and the race calendar appears to get fuller, we look to our race schedule and start jotting in the races we are going to blaze…
Video of the Week: Going “All In” featuring Rob Welch
Known for his ability to throw a bike around a skate park and on the street, Rob Welch made the move to the big bike a couple of years ago…
Australia’s New Bike Park: The mystery continues
Australia is set to get an all new destination for all forms of mountain biking a stones throw from Sydney. Touted to have every rider covered from the cross-country bandits…
A Mountain bikers Christmas: Gifts for Every Shredder
As a whole, we as mountain bikers should be pretty easy to buy gifts for Christmas. After all, all you need to do is buy something that is MTB related…
NV Gravity Park – First Look
When it comes to mountain biking, there’s a few integral ingredients required to make an amazing mountain biking destination; gravity, nature and dirt quality. Soon to be open to the…
Queenstown – Where the trail ends
As you fly into Queenstown it becomes abundantly clear how mountainous and beautiful the terrain is, how epic the views are and how picturesque a location it truly is. Mountains…
Changing Standards – Is it what we really need?
Over the last decade we have seen massive changes in mountain bike design and standards, with a huge change in the quality of ride and the ability of our bikes…
Daisy Hill – Flow trails galore
Daisy Hill is not known for its technical trails or challenging terrain, nor is it known for vast elevation and gravity orientated mountain biking; but at its heart it embodies…
Boomerang Farm: Where gravity meets the dirt….
When it comes to gravity mountain biking, Boomerang Farm is amongst the best locations in Australia. Home to Outlook Riders Alliance and boasting homegrown members like Remy Morton, the trails…
To Carbon or not to Carbon, that is the question….
The introduction of carbon in the bicycle industry was a massive leap forward in weight reduction and stiffness of frames and for many it became the only material they would…
Review – 661 Comp Full face
In this review we will take a look at the 661 Comp full face helmet that was put to the test over the 2017 race season in Queensland, Australia. A…
Rider Direct MTB Sales – is this the death of the LBS?
Mountain bike production giant Intense cycles has shaken the industry this week with announcement of a new rider direct sales model and a drop in retail prices of all their…
Chasing the Gnar
As a gravity rider or any mountain bike rider for that matter, progression is the key. We need to keep expanding our comfort zone, pushing ourselves further and enhancing our…
Rubber Side Down
As mountain bikers we pride ourselves on our ability to explore the natural environment whilst chasing that all too familiar rush of adrenaline that accompanies the gravity-fed sport we indulge ourselves in. It is not just enough to head down the trail, but how far can we push the rubber before traction breaks?