Q: What do I need to bring? A: Warm clothing and covered footwear. If you want to wear your own helmet or gloves please bring them. We provide all of the essentials you’ll need to participate in one of our tours, bike, helmet, gloves, water bottle. We also provide some Read more…
Derby versus Maydena? How do you compare these awesome Mountain Biking destinations? Is it George Foremans raw power versus Muhammad Ali’s speed and smarts or is it MacEnroe’s serve volley versus Bjorn Borg’s dogged baseline play or maybe its a theme park holiday versus a week at a shack in Read more…
Despite my invitation to the entire worldwide Mountain Biking community only 8 people turned up for this years ride of The River. Maybe not as many people read my blog as I think, or maybe everybody was just getting ready for Christmas. yeah, that must be it. Our latest Epic Read more…
Ok, as a mountain biker I might have a bit of a problem. I’m don’t think i’m a trail snob. I’m fully ( and sometimes painfully) aware of my short comings as a rider. Technically I’m not great and my fitness is no where near what it once was, but Read more…
If you’re reading this seriously looking for fashion advice for mountain biking please let me know ( ) because that’s really funny. I’m the least fashionable person on the planet. I wear one pair of Blundstone boots (that changes every 5 years), wife beater singlet, Hobart MTB Tours jumper. Read more…
OK lets get any conflict of interest out of the way right now. I live in Hobart and I ride on Cascade land. I try and support them by drinking Cascade beer… Mountain biking seems to get linked to hipsterism and craft beer. Not sure why? Maybe its the deomographic Read more…
Don’t ring me, don’t write a nasty letter, don’t send me a rude email and I don’t want any incendiary text messages cause I know some people are going to get a little excited about this. But I don’t care. This is for those riders who are thinking to themselves Read more…
It had been raining for hours; Knicks were saturated and rubbing painfully, gloves were sodden, my semi rainproof jackets was hanging limply off my body, dripping, dripping and dripping. My eyes were full of mud and had turned into red and brown slits and the bike were making pained groaning Read more…
Do you mountain bike at night? I’m always surprised when I invite someone for a ride in winter and they ask “Will I need lights?”. “Well, its dark so, yeah.” “Oh, I haven’t got lights” I guess, like most people, I have a habit of looking at things through my Read more…
Are you a Luddite or an early adopter? I think this story will tell you where I would have been the night the weavers burnt the mills. I’ve got a new bike. Hip hip hooray right? Nuh! Most new bikes I get I’m forced into. In fact most changes in Read more…