Mission Briefing – The Volcanic Epic

Dirty Lifestyle
Its been a while since I got to type that in the subject line! But here we are, on the cusp of the first multi day Bandito bashing since the undocumented Prospector race around 12 months ago. And funnily enoug...

Pioneer wrap up – Bandito Gear Rant

The Pioneer Race
In wrapping up the Pioneer before a summer of ENDURO kicks back in, let's take a break from talking about our feelings and instead go fully mechanical on it with a Bandito gear geek froth fest the likes never s...

Pioneer Race Report – Part 3

The Pioneer Race
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One of the challenges of writing up a Marathon XC stage race is that it's generally relatively same same. The process each day is pretty much the same, the suffering is the same, me declaring a jihad on the Por...

Pioneer Race Report – Part 2

The Pioneer Race
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When I was penning and editing Part 1 of the mini-series Pioneer drama race report, I felt an odd frustration that it wasn't really encapsulating the severeness of the challenge that was unfolding before our fi...

Pioneer Race Report – Part 1

The Pioneer Race
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Usually when I sit down to pen a race report and organise my thoughts, I'm relying on the memories and moments that have become history to help guide me. However, this time is different, this time I can still v...