Cooper happy with top-10 finish
Mountain bike star Anton Cooper scored his second straight top-10 finish in round two of the UCI World Cup in the Czech Republic yesterday.
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Cooper sixth on return
Cooper sixth on return
New Zealand cross-country mountain bike champion Anton Cooper made a superb return to UCI World Cup racing with sixth place in the opening round in Germany.
Roulston to contest Motatapu race
Roulston to contest Motatapu race
Olympic cycling medallist Hayden Roulston will line up in the Motatapu mountain bike race early next month.
Nation peaked at just the right time
Nation peaked at just the right time
Christchurch rider Joe Nation could not have been more dominant at the Three Peaks Enduro race over the weekend.
Network of tracks boon for club, city
Network of tracks boon for club, city
Over the past 20 years, Mountain Biking Otago has given the city of Dunedin a present worth more than a million dollars.
New or established, Dunedin tracks make great riding
New or established, Dunedin tracks make great riding
Dunedin is blessed with some excellent mountain bike tracks, built by Mountain Bike Otago. Today, in the final part of a two-part series, John Fridd explores the new Wakari bike park and revisits an old favourite trail at the top of North East Valley.
Thrills, spills in this park
Thrills, spills in this park
Dusting off my knees after my first downhill mountain bike excursion of the new season, I was thankful the trails had left me with all my skin intact and a low bruise count.
Film contest to display lifestyle on bike and off
Film contest to display lifestyle on bike and off
Mountain bikers with a creative bent have been issued with the challenge of peddling their passion through a five- to seven-minute film for the inaugural "Through the Lens" competition .
Mountain bike ride includes best part of Rail Trail
Mountain bike ride includes best part of Rail Trail
The Otago Central Rail Trail is now well known around the world, so I thought I'd better include a ride on the most spectacular part of the trail in this summer's bike rides series.
$20,000 for track
$20,000 for track
Mountain biking enthusiasts will soon have another Wanaka track at their disposal, this time right in the centre of town.
Wanaka well endowed with fantastic cycling tracks
Wanaka well endowed with fantastic cycling tracks
We're back in the Wanaka district for the final of our Summer Times bike rides. This is because Wanaka has so many new tracks I couldn't fit them into one article.
Leisurely Taieri circuit perfect outing for novices
Leisurely Taieri circuit perfect outing for novices
Some mountain bikers don't like scary single tracks and exhausting hill climbs, so I thought I'd throw a cruisy ride into this series.
It's all downhill from here
It's all downhill from here
The best bit about cycling in the hills is not the climb. So Jeff Kavanagh goes biking from the top down.
Old gold-mining sites discovered
Old gold-mining sites discovered
Historic gold-mining sites, unexpectedly discovered while building a mountain bike trail up to Moke Lake, could be opened up, if given Doc approval.
Ben Lomond forest tracks for bikes again
Ben Lomond forest tracks for bikes again
Downhill demons rejoice. The Queenstown Mountain Bike Club is looking to reopen two of the Queenstown Bike Park's technical downhill tracks.
Downhill final round
Downhill final round
The final round of the Southern Series downhill mountain bike event will be held at the Snow Park on the Pisa Range on Saturday.
Bike-in, bike-out lodge
Bike-in, bike-out lodge
Swapping snowy slopes for tracks and trails, Queenstown ski-cross athlete Mitchey Greig is spending this summer turning Pinewood Lodge into specialty mountain biker accommodation.
Buy, Sell and Shred Day goes off well
Buy, Sell and Shred Day goes off well
Yesterday was all about the bikes, with the Queenstown Mountain Bike Club's inaugural Buy, Sell and Shred day drawing aficionados from far and wide.
Mountain-biking package deals look set to take off
Mountain-biking package deals look set to take off
Queenstown has taken another step towards becoming the country's mountain-biking capital by offering bike holiday packages of accommodation, bike hire and track use.
$40,000 'great start' for bike park upkeep
$40,000 'great start' for bike park upkeep
Combined funding of $40,000 has been secured for maintenance of the Queenstown Bike Park during the 2011-12 mountain-biking season, to be pooled into one pot for a collaborative approach.