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The 2025 race season kicked off with a bang racing 21 days between February and March across USA, Colombia, South Africa and Canada. The trip started out visiting Luke Way in Kelowna to dial in the new Kona Ouroboros gravel bike. We tossed in some testing and went over a plan for the coming months. […]

Heading back to Australia to defend my 7 year, 5 title reign at the 24HR World Solo Champs was something I had been focusing on since resigning with The Kona Bike Company back in June. It had been a hectic September cleaning up in Jasper after the savage wildfires, then travelling half way around the

The 220 km Annapurna Circuit in Nepal was at one time one of the legendary hikes in the World. It still can be, but with a motorable road for approximately 90% of the way it’s more of a bikers dream nowadays. For a long time it was one of the most rugged roads I had

Nepal- Canada- USA- Canada- Mexico- Guatemala The 2024 season started off strong with a few weeks of trekking in the high altitudes of the Annapurna Sanctuary of Nepal. Following this was as spectacular bike tour through West Nepal. It was suppose to be a one way, 1000 km journey from Pokhara to the Indian border

The 24HR World Solo Mountain bike championships took place in Armidale Australia this past weekend. Australia has long been the hotbed for 24HR racing and was a country I had yet to win a 24hr race in having gone 0 and 3 in previous attempts. With this years race being in Jason English’s backyard, and

It was great to be back in New Zealand for the first time since racing the Pioneer and 24HR World champs back here in 2016 🌿🇳🇿. This year an invite from the Whaka 100, the Oceanias biggest mountain bike race brought me over to the town of Rotorua on the east side of the North Island. With 24

Coming down to Colorado is always a highlight of the summer race season. In 2021 it was the Leadville-Steamboat Gravel doubleheader, 2022 it was the Leadville-Breck Epic double, and this year it was the Leadville-Breck Epic-Bikepacking triple ! Seeing Steamboat gravel was a couple days after Breck this year, I briefly tried to make it

The 2nd Edition of the Canadian Rockies took place this past weekend under near perfect sunny conditions in Canmore Alberta. Racers competed in both 24 and 4 hour races on a 13.2 km loop at the World class Canmore Nordic Center. This year the course was redesigned to provide a slightly shorter loop on some

Unbound Gravel has grown into one of the biggest one day gravel events in the World. Based out of the city of Emporia in the prairies of Kansas, this place is booming with over 4000 athletes early June each year. Having raced the signature 200 mile event 4 times, with 3 of them ending in

The alarm went off early at 12:45 am on May 20th in Lukla, Nepal, the gateway to Mount Everest (8848 M). After a few weeks training out of the Chiwong Monastery (2950 M) with the Monks in the Solukhumbu district, the mind and body were ready for the challenge on deck, an attempt to set

Brasil Ride Espinhaco is a 5 day UCI stage race down in South America in a beautiful part of Brazil. It was nice to get the first stage under the hat after what was a pretty long 26 hour travel day, door to door, from the Guatemalan highlands to the Brazilian tropics. The travel was