Bikes

It has been some time since I have written anything about mountain biking. I use to run a blog called Dirtworx. It was all about how the world of mountain biking is changing, what the latest trends, what is the new gear to buy and how the sport has changed.

With the "restart" of the trends, we will look at where is sport heading for the future.

As the year is winding down, and people are getting ready for either a white christmas, or in our case in South Africa, a nice hot summer, and I do mean hot, we can look at the year that has gone by and what has happened in the world of mountain biking and cycling in general. I must admit that I am a little biased towards mountain biking but we all have out favorites.

It has been an exciting year. There was a fantastic finish to the season of the UCI Downhill Championships, which put Luic Bruni, Aaron Gwin and Greg Minnar all with a chance to take the title and it came to the last race, which Aaron Gwin ended up winning and taking the title. We saw Chris Froome take the title for the famous Tour de France, which did not take place without controversy. It was a sad year for the Enduro World Series as Amateur rider Will Olson pasted away after a crash in the 5th round of the series.

There was some very interesting new products which was revealed at EURO Bike 2015. We saw BMC return back to South Africa after a sabbatical for quite some time and showing off some very new and stunning products to hit the market. Some great new events to hit the racing calender and even saw yours truly complete the Transbaviaans 2015 (a 24hr single stage race over a distance of 240km).

As you can see it has been a busy year for the 2 wheeled peddled machine and 2016 looks to be very promising too.

Thanks for reading and comeback soon for more info on biking and everything around it!