Bikedan in Asia

Guest writer: Ed Cork’s account of Yellow Mountain

Race report- Huangshan Mountain bike festival 80Km race; March 14, 2013. Ed Cork Now in its eighth year, the Huangshan Mountain Bike Festival in Yixian, Anhui continues to grow in popularity. A combination of stunning scenery and a varied and often challenging course ensures that this event attracts China’s top riding talent and makes it [...]

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China: Thousand Island 160km Road Race

Last week the much awaited event of the year in China was staged and for the first time in 2012, the course was raced around the circumference of the Thousand Island Lake (dotted with thousands of small islands!). This made for a much more challenging race, both physical and technical skills. In almost three years [...]

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Inner Mongolia: Genghis Khan 3-day MTB Adventure Stage 3

This was the frantic pace that was set across the glorious grasslands of Inner Mongolia during the final stage of the Genghis Khan MTB adventure race. If you have not yet experienced racing across wide-open lush green grasslands, then you need to add this cool event to your bucket-list of things to do -Genghis Khan [...]

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Inner Mongolia: Genghis Khan 3-day MTB Adventure Stage 2

Day two of the Genghis Khan 3-day MTB Adventure saw a complete turnaround of the weather and the grassland trails were now bone-dry for the most part, allowing for some very fast racing.  As usual, the pace set from the gun was a cracking one and this time it was set by the Mongolians. To [...]

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Inner Mongolia: Genghis Khan Stage One

It was truly a stage of epic proportions as riders were soaked to the bone in the first 30 minutes of the opening 63km stage; it was a real mud-fest for the entire stage, bikes and riders alike were covered with the thick clay like grassland mud that made for a challenging race. Fortunately, the [...]

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Preview: Genghis Khan Inner Mongolia MTB Adventure

Record numbers are here at the Genghis Khan Inner Mongolia MTB Adventure that kicks off today with stage one’s 63kms, with nearly over 175 mountain bike riders taking to the wide open grasslands of Xiwuqi – far north of China, close to the real Mongolia.  Do not mistake this event to be the Mongolia Bike [...]

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Beijing: Shimano Circuit Road Race

  My team flew me back to Beijing to take part in the Shimano organized 55km road race that was held on Saturday.  More than 100 elite riders lined up at the start line on the tight 5.5km course that went around the Olympic Rowing site 10 times. In typical fashion, the Chinese riders sprinted [...]

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Beijing Trek Road Race: First win for 2012

After knocking on the door with a whole string of second places and podium finishes for a long while, I finally won a road race at the Beijing Trek sponsored event in convincing fashion; winning from the bunch kick at the end by several bike lengths. It was quite amazing to pull of a win [...]

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China: Tour of Sailimu Lake Stage Five

The final stage of the Tour of Sailimu Lake was held in the city of Bole in front of what seemed like half the city out in force to support the riders. It was a 6km city circuit with long straightaways. The finishing straight was on a false flat uphill into a block head wind [...]

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China: Tour of Sailimu Lake Stage 4

Today was always going to be a shake up of GC with the long climb up to the scenic Sailimu Lake perched amidst majestic mountains at an elevation of over 2,000metres. The two Feng brothers from the Triace team rode away together early in the climb to go 1-2 in the stage and in the [...]

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