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It began with a ten hour bus ride. It was long, winding and cold. Good thing the rest of the day was a fast and busy blur that rendered me knocked out for most of the trip. We weren’t even out of Makati City when I dozed off. Little did I know that I was about to wake up to a great weekend of adventure and racing.

After the massive success of the 2014 season, Steve Parr (director of UKGE) has just announced the dates for the 2015 race schedule. The exciting news is that there will be a National Champs one-off date, so racers can now fight it out to become National Champion. As before there are 5 rounds that will all count towards the overall points series, plus the National Championship race.

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It’s one of the most challenging and demanding races on the mountain bike calendar. This Saturday’s Nzo Whaka 100 is an epic, 100 kilometre, endurance race on the world-class mountain bike trail network in the Whakarewarewa Forest, south of Rotorua.

The Hamburg-based company Bergamont has revised its lineup of full suspension bikes for the upcoming season and replaced its well-known model Threesome with the newly developed Trailster. The 150 / 140 mm bike is available in four equipment variants, two models focus more on long tour oriented riders, while the other two are more made for trail riders who are focused on the downhills. We have checked out the top model – the Bergamot Trailster EX 9.0.