This year’s UCI MTB World Championships are being held in Australia, which is bloody good news if you enjoy watching MTB riding and can afford to travel to Stromlo in September. It’s also good if you’re into mountain biking, because it’ll probably raise the profile of the sport a bit more in Australia, which might even help legitimise it in the eyes of councils, governments and land managers. That hopefully leads to massive trail networks covering hills all across the country and endless days of joyous flowing singletrack and wide muddy grins and lots of happy people on bikes with knobbly tires.<\/p>\n
The 2009 MTB WC website is live and kicking and will hopefully have a bit more content soon, including the price of tickets. Can someone arrange to get me a photographer’s pass? Cheers.<\/p>\n
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