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Cycling Tips, with a little help from their friends at Fyxo, recently embarked on a multi-day road and gravel trip exploring Victorian High Country roads less travelled. With the Christmas holidays just around the corner, you’ve got a little spare time on your hands…so grab a coffee (or even better still, a beer) and settle…

Mt Buller are providing you with extra incentive to register for the 7 Peaks and complete the Official Mt Buller 7 Peaks Climb this cycling season. Interested? Read on… Mt Buller is known as one of the most challenging hill climbs around. Climbing it should be reward in itself. But to make it just that…

Keen observers of the Ride High Country Instagram account may have seen that we let the cat out of the bag last week, posting a photo of the new 7 Peaks Champions Jersey. Designed in Australia and made with all Italian fabrics, MAAP have produced a jersey with beauty that matches the views from the…

It’s official, the latest instalment in the Mystic Mountain Bike Park trail network has just landed. Yes, that’s right…Shred Kelly’s Last Stand is now open!!! Built by the fine crew at Trailscapes, this new blue level flow trail (with black options if you want to send it) is a ‘super awesome, bermy, flowy, humpy, jumpy,…

As we write this, more than 3,000 participants have reached the halfway mark on this year’s Great Victorian Bike Ride. Organised by the team at Bicycle Network, cyclists from a range of backgrounds and cycling experiences are riding, eating and camping their way through Victoria’s High Country destinations including Bright, Beechworth, Tallangatta, Rutherglen and Glenrowan…

On the 4th of November, a group of more than 60 High Country road cycling enthusiasts met at the base of Mount Buffalo for the first ever 7 Peaks Hosted Ride, led by the Soup Boys. The group came from far and wide, with varying degrees of mountain climbing experience, enjoying the camaraderie and support…

In addition to the Mountain Bike National Championships which will be held in Bright next April, the High Country will also host the National Cyclo-Cross Championships in 2019. CX riders are no strangers to the Sam Miranda Winery, located in the beautiful King Valley, having raced there in past seasons. They love the creative courses…

Riding on the back of its inaugural sell-out success (April 2018), the High Country Women’s Cycling Festival is returning to the High Country in 2019 (29 -31 March), with an extended program and new purpose through a partnership with Ovarian Cancer Australia. Based in Bright, the festival aims to inspire, encourage and support more women…

Are you ready to feel a bit jealous?!? Over the past couple of months, GT Bikes and Flow Mountain Bike have been running an ‘Ultimate Weekend’ competition where the winner received an all expenses paid trip for two, two new bikes and two days of the best mountain biking in Australia…in Victoria’s High Country of course!…

With the 7 Peaks event window now only days away (that’s right… it all kicks off this Friday 26th of October), now is the time to get your registration in order. We’ve made it easier than ever for you to register, track your accomplishments and of course get those all important passport stamps via the…

Okay…it’s not actually a sneak peak, but we want to let you know we’re now only days away from launching an all new 7 Peaks Champions Jersey!  In fantastic news this years edition will be designed and produced by MAAP, a proudly Victorian company now recognised as producing world leading cycle apparel. Their contemporary design has been…

We’ve just received amazing news from our friends at Mystic MTB Park in Bright about shuttles. Blue Dirt will be at Mystic with shuttles running EVERYDAY from 27 December 2018 – 3 February 2019. Yes, you read that right… EVERY DAY. After those dates, they’ll be running every weekend and with extra services at Easter.…

Say goodbye to any confusion as to where the official 7 Peaks segments start and finish! Keep an eye out for new START/FINISH signs on all the peaks, which will take the guess work out of it for you. And of course, details of each segment are on the 7 Peaks website and 7 Peaks Ride…

We all love cycling in the High Country for different reasons. For some of us it’s tackling the 7 Peaks, for others its all about the MTB Parks, while some prefer the seemingly endless rail trails. But, have you ever thought about setting out on a gravel adventure? During winter this year, on the shortest…

Flow Mountain Bike and GT Bikes, two heavyweights of the Australian MTB scene, recently chose Victoria’s High Country as the location for their ‘Ultimate Weekend’ getaway. That’s right, over the past couple of days you might have seen across social media the flowy goodness of Bright’s Mystic Mountain Bike Park being carved up by a…