Wide Open have been dropping photos of their latest team rider on Facebook and the Net over the last week and today I received an email announcing that Matt Scoles is back on the Wide Open programme. Here’s the official word: “Wide Open is stoked… More ›
This year at the Wide Open Product Launch we tried to bring back the old Wide Open Dream Track sessions. Hopefully this can grow over the next few years. More ›
The New Zealand Mountain Bike Team completed its competition schedule in Italy today at the final round of the UCI World Cup, in the beautiful northern Italian Val di Sole. Temperatures again rose to 40 degrees plus for the days racing, with competition to match… More ›
Alexandra’s finest mountainbike export, Matt Scoles, won the Abetone round of the Italian Cup on Sunday. The Cingolani-Trek athlete, based in Italy for the second year with his professional team, has been a consistent top 20 competitor at this season’s World Cup events, and demonstrated… More ›
A few things surprised me on this Friday morning: 1) Matt Scoles can use a computer; 2) he managed to set up a blog; and 3) he can write! Scolsey penned (well, typed) an update about his experiences in South Africa at Round 1 of… More ›
New Zealand’s best mountain bike racers dealt with a Napier heatwave and world class fields at the Eskdale Mountainbike Park over the weekend. Both Downhill and Cross-Country races at the second round of the RaboDirect NZ MTB Cup were contested in extreme conditions on World… More ›
The coverage from the Wide Open product launch keeps on flowing, this time with a bit of dirt jumping from Summerhill trails. Brook’s not kidding that weak Mo’ has taken him months to grow! More ›
Day 2.5 and Day 3 of the Wide Open product launch were a little different. The end of day 2 (let’s call it Day 2.5) wrapped up with Wide Open throwing down dinner for their dealers, team and associated hanger-oners (that’s Caleb and me). Abracadabra… More ›
Wow, what a hectic couple of days it’s been! After a midnight lights-out following an hour or so of banter and abuse dished around the Wide Open and Spoke crews, it was a 6:20am blaring alarm that got us dragging our carcasses out of bed… More ›
Caleb I have been chasing the Wide Open team around the Bay of Plenty today. First stop was Wide Open HQ out the back of Rotorua to meet up with the crew, then we shot through to Summer Hill in Tauranga. Here’s a gaggle of… More ›
Definitely my worst ever post title. But it’s the truth. The Kiwis killed it in qualifying today in torrential rain at Champery, showing that our boys can actually ride and handle their bikes. Blenki qualified first which is awesome news but the rest of the… More ›
Just saw this on Wideopen.co.nz. Looks like Scolesy and Wyn (aka The Clone Trooper) are continuing in their domination of the Italy cups taking first and second and some HUGE silverware at round three! Results below. More ›
Via Wide Open.co.nz: After crashing out at the Fort William World Cup a couple of weeks ago I was pretty pissed as I had a not too bad qualifying run,22nd, and I was feeling good on the track, so I was pretty motivated to get… More ›
One minute he’s in the Anthill credits, the next minute starring in Italian porn with mountain bike props… Matt Scoles is a STAR. More ›