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Posted on 11 Dec, 2018

Thredbo wraps up record breaking Cannonball Mountain Bike Festival

Australia’s biggest gravity mountain biking event, the Cannonball Mountain Biking Festival, has just wrapped up in Thredbo after five days of intense competition, with over 900 competitors riding it out for a slice of the $100K prize pool across the five signature events.

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Posted on 10 Dec, 2018

Cannonball MTB Festival Day 5 | Downhill D-Day

Eyes were to the sky and devices locked to the radar as pit chatter centred around who put the snowmobile in the Lusty tent and whether the forecast rain would arrive in the morning or as the forecast read – hold out till late afternoon.

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Posted on 9 Dec, 2018

Cannonball MTB Festival 2018 | Day 4…Flow & Whip Wars Got Wild!

The run of sunshine and massive on mountain action continued for day 4 of the Cannonball Festival. Today it was Group A Flow Motion racing and the incredible Whip Wars and it was one big day out.

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Posted on 8 Dec, 2018

Day 3 Cannonball | Great Conditions & Full Throttle Action

The action stepped it up a gear Friday with a feast of festival action on both sides of the mountain. The sun was shining and as the temperatures soared, the track dried fast and the dust whipped up.

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Posted on 6 Dec, 2018

Cannonball MTB Festival Day 2 | Osprey All-Mountain Assault…Banger day!

The field was stacked, the track long and the weather was hot –the first event of the Thredbo Cannonball MTB Festival, the Osprey All Mountain Assault, certainly took it to the riders today.

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Posted on 5 Dec, 2018

Cannonball MTB Festival 2018 | Day 1…Practice Goes Off!

If the “unofficial” practice day is anything to go by the 2018 Cannonball Festival is going to be huge. Early arrivers were fresh and ready to ride, so it didn’t take long before the mountain was buzzing with riders keen to test their skills on the competition tracks.

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Posted on 4 Dec, 2018

Australia’s Largest Gravity Mountain Bike Festival Has Arrived…

The Thredbo Cannonball MTB Festival kicks off Wednesday 5th December and is set to again be Australia’s biggest and richest mountain bike event with close to 900 competitors, the best mountain bike riders from around the world, a massive $100,000 prize purse and sunshine in the forecast for the 5 days of events across multiple mountain biking disciplines.

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Posted on 30 Nov, 2018

Thredbo Alpine Hikes Track Report | 30/11

After last weeks exciting weather it is sure nice to start this weekend with some sunshine. Most of these are now gone….wooo! Leaving a beautifully wet and flowing landscape.

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Posted on 27 Nov, 2018

Thredbo Alpine Hikes Track Report | 23 November

It would seem that winter has made one more good effort this year with over 20cm of new snow falling amongst the ranges and flurries in the village as well. Although it would seem unusual, it is quite common for a spring storm to arise and this one did not disappoint.

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Posted on 22 Nov, 2018

Thredbo Mountain Bike Park Opens With a Bang!

Last weekend, the Thredbo Mountain Bike Park opened it’s gates to hundreds of frothing and hungry bike riders for another massive season of downhill gravity biking plus some of Australia’s biggest and best mountain bike events.

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