Wildside MTB 2012

Wildside MTB Days

1. 

   Day 1 - Pencil Pine, Cradle, The Vale, Que River, BocoSaturday, January 28 2012

   Distance:

   69 km

   • Report: Paul van der Ploeg opens race with win,
   • Photos
2. 

   Day 2 - Murchison, Sterling Valley, Montezuma FallsSunday, January 29 2012

   Distance:

   57 km

   • Report: Taberlay moves into lead on a hot day 2,
   • Photos
3. 

   Day 3 - Spray Tunnel, Trial Harbour, Granville HarbourMonday, January 30 2012

   Distance:

   48 km

   • Report: Van der Ploeg, Plaxton move up as Taberlay retains overall lead,
   • Photos
4. 

   Day 4 - Hells GatesTuesday, January 31 2012

   Distance:

   36 km

   • Report: Taberlay wins Wildside MTB race by two seconds,
   • Photos

Wildside MTB Photos

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  Grant Brow from Scotland has a close encounter with an ancient Tasmanian stone between Tullah and Rosebery.

• Victorian Paul Van Der Ploeg, left, wins the first stage by a hundredth of a second from NSW veteran Andrew Blair. Sid Taberlay was right on their wheel in third.
• Sid Taberlay gets some Trial Harbour shack time and shelter from the belting rain before riding the Heemskirk stage.
• The contenders hit top sepeed on Ocean Beach yesterday with Canadian champ Max Plaxton (45) leading Paul van der Ploeg and Sid Taberlay.
• Victorian Paul van der Ploeg has Hobart Olympian Sid Taberlay hot on his wheel as he exits the Spray Tunnel on the Zeehan Time Trial stage
• Olympian Sid Taberlay (3), a multiple Wildside winner aims sets himself for the first corner at Cradle Mountain.
• (sequence) Tasmanian Thomas Hansen celebrated a little too hard after four days of toil, coming unstuck at the finish line.
• Any port in a storm. Trial Harbour lunch break.
• With temperatures reaching into the 30s, many Wildside riders took to the Rosebery Memorial Swimming Pool on their day 2 lunch break.
• Sam Chancellor of Victoria flies recklessly into the single track section close to the Que River finish.
• (Sequence) Thomas Hansen (the first in sequence)
• The testing weather did nothing to dampen the spirits of Wildsiders who still enjoyed the remoteness and shack character of Trial Harbour.
• Stephen Scharapow and Ian Donelly (both from Tasmania) navigate at ground and eye-level through Sterling Valley.
• Adrian Jackson took the stage win at Que River.

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