That involved riding non stop for 200 miles with over 7500 metres of climbing.  Josh used a few of our lightweight trick bits to help him out including our new (at the time) 5.6g ultralight jockey speed wheels.

He’s still using them, throughout the winter training, and they are still going strong.  Although superlight and thin the metal seems to hold up exceptionally well to the elements.

SDD ride report http://www.joshibbett.com/ : scroll down to Sept 2011.  Video here: http://vimeo.com/29690504

Josh is currently out training in Gran Canaria for the season ahead, first up, the Andalucia Bike race and then his sights are set on the UK 24 hour solo title.  Good luck.

Lots of options to pick from here: http://mtzoom.com/handlebars/ultimate-carbon-flat-bar/

We are also working on extending our riser bar range to 2 variants, around 150g in weight and extra length. Watch this space.

We sell a few ti bolts now.  Nice and light taper headed caliper bolts and seriously hard premium ti rotor bolts: http://mtzoom.com/clamps/premium-ti-rotor-bolts/

Ant White & Mike Blewitt race to 7th pair in the Sudety Challenge along the Polish Czech border.

Race report here: http://www.xcracer.com/viewblogpost.php?blog_id=234

Tough Sudety Terrain:

At the end of  October Ant extended the British summer by flying out to Malaysia to compete in the Mountain Bike Tour of Langkawi. In the tropical heat he came 2nd in the Vets Category behind the seriously rapid pro Italian Marzio Deho.

Race report here: http://www.cannondaleracing.co.uk/news/2011/11/3/langkawi-international-mtb-challenge-2011-stage-race-ant.html

The Crocodile Trophy in Australia is right up there as one of the world’s toughest marathon stage races with over 1000km across 10 stages.  It’s savage in terms of conditions and speed/quailty of field

The 3 members Subaru MarathonMTB team lasted the distance and all performed excellently. ALL finished in the top quarter of the race.

Hard core sadists:

2012 will see more stage racing for sure .  Loads on the agenda including the Andalucia Bike Race and Cape Epic looming large very soon.

All have hard wearing ceramic bearings and a hard alloy body –  ideal for dealing with wet muddy gritty conditions, in the winter or summer.

Blue seems particularly popular, orange is particularly nice.

Andrew Cockburn won Dusk Till Dawn for the second time, enduring a gruelling 12 hour rain & mud fest in the darkness of Thetford forest.

Taking on his third 24 hour race of the year, Jason Miles won the Relentless 24 hour solo race  in Fort William, Scotland.  It rained for 24 hours.  Read  Jason’s report here: http://40psi.wordpress.com/

In form Rich Rothwell won the Veterans Category at the Kielder 100, with Ant White 40 seconds behind in 2nd (they finished 5th & 6th overall). Read Rich’s race report here: http://www.richyroth.com/.

Typically gritty wet cold Scottish conditions tested riders and equipment.  Only a quarter of the starters actually finished, 200 opted not to even start!

2 weeks later Ant won the Veterans category in the Irish Marathon champs, finishing 4th overall.

On the XC side of things Grant Ferguson secured a 4th place in the World Junior Championships in Switzerland.  Billy Whenman and Tom Bell won rounds of the Southern and Midlands XC series.

Ian Leitch took a bit of time off Xterra to come back and defend his Brighton Big Dog 6hr solo title.  Anthony White won the Old Dog Vets title.

We’ve been struggling to keep up with the demand on our ultralight carbon bars.  We just had another batch produced which has plenty of the oversized 31.8mm dia versions which should keep us going for a while.  There are quite alot of options to choose from with weights starting at 85g (for the 25.4mm x 580mm ultralight version).

Anthony White won his 4th Mountain Mayhem 24 hour solo title after a close battle with other MT ZOOM rider Dave Powell.  The 2011 race had the same top three as 2010 with Jason Miles making up the podium.  http://www.xcracer.com/viewblogpost.php?blog_id=199

Dan Treby came 4th overall and was the top singlespeeder.

The weekend of 17th July saw the mountain bike cross country championships across the world.  In Ireland Cait Eliot won the womens senior cross country championship. http://www.caitelliott.co.uk/blog/

In the UK Billy Whenman & Tom Bell had strong results in the fiercely competitive under 23 Elite race. Billy came 2nd and Tom 6th. Both are getting tronger as the season goes on. Billy also won the Southern Elite XC race the week before. http://billywhenmanracing.blogspot.com/

In the world of Mountain Bike Orienteering, Emily Benham won her 8th UK MBO title by winning the long distance championships.

http://www.emilybenham.co.uk/Emily_Benham/Blog/Blog.html

Mid May to mid June has been a hectic time on the race circuit with some impressive performances from MT ZOOM riders using our lightweight components.

Jason Miles & Dave Powell sucessfully defended their pairs title at the Guisburn Dirty Dozen.  Rising at an ungoldly hour they jousted hard and won by 10 minutes over the 12 hours. www.twinklydave.com :

Meanwhile further north Rich Rothwell clearly had gas left in the tank after the UK 24 hour champs by winning the Glentress 7 hour and the the Border Raid. http://www.richyroth.com/ :

Dan Treby smashed it at the Bristol Bikefest,  winning the 12 hour singlespeed category and and finishing 2nd overall!

http://www.dantreby.co.uk/dans-blog.html

Down on the edge of Salibury Plain Ant White won the Erlestoke 12 hour, enjoying the singletrack to win by a lap over 2nd:

In Yorshire, during May, Tom Bell came 2nd in the Elite Northern Cross Country championships at Aske.

On the World Xterra stage, Ian Leitch secured a 7th in the Sardinian round of the World Cup.

Meanwhile at the 3rd round of the British Mountain bike series at a very muddy Wasing Estate…

At the very sharp end of the womens cross country Mel Alexander and Cait Eliot came 4th and 5th in the Elite XC at Wasing Estate: http://www.caitelliott.co.uk/blog/

Grant Ferguson had his 3rd win in the junior category, after an impressive 4th & 6th in recent rounds of the World Cup. Billy Whenman powered home to an excellent 7th in the Elite mens field:

Early May saw a plethora of longer mountain biking events in the UK.

Andrew Cockburn cleaned up at the classic Enduro 6 at Catton Park, winning the Saturday night time trial and Sunday 6 hour marathon.

Andrew Cockburn cleans up at Catton (Wiggle Enduro 6)

Ian Leitch had a strong second in the blue ribbon event at the Gorrick 100, the 7 lapper.

Ian Leitch & his go faster green pants at the Gorrick

Ant White put the MT Zoom kit (incl. some new prototype products) through some savage wet Scottish conditions at the UK/Euro 24 hour champs to come 2nd overall. 

Ant White getting mud & sand blasted at UK 24 hour champs

Rich Rothwell came 2nd in the Vets category.  Dan Treby won the singlespeed 24 hour category, a week after coming 5th at the European single speed XC champs in Belgium.

Dan Treby slides through the mud to singlespeed victory at the UK 24 hour champs.