MuleBar

Its Sunday, its the woods...

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Core bike 2012

2012-01-29T09:46:00.000Z

Now open for business in the Monaco suite, Whittlebury Hall

Bring on 2012

2012-01-27T14:00:00.001Z

New sponsorship for 2012 with the 2011 Triathlon coach of the Year!

New Cafe Cortado T' - its a Kicks gel...

2012-01-27T10:07:00.002Z

As modeled by the best body of '95 Westwood St Thomas.... Biffa

Sundays Tavi Woods race course...

2012-01-22T18:45:00.000Z

Tavi woodlands - 1st Race

No 1 Mule!

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Going large in Tavi Woods

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Crasher John's back - No 1 Vet'(he stayed on)

2012-01-22T14:45:00.000Z

No 1 at Tavi Woods DH

2012-01-22T14:24:00.000Z

S.R.A.M boys building up for 4 hours

2012-01-22T10:36:00.000Z

Mule Mike about to start

2012-01-22T10:35:00.000Z

Who needs a bacon sarnie?

2012-01-22T09:47:00.000Z

Brass Monkeys rd 3..

2012-01-22T09:34:00.000Z

The ubiquitous Javi prepped for the 4 hour race

More MBGs - into thin air...

2012-01-21T21:25:00.001Z

For tired bikers?

2012-01-20T12:37:00.000Z

Diablerets 3D - Ski Alpinism extreme

2012-01-20T10:59:00.003Z

Bonne Chance to Roger and Damien as MuleBar Switzerland sponsor the Diablerets 3D ski alpinism festival in the last weekend in January.

MuleBar Girls epiphany in Tenerife

2012-01-20T07:28:00.002Z

"Something happened today, you might call it an epiphany, a zen moment, finding peace with mind-body-soul. Its a new religion. I have never ridden down a road down a mountain. Half an hour, over taking cars, sweetly, calmly and smoothly hitting hairpin after hairpin until I no longer knew anything apart from perfect happiness. Whatever life throws at me now, I'm ready, I can face it head on, because somewhere down a mountain in Tenerife with a bike, heaven exists. I'm not even exaggerating!!!"

Prototyping flavours.. ..with big thanks to Mrs Storey

2012-01-19T10:16:00.001Z

Booicore's first outing!

2012-01-17T09:26:00.001Z

www.booicore.com is where you can find out about these excellent dignity-savers and http://www.cyclestore.co.uk/ is where you can buy them!

Cheers Julian, great idea.

OMG!

2012-01-16T16:07:00.003Z

I'm sure I held my breath for the majority of this video..... Awesome

MaxxD night...

2012-01-14T19:33:00.001Z

Green Oil Simon...

2012-01-13T16:59:00.000Z

Genius idea of recycled bottle tops for the tops of his Green Clean cleaner

Even wolves need to work out

2012-01-13T16:07:00.000Z

Slack lining c/o Maverick

2012-01-13T15:47:00.000Z

Bike polo..looks vicious!

2012-01-13T15:16:00.001Z

Is that Shaggy?

2012-01-13T15:08:00.000Z

Choose your colour, from Trek

2012-01-13T14:42:00.001Z

Welcome the Bike/Outdoor show

2012-01-13T14:41:00.001Z

Martyn Ashton doing what he does best...

Sunset over HQ...

2012-01-12T16:50:00.001Z

January?

2012-01-11T15:06:00.000Z

Swiss Wheels

2012-01-10T16:41:00.001Z

Charity ride for Pilgrim Bandits

2012-01-10T09:30:00.000Z

Jon, Marc and Garrick from S.R.A.M do a 100 mile charity ride in the New Forest for the worth charity, Pilgrim Bandits. Good job boys.

Local chameleon couldnt cope with MuleBar red...

2012-01-08T15:52:00.003Z

Tasty Strudel on the fingers

Ngomakuraira rocks with locals Lee, Graham and Marco...

2012-01-08T15:35:00.007Z

Killer playground and these guys have got the bikes too....

Bush running...

2012-01-07T10:45:00.002Z

With a chameleon on route...

Bush riding...

2012-01-07T04:56:00.005Z

Mule girl Lucina - Womens Elite XC UCI ranking 184'th and Zimbabwe's 2011 XC Champ' !

Reunited with my first full susser

2012-01-07T04:49:00.003Z

First person to guess the year I originally bought it and model gets a free energy 10 pack...

The Drover's Revenge

2012-01-06T10:55:00.002Z

A new Trail Running event will be starting in February of this year in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Have a look at The Drover's Revenge

Mulebar downtown Harare.... Lucina's Gym Cafe

2012-01-06T07:44:00.002Z

Magnificent Baobab trees - watch this space...

2012-01-06T07:30:00.003Z

One Day Ahead

2012-01-03T08:18:00.003Z

Good luck on the winter training to all of our friends at One Day Ahead - a team of mad people aiming to complete every stage of the Tour de France this year one day ahead of the Peleton - get it? Do you see what they have done there?
Good luck in getting those miles in!

The 50 Best fitness essentials - Independent

2012-01-02T21:49:00.000Z

Spotted in Zim'

2011-12-30T04:23:00.001Z

Secret Dartmoor swimming hole, 3 degrees!

2011-12-28T14:29:00.000Z

Dartmoor, actually not raining

2011-12-28T11:32:00.000Z

Cyclopedia app for iPad

2011-12-28T11:09:00.001Z

Check this out.
Stunning history of the bicycle

Message on the hoof

29 ride Cannock Chase

2011-12-28T09:20:00.001Z

...including Mule Steve (bottom right)

Home cooks...

2011-12-27T18:42:00.001Z

Home cooking..

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Merry Christmas..

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Happy Christmas!

2011-12-23T13:48:00.001Z

Palamos Christmas Race.... Mules Team Burnet Stewart

2011-12-23T13:28:00.004Z

"Not a great ending to the competition in Palamos...we went into the medal race lying 3rd but made a mess of the race and finished 9th which dropped us to 6th overall. Very annoying but we've definitely learnt a lot and the experience of messing up a medal race will hopefully mean that next time we're in that situation we'll finish with a positive outcome! A short break now and then we'll be back in Weymouth on the 2nd Jan, ready to burn off the mince pies at a (very cold squad camp. Onwards and upwards. Merry Christmas everyone!"

I Believe I can Fly

2011-12-23T10:46:00.001Z

Zimbabwe here we come....

2011-12-22T14:15:00.000Z

PATRICK BAUER...MARATON DES SABLES

2011-12-22T10:39:00.003Z

The Marathon des Sables (MdS, Marathon of the Sands, or Sahara Marathon) is a six-day, 251 km (156 mi) ultramarathon, which is the equivalent of six regular marathons. The longest single stage (2009) is 91 km (57 mi) long.This multiday race is held every year in southern Morocco, in the Sahara desert. It is considered the toughest foot race on Earth. The first event of the Marathon started in 1986.

Ok, so tell us something we didn't already know - Alex met Patrick Bauer last night - an inspiration of a man, incredible and a man who shares all the dreams and passion of MuleBar and who loves our energy.

BRING ON THE DESERT!

Slovenian Mules, Tadej, takes a big drop...

2011-12-21T13:15:00.002Z

Rockin and kicking at Mule Anna Nichoola's film launch

2011-12-20T23:25:00.006Z

Anna and the dancing gals

Crux Move MuleBar vid

2011-12-20T14:33:00.002Z

Javi clutching his stocking at the Brass Monkeys

2011-12-20T10:26:00.001Z

34th Javi, well done!

End of the day, time to change me stockings..

2011-12-18T15:12:00.000Z

Jules and Nige pop by

2011-12-18T10:23:00.000Z

Git on down to a chilly Brass Monkeys

2011-12-18T09:33:00.000Z

ViCiOUS CX

2011-12-13T14:34:00.002Z

Get along to Herne Hill this coming Sunday for the ViCiOUS cyclo cross race...

Read all about it - Cycling Weekly

2011-12-10T13:57:00.001Z

Train spotting

2011-12-10T12:20:00.001Z

Five to win....

2011-12-09T15:58:00.002Z

2011 50 mile Champion - Awesome Mule Frosty wins again...

2011-12-05T21:37:00.001Z

Geneva Marathon

2011-12-05T09:31:00.006Z

Our Swiss team handing out balloon mules yesterday at the Geneva marathon!

Our trophy boy..

2011-12-04T18:37:00.001Z

Jimmy attacks on the last berm...gogogo

2011-12-04T16:38:00.000Z

The big 1st for big G!

2011-12-04T16:33:00.000Z

Jimmy comes in 5th, G currently 3rd!

2011-12-04T12:47:00.001Z

Warm or what for December.

This beats XC...

The three Mule DH's - double no's

2011-12-04T11:41:00.000Z

Forest of Dean mags

2011-12-04T11:05:00.000Z

2009

Practice run in the Forest of Dean

2011-12-04T10:54:00.000Z

Essential wallet ingredients

2011-12-02T22:54:00.000Z

Wintery Wiltshire

2011-12-02T09:33:00.001Z

Mule Frosty gets ready for the weekend....

2011-11-30T13:54:00.003Z

Crossing the finish VICTORIOUS 2010 after 50 miles!
Frosty on the podium 2010

Frosty's in San Francisco to defend her 2010 title at the TNF 50miler

"It’s always exciting to see the previous year’s champ return to defend her title and it’s no different with Anna Frost. Frost has long been a terribly strong mountain runner before making her ultra debut in winning last year’s race. This year, she’s battled a bunch of injuries and wasn’t as regular a participant on the mountain racing scene as in 2010. However, she did take quite well to stage racing. In July, Frost won the inaugural Salomon 4 Trails stage race in Switzerland that covered 100 miles and 30,000′+ of climbing in four stages. In late August, she and Salomon-teammate Rickey Gates won the open-mixed category at the GORE-TEX TransRockies Run with only three open-men’s teams ahead of them. After last year’s TNF 50, Frost said “I don’t have any 50 milers planned for next year.” Well, we’re glad this one found its way onto her calendar. (Here’s how it did.)"

GearWeAre.com - Like a donkeypunch to hunger...

2011-11-28T12:16:00.002Z

Image courtesy of The Active Photographer

I’ll be honest – my first contact with MuleBar products was via the free sample dish at an outdoors show. In my defense, it wasn’t my fault; I like food and the packaging was just too shiny to miss. Of course I felt obliged to take a taste… which in turn led me to walk away from the stand with a box of products under my arm (for scientific testing purposes, you understand).

The idea behind MuleBar energy bars was founded in a snow hole at around 6200m up Cerro Aconcagua in the Andes in 2002. Upon their return to the New Forest on the Hampshire/Wiltshire boarder, the chaps concerned vowed to produce a range of 100% natural products that you can actually eat and comfortably digest whilst out on your adventure.

With a premise that ‘what is natural is good’, MuleBar use locally-sourced, organic and Fairtrade products where possible (even their non-organic goodies are 90%). They also use the services of Matt Lovell, England RFU nutritional advisor, so you can see they’re determined to give you the good stuff.

But what are the bars actually like? Well, I’ve been (not-so-scientifically) testing the 65g offerings throughout the year, mostly whilst out walking and on photo shoots – and I have to say, they are delicious. They look like very shiny flapjacks, but are not sticky to the touch; in taste tests, my good lady and I agreed that ‘chewy gooey’ is actually a pretty spot-on description.

You might think that such a modest serving would have no real effect, but these bars are surprisingly filling; just the job when you need that little ‘something’ to keep you going. My argument has always been that I’d rather have a nutritious snack on hand rather than the typical fayre available at the nearest petrol station.

My personal favourite is the Apple, Cinnamon & Raisin flavour; the apple is quite subtle and, oddly enough, there is a slight hint of filo pastry about it. Also, the intriguingly-named Hunza Nut (which smells of golden syrup) is worth a look; it gives you a satisfying apple/date taste. The Mango Tango is really cheek-smackingly zingy and as much as I hate to admit it, the Liquorice Allsports is actually quite nice, too. I’m not usually a fan of liquorice, you see.

Summary: When your belly needs feeding whilst on the go, it makes sense to feed it good, clean food. Seriously, give these a go. MuleBar have done a great job in balancing great-tasting products with the ethics to support their core beliefs.

Mulebar in Franfurt...

2011-11-28T10:18:00.000Z

Old vid but... wow

2011-11-27T21:17:00.001Z

Best goodie in the goodie bag!

2011-11-27T12:33:00.001Z

PBs smashed...booming Boscombe 10k

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Claud the Butler - top coffee..

2011-11-26T13:19:00.000Z

"Apple strudel and Mango Tango makes me crave for a snack"

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"MuleBar is the name of a bunch of energy bars which are produced by a simple principle - the less processed food you eat the better it is for your body. The bars provides plenty of energy and they are loved by triathlon champions and cyclists in the Tour de France. Only the names Liquorice Allsports, Apple strudel and Mango Tango makes me crave for a snack."

Jon's new fancy 29er

2011-11-24T09:59:00.001Z

More from the Saxon CX...

2011-11-23T13:37:00.001Z

Salisbury Saxon CX

2011-11-23T08:44:00.001Z

Jon Fearne and members of the Sramcc doing the muddy and fast 80 km Saxon CX last weekend

"Check out these bad boys..."

2011-11-21T11:16:00.003Z

The locals are friendly round here

2011-11-19T10:37:00.001Z

New pussy drink. Natural energy drink!

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Dakar hits the city

2011-11-18T16:28:00.000Z

Christmas has arrived at Evans cycles

2011-11-18T09:19:00.001Z

Tony Streather OBE survivor of a 5 man fall and miraculous arrest on the 1953 K2 American expedition

2011-11-16T20:36:00.001Z