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The World’s premier mountain bike stage race the ABSA Cape Epic today announced the teams that are expected to battle it out for victory when the 2015 race kicks off in Cape Town, South Africa on March 15. As always, the event has drawn the best-of-the-best across mens, womens and masters racing categories. Returning champions […]
After Friday’s gruelling climbs and rapid descents, the riders faced their final challenge, a 300m ascent to Gerschnialp. Spain’s Ibon Zugasti again proved his strength on the climb, as he moved up the rankings and secured the final race victory of the first Snow Epic. Following closely was Switzerland’s Silvio Büsser, who beat Tomi Misser […]
The final day of the Snow Epic! We have some photos first up, results, video and a report to follow.
The inaugural Snow Epic changed tack sharply on its second day on Friday, introducing the more than 120 fat bikers to the steep slopes above Engelberg and testing both their climbing legs and their downhill skills. After Race 1’s cross country-type course with few long climbs, on Friday the riders took on the Brunni making […]
The Snow Epic has already started in Engelberg, Switzerland. And yesterday, we had a small gallery of the racing. Big names from the mountain bike world are racing, including Esther Süss and even Bart Brentjens. Esther Süss from Switzerland, a two time Absa Cape Epic winner, took home first place in the women’s race with a […]
The first fat bike specific stage race, the Snow Epic, has started in Engelberg, Switzlerand, overnight. We will have a report and video up soon, but here are a few photos courteousy of Sportzpics.
Livigno is right up in the north of Italy, butting right up against Switzerland. They share a tunnel connection, a road pass, and at least three singletrack climbs over high passes that I know of. Of course, there are countless connections south into the Alta Valtellina region as well. For a number of years, I visited […]
One of the most fun events on the calendar for south-eastern Australia is coming up at the end of this month. The Beyond Bank Duo Classic takes the pairs system of many marathon stage races, adds a lap based format that Australians love, and keeps the distance manageable to make sure smiles aren’t grimaces. Now […]
Cyclocross racing isn’t the only winter bike racing option in Europe – many in the ‘lowlands’ of the Netherlands and Belgium turn to beach racing. This past weekend, the Dutch Nath National Championships Beachracing was held in Egmond. With a strong headwind Ike Groen and Stefan Vreugdenhil attacked from the start. They cooperated very well together and […]
The ABSA Cape Epic is arguably the most important race for cross-country and marathon focused mountain bikers, behind the Olympics and World Championships respectively. One of the challenges for many elite women is finding a team mate to race with. Often, a trade team will have just one elite woman on their team, and sponsorship […]
