Today, the Snow Bike Festival has announced that it will stay in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad. Switzerland is already one of the leading destinations for mountain biking. With events like the Swiss Epic, Grand Raid, National Park Bike Marathon, the Lenzerheide World Cup, and now the Engadin Bike Giro showcasing the best of […]
Archives for June 2016
The Star of the South in Poland
Poland should be well-known for the raw, technical trails that the forests there offer. European mountain biking often conjures images of big alpine passes, or long gravel roads. Poland has neither. It does have large mountains, heavy forest, tight singletrack, and lots of trails and towns to discover. Cezary Zamana, the winner of Tour of […]
Rocky Mountain release the new Element
Related Event: BC Bike Race
Rocky Mountain Bicycles have released a new Element – their flagship XC full-suspension bike, sporting 120mm front travel and 100mm rear. The new frame design is the result of over two decades experience. The new Element has a more efficient suspension design, refined marathon geometry, Ride-9™ adjustability, and room for two bottles inside the front triangle – which […]
Ferreira and Neff win XCM World Championships
On a gloriously sunny day in the Aveyron, Swiss star Jolanda Neff and Portuguese powerhouse Tiago Ferreira won the 2016 UCI XCM World Championships, raced on a hilly, technical course that started and finished in Laissac, France. The elite women started first as the morning had barely hit 10 degrees. Men would start 25 minutes later. […]
Bike Check: Anna Beck’s Rocky Mountain Element
Anna Beck is a Brisbane based mountain biker who packs a punch. With a full-schedule of life, she still manages to run a women’s MTB Team (Sol Breads-Cyclinic), coach a number of athletes, and race national level XCO and XCM, plus state level road. This year, Beck made it a goal to represent Australia at […]
Marathon World Championships course check
The UCI Cross-Country Marathon (XCM) Mountain Bike World Championships has been stuck into the last weekend of June. This makes planning a little easier from a long way out, but it also makes the race fairly Euro-centric. But the sport is too – so that is ok. A couple of days ago we took a […]
Bike Check: Imogen Smith’s Norco Revolver 29 FS
We have taken a look at Imogen Smith’s team bike in the past, both in 2014 before the Crocodile Trophy, and then almost a year later before the Swiss Epic. While the Bianchi Methanol 29 FS frame and Stan’s NoTubes Valor wheels remained the same those times – in 2016 the whole Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team are […]
Who can win the 2016 XCM World Championships?
Entry lists for the 2016 XCM World Championships have been published, and as the race falls just one week ahead of the XCO World Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic, you might expect the start lists to take a different shape. And in a way, they have. While some XCO racers are steering clear, others […]
Jolanda Neff to race UCI XCM World Championships
With the UCI Cross-Country Marathon (XCM) World Championships falling just one week ahead of the Cross-Country World Championships, you could expect the start lists in the XCM Worlds to be somewhat diminished with the premier cross-country discipline taking place in Nove Mesto in early July. However, not only have Annika Langvad and Jaroslav Kulhavy announced […]
Ariane Kleinhans wins Swiss XCM Championship
Racing for a national title should never be taken for granted, and this past weekend Ariane Kleinhans lined up for the Raid Evolènade in Evolène with the drive and determination to take 1st place. Not 2nd. First. The following insights come from Team Spur manager Nic Lamond. “A rare moment of indecision darted across Ariane Kleinhans’s face […]