Anyone who starts cycling enough that they need the ‘special padded pants’, or ‘those funny shoes’, and ‘all that colourful lycra’ will appreciate the need to look after your contact points. We make contact with our bikes using our shoes and pedals, our hands and grips/handlebars, and with our seat and bottom. If you want […]
Chris Sheppard Returns to BC Bike Race, Hunting a ‘Hat Trick’
Vancouver, B.C. – BC Bike Race – The Ultimate Singletrack Experience (BCBR) proudly welcomes back Chris Sheppard riding for Rocky Mountain Bikes – our defending champion and fastest man over seven days! This year Chris, aka ‘Shep,’ is hunting for his third consecutive victory – or as we say in Canada – a hat trick! […]
European XCM Championships: Malevil Cup
The starting lists are filling-up and we can expect a really interesting race at the European XCM Championships this weekend. To this date there are many racers registered from almost 20 countries from all over Europe. Among those you can find Alban LAKATA (AUT) – 2010 World Champion and current leader of UCI ranking, Thomas […]
Jodie Willett: My XCM Champs
This race report has been provided by Jodie Willett, Elite XC and XCM racer. It is an inauspicious start to a race when your crew are cleaning ice off the car windscreen with credit cards. We had been closely monitoring the weather forecast all week and with minus 4 to 14⁰C predicted CORC benevolently delayed […]
Matt Duggan’s blog: I don’t believe it…
I’m not quite sure why but things are rarely straightforward for me. The Bristol Bikefest 2012 was no exception. At first I was riding in a team of 4, entry hadn’t been sorted, so then I wasn’t. After many emails pleading with race organiser I finally had confirmation of my 12 hour Solo Singlespeed entry, […]
Sauser and Landtwing take the overall titles at Trans Germany
The 2012 CRAFT BIKE TRANS GERMANY wrapped up today with a massive final spectacle. Although the old and new Trans Germany title holder Christoph Sauser (SUI) lost some of his advantage on the 78.05 kilometers and 1,731 meters in elevation from Seefeld, Austria, to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, coming in as eleventh ranked rider (2:49.24,8) of a […]
Sauser and Brandau victorious at Trans Germany Stg2
By bringing home his second consecutive stage win at the 2012 CRAFT BIKE TRANS GERMANY Christoph Sauser has impressively underlined his ambitions for the title three-peat. The Swiss pro from Specialized Racing mastered the 78.39 km and 2,295 meters in elevation from Pfronten, Germany, to Lermoos, Austria, in 3:05.39,1 and was thus about one minute […]
Sauser wins Stage 1 of Craft Bike Trans Germany
Reigning Marathon World Champion Christoph Sauser brought the home best possible start for his mission of securing the three-peat. The main aspirant for the title at the 6th CRAFT BIKE TRANS GERMANY mastered the opening and so-called queen’s stage of this years edition from Sonthofen to Pfronten (73.10 km; 2,759 m Asc) in 3:05.47,6 hours […]
Trans Germany 2012 Set to Launch
800 mountain bikers from more than 30 countries will line up at the start line in Sonthofen, Germany, this Wednesday, June 6th and thus underline the importance of the four-day stage race in the mountain bike scene again as well as the race’s international reputation. Almost the half of the participants are not from Germany. […]
Second stage win for Periklis, Hynek wins Alpentour Trophy overall
On the fourth and last stage of the 14th Alpentour Trophy across the Hauser Kaibling mountain just like yesterday, the strong Greek rider Ilias Periklis dominated the field over 56 kilometres and 2000m elevation. On the last descent he even got away from the Czech overall winner, Kristian Hynek. Best Austrian today was again rookie […]