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January 21, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Snow Bike Festival and a winter wonderland

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Snow Bike Festival Gstaad MarathonMTB

There are few days where everything that needs to fall into place, falls into place. It can happen on race days, it can happen on social rides, but even with the best preparation it doesn’t always happen. Having the the right mix of motivation, conditions, equipment and experiences does not always happen. I’m lucky that […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: fat bike, gstaad, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, Norco, snow bike, Snow bike festival, Stage Race, Switzerland, UCI

January 20, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Snow Bike Festival – climbing to powder

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Snow Bike Festival Gstaad MarathonMTB

The world of the Snow Bike Festival is really mixed. With about 150 riders from almost 20 different countries, it’s a really diverse mix of people. But you need to consider that there is also a highly diverse mix of ability too. From the UCI elite riders who are here not just for fun, but […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: gstaad, Inlovewithswitzerland, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, snow bike, Snow bike festival, Stage Race, UCI, XCM

January 19, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Snow Bike Festival Prologue – a comedy of errors

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Snow Bike Festival Gstaad MarathonMTB

The Snow Bike Festival is the the first UCI S1 mountain bike stage race of the year, and also the only UCI race that is held on snow (although professional road racers might disagree some years when Paris-Nice gets hit hard by the weather!). With a home in the Swiss resort town of Gstaad, the […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: biking, gstaad, inlo, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Norco, snow bike, Snow bike festival, Switzerland

January 4, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Preparing for the Snow Bike Festival

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Snow BIke Festival Gstaad Switzerland

The Snow Bike Festival has grown since inception a few short years ago, filling a gap in the UCI mountain bike calendar as a UCI S1 stage race, and also catering for the need for many of us to ride our bikes more often, in more places. Mountain bikes are a tool for travel, adventure, […]

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