After the Swiss Epic finished on the weekend, news came from the world’s most successful cross-country team – the Scott-Odlo team have a new team member. Making a name for yourself as a Swiss mountain bike pro isn’t an easy task. With Nino Schurter leading a super strong nation in the XC discipline, many stay in the […]
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BMC and Stockli Pro teams win the 2016 Swiss Epic
Related Event: Perskindol Swiss Epic
The final stage of the Perskindol Swiss Epic today proved to be another tough race, especially because of the cold and rainy weather. Lukas Flückiger and Reto Indergand of the BMC Mountainbike Racing Team I managed to control the race and secure their overall lead against the eternal second-place team CENTURION VAUDE with Daniel Geismayr and […]
XCM World Champion returns to Brasil Ride
Related Event: Brazil Ride
Reigning champions Hans Becking (NED) and Jiri Novak (CZE) just got the company of XCM World Champion, Portuguese Tiago Ferreira and Belgian Roel Paulissen, who both have won the title of the World Marathon Championship (XCM) in their careers. Ferreira is the current world champion, after winning the title at the end of June in Laissac […]
BMC and Stockli teams extend at Swiss Epic
Related Event: Perskindol Swiss Epic
After one of the most impressive prologues in marathon stage racing, the Perskindol Swiss Epic rolled into stage 1 on 13th September, with riders embarking on a 90km route with 3000m of climbing on their way to Leukerbad. In the men’s category the BMC Mountainbike Racing Team I with Lukas Flückiger and Reto Indergand defended […]
Swiss teams lead the Swiss Epic after Prologue
Related Event: Perskindol Swiss Epic
There are marathon stage races around the world, but the Swiss Epic sits head, shoulders and torso above just about all of them. The combination of racing, trails, event logistics and service aren’t matched at any other race we have visited or competed in. And on Monday 12th September, the third edition of Perskindol Swiss Epic kicked […]
Who can win the Swiss Epic?
Related Event: Perskindol Swiss Epic
The 2016 Swiss Epic is barely one week away, and come 11th September, Zermatt will be flooded by a mix of lycra, whizzing freehubs, bright all-mountain clothes and some highly excitable mountain bikers. The 3rd Perskindol Swiss Epic will begin the very next morning. Based in the Valais, the Swiss Epic is 6 days of […]
Get a taste of the Crocodile Trophy in 2016
Related Event: Crocodile Trophy
The Crocodile Trophy hangs like a myth in the minds of many mountain bikers. The truth is a long way from the fiction, and we have busted some myths about the Crocodile Trophy in the past. There aren’t countless days of corrugated roads. There aren’t really any crocodiles (ok there were freshwater ones where we […]
Ironman buys the Cape Epic
Big news came out overnight, that has little immediate impact on the races we enjoy, but might change the size and scale of events in the future. Ironman announced that they have reached an agreement to acquire the Cape Epic mountain bike race. In addition to operating The Motatapu and The Pioneer multiple stage mountain bike races in […]
Trans Schwarzwald begins
Let the Trans Schwarzwald begin! 3km at 14% with 1km at 18% … And that was the first 3km of Stage 2! That was a hard start, so let’s take a little break … Nope After a small downhill it’s straight into climb number two, another 2.5km at close to 10%! Alright, surely that’s it, […]
Power analysis in marathon racing
For this past weekend, I decided to book in a double header with an XCO race on Saturday and the Saarschleifen Half Marathon on Sunday. The XCO was my main focus but with the Vaude Trans Schwarzwald stage race fast approaching, I wanted to see how my body would react to hard racing days back […]