In 2023, the OG of mountain bike stage races, Transalp, turns 25. To celebrate this milestone the race from 9-15 July will be listed as a UCI S1 event. This means riders who take part in the men’s and women’s categories can achieve ranking points. Race director Marc Schneider considers the step to list the […]
Transalp 2019 route is revealed
The 2019 version of Bike Transalp has had the course revealed. Organisers say it will let you discover entirely new stage towns and completely new trails. And with a new start town in Tux, they might be right. From day one you shoot along the recently finished and never before ridden bike trail from Tuxerjoch […]
Relive the highlights of the 2018 BIKE Transalp
The BIKE Transalp is a stage race like no other. With 7 days of riding point to point across the Alps. The sense of a journey can be missing from modern stage races, where riders are settled into cost-effective towns for more than a night, and toured through manicured bike parks. But Transalp is one […]
Tight finish on Stage 5 of the 2017 Transalp
Daniel Geismayr and Hermann Pernsteiner have come out victorious of the fifth stage of the 20th BIKE Transalp powered by Sigma. The defending champions from Austria racing for Centurion Vaude 1 mastered the 84.73 km long leg from Kaltern to Trento (2,619 m) in the time of 3:31.31,3 edging off Jeremiah Bishop (USA) and Kristian […]
Bike Check: Chris Pedder’s Open 1.1
Chris Pedder is a Brit (for the time being) mountain biker currently living in Luxembourg. When not investigating very small, very cold things in his day job as a theoretical physics researcher, he likes to daydream about mountain bike rides in proper mountains. Whilst Luxembourg doesn’t have many of those, it’s a lot closer to […]
Transalp – the journey across the Alps
Related Event: Craft BIKE Transalp
Of all the mountain bike stage races, the Bike Transalp is perhaps the most complete journey. It’s a classic point to point stage race from southern Germany through to Riva del Garda. The route has changed its shape, as has the length of the race. Now a 7 day format, with an increasingly technical route, the […]