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October 1, 2020 By Ben Thomas 1 Comment

Snow Challenges Velo Vert Festival

The weather forecasters were right, the snow falls Friday night and as we stand on the start line of the latest UCI World Marathon Series race it’s a high probability that heavy snow will restart soon after the gun fires. We launch over the timing belt before slowing as our tyres crunch through the snowy […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: France, snow, UCI XCM Series, Velo Vert Festival

July 15, 2019 By Scott Cornish Leave a Comment

MB Race

There are many spectacular mtb marathons across Europe, each with their unique attributes and attractions. Perhaps I am a little biased towards the MB Race, as it is my local event, but it has to rank up there as one of the most stunning ultra marathons, physically and visually. MB is a relative youngster amongst […]

Filed Under: News, Reports Tagged With: Alpine Cup, Combloux, France, marathon vtt, MBrace, Megeve, mtbmarathon

June 20, 2019 By Ben Thomas Leave a Comment

Alps Bike Festival brings family friendly cycling event to Annecy Mountains

Ask me my highlight from 2018 and I’ll tell you Alps Bike Festival, driving back into La Clusaz this year I was already smiling. This typical French mountain village nestled below the snowy peaks of the Annecy Mountains is becoming a summer playground for mountain bikers and families. The summer season might be another month away but the […]

Filed Under: MarathonMTB.com, Reports Tagged With: Festival, France, La Clusaz, UCI MTB, uci world marathon series

June 18, 2018 By Ben Thomas Leave a Comment

Snowy Peaked Alps Bike Festival

Related Event: Alps Bike Festival - UCI XCM Series

This is real mountain biking! The Alps Bike Festival and La Clusaz delivered with kilometre after kilometre of technical trails through beautiful mountain scenery.   La Clusaz, a cycling destination. I should have known better than to bring my hardtail, this race is all about showing off the 112 kilometres of dedicated mountain bike tracks. […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Alps, Alps Bike Festival, France, Haute Savoie, Marathon mtb, UCI XCM Series

June 8, 2018 By Ben Thomas Leave a Comment

Alps Bike Festival Returns to La Clusaz

Related Event: Alps Bike Festival - UCI XCM Series

Alps Bike Festival takes place in La Clusaz next week with 3 days of events. Around 4000 participants are expected to make the journey to the French mountain resort. With entries due to close on the 13th there’s still a few days left for you to make you’re booking. The event aims to bring families […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: France, La Clusaz, marathon mountain biking, UCI XCM Series

October 13, 2017 By Ben Thomas Leave a Comment

Roc d’Azur End of Season Party

Related Event: Roc d'Azur

Last weekend it was time to celebrate 2017 and 20,000 people came out to party. Roc d’Azur once again hosted the end of season get together with 5 days of events.   This could be my fourth visit to sunny Frejus on the stunning French Riviera. After being ill I wasn’t in a position to […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: France, marathon, Roc d'Azur, UCI XCM Series

July 7, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Urs Huber wins MB Race

MB Race UCI France Marathon MTB Kinaphoto

Urs Huber was the strong man of the day! And yet the five-times winner of the Grand Raid was taking part in his first MB Race, and not without apprehension. He set off in the leading group right from the beginning, and kept up the pace and resisted the pressure from the rider behind him, […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: France, MarathonMTB, MB Race, Team Bulls, urs huber, VTT, XCM

June 16, 2016 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Preparing for the XCM World Championships

I had intended to write about the lead-up to World Champs each week for a month beforehand, but life has got in the way of that plan. I’ve had a pretty eventful fortnight or so now, with Worlds just a week-and-a-half away, I’m afraid I’m going to have to squeeze it all in to a […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: France, MarathonMTB, XCM Worlds

September 25, 2015 By Ben Thomas Leave a Comment

UCI World Marathon Series – La Forestiere

  My season will finish up with 3 rounds of the UCI World Marathon Series spread over 4 weeks. The first of these was held in Arbent, France which is in the Jura region. This round was part of La Forestiere which is a mini cycling festival with a packed schedule of events over the […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: France, marathon, UCI, XCM

June 24, 2015 By Sebastian Jayne Leave a Comment

Seb Jayne: Courmayeur XCO

The small alpine community of Courmayeur is situated beneath the monolithic Monte Bianco peak on the Italian side of the French-Italian border. Towering at some 4810m Monte Bianco, or otherwise known by its less melodic name Mont Blanc, is Europe’s tallest mountain. A suitable location to hold a mountain bike race! Being a ski town, […]

Filed Under: Diaries, Team Diary Tagged With: France, MTB, Racing, Subaru, XCO

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