While we took a punt at what was going on with Jolanda Neff’s new Trek XC bike earlier this week, most of what we didn’t know is now revealed through an entertaining but a little weird parody video. It’s really short travel, looks like a hardtail and rides like a full suspensions bike apparently. The […]
Jolanda Neff’s all-new Trek XC bike
For anyone following the World Cup cross-country racing this year, you will have seen XCO phenom (and 2016 XCM World Champion) Jolanda Neff racing on a new full-suspension bike. There’s nothing totally crazy about that, but until the racing at the UCI XCO World Championships in Canada on the weekend, the shock and linkage on […]
Bike Check: Jolanda Neff’s Kross Earth
Jolanda Neff is one of the most exciting and dynamic riders in cross-country racing. She is the reigning XCO World Champion and won the XCM World Championships in 2016. Neff has also confirmed she will ride the Whaka 100 in New Zealand this October. Since riding for Kross Neff has been on a Kross Level hardtail, […]
Jolanda Neff signs up for the Whaka100
The Whaka100 has long been touted as one of the Southern Hemisphere’s toughest mountain bike marathons. The 105km course takes in the world class mountain bike trails of Rotorua. Elite World Mountain Bike Champion, Jolanda Neff, will be the favourite in the women’s field of the 12th edition of this 100km race. The 25 year old Swiss […]
Bike Check: Jolanda Neff’s Kross Level
The Swiss mountain bike superstar Jolanda Neff has just won her first Elite Women’s XCO World Title, with a commanding display of technical ability, fitness and race tactics in Cairns, Australia. Although Neff won the XCM World Championships in 2016, this is her first elite title in XCO, which is her main discipline. She’s just […]
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 […]
Jolanda Neff to race UCI XCM World Championships
With the UCI Cross-Country Marathon (XCM) World Championships falling just one week ahead of the Cross-Country World Championships, you could expect the start lists in the XCM Worlds to be somewhat diminished with the premier cross-country discipline taking place in Nove Mesto in early July. However, not only have Annika Langvad and Jaroslav Kulhavy announced […]