On Sunday 6 October Tim Dunford and Ben Thomas travelled the long journey in the comfort of the Vauxhall Vivaro team van to the Jura region of France to compete in the latest round of UCI Mountain Bike Marathon Series, Extreme Sur Loue. Here’s how they got on. As titles go Extreme-sur-Loue might conjure up […]
XCM World Championships 2012 – Periklis and Langvad dominate
“In a hard-fought race over an extremely tough, muddy, slippery course, and run off in near-constant rain, Urs Huber has claimed the title of Marathon World Champion 2012. An unfortunate Christoph Sauser took second after an untimely mechanical left Huber alone in front. Alban Lakata rounded out the podium in third place. In the women’s […]
Marathon World Championships Preview
With the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships set to kick off in Ornans, France in less than twelve hours, MarathonMTB.com takes a look at those we expect to make the race in the men’s and women’s fields respectively. Men With two former world champions (Alban Lakata and Massimo de Bertolis) and the current world […]