The hub for marathon mountain biking
Since its inception, the Cape to Cape MTB race in Western Australia has continued to grow in size and importance. From a humble beginning, the Cape to Cape MTB Race is now one of the biggest mountain bike stage races in the world, attracting over 1000 keen mountain bikers to the Margaret River region for […]
It feels like the action and excitement of the third Perskindol Swiss Epic has only just subsided, but already a clean edit of some of the action is online. For the 2016 edition, the Swiss Epic put the race into reverse, and created a stage plan that is as diverse as possible. With a prologue […]
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 […]
Every marathon stage race has a Queen stage, the longest, hardest stage in the race that offers an opportunity for some riders to show their class, and strikes fear into riders who are not sure of their preparation. Stage 3 was the Queen Stage at the Swiss Epic, as the race tackled 91km and 3000m […]
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 […]
Stage two of the Swiss Epic was al about finding your flow. While not strictly listed as a time trial, each team had their own start time high above Leukerbad. The stage offered more metres of descent than climbing for both racing formats Epic and Flow, thanks to individual team starts at the Rinderhütte on 2313 m […]
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 […]
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 […]
The first ever mountain bike stage race in Iceland, the Glacier 360, ran smoothly last week. The Icelandic weather was on it’s best behaviour with sun, favourable winds and high temperatures (relative to Iceland). Some great riders and mountain bike enthusiasts from all over the world honoured Iceland with their presence making the race fast and hard for […]
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 […]
