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July 4, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Clear skies and trails for the finale at the Engadin Bike Giro

Related Event: Engadine Bike Giro

With tired legs from Stage 2 of the Engadin Bike Giro, I was happy to know today’s stage would be the final day. But at the same time, I knew that also meant it would be time to go home tomorrow, which wasn’t so appealing. On paper, Stage 3 looked much the same as Stage […]

Filed Under: MarathonMTB.com, Reports Tagged With: engadin, MarathonMTB, Stage Race, XCM

July 2, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Grimace up, smile down at the Engadin Bike Giro Prologue

Related Event: Engadine Bike Giro
Engadin Bike Giro St MOritz Silvaplana

The Engadin Bike Giro started today nin the glamourous town of St Moritz, in Graubuenden, Switzerland. As an area that has immense natural beauty, it is more often known for being a place for jet-setting skiers more than mountain bikers. But with a long alpine valley, lakes, and innumerable trails both in the forests and […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: bike giro, engadin, MTB, st moritz, Stage Race

June 30, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Snow Bike Festival stays in Gstaad

Snow BIke Festival Gstaad Switzerland

Today, the Snow Bike Festival has announced that it will stay in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad. Switzerland is already one of the leading destinations for mountain biking. With events like the Swiss Epic, Grand Raid, National Park Bike Marathon, the Lenzerheide World Cup, and now the Engadin Bike Giro showcasing the best of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: gstaad, MTB, snow bike, Stage Race, Switzerland

June 17, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Young Bull Stiebjahn leading Bike Four Peaks

Simon Stiebjahn clinched the opening stage of the 2016 Protective BIKE Four Peaks, mastering the 58.59 km and 1,886 metres of climbing from Leogang to Saalfelden in  2:19.53,0 and securing the Yellow Jersey of the overall leader with an advantage of 1.31 minutes on Christoph Soukup and Luis Mejia. All three racers had already played […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: four peaks, MarathonMTB, Stage Race

June 16, 2016 By Sebastian Jayne Leave a Comment

Vaude Trans Schwarzwald 2016

TransSchwarzwald MTB Stage race

The Black Forest in Germany’s south west corner offers an incredibly vast array of riding options that are all accompanied by beautiful vistas of classic German hamlets and rolling hills. Offering participants a guided tour through the region between 10 and 14 August is the Vaude Trans Schwarzwald MTB Stage race. Although less ‘guided tour’ […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: MarathonMTB, MTB, Stage Race

June 13, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

The Pioneer releases a new course for 2017

Related Event: The Pioneer
Pioneer Snow Farm

The inaugural running of The Pioneer in 2016 was a fantastic, sunny week in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Tracing and then traversing the mountain chain from Christchurch down to Queenstown, the early adopters this year were treated to a warm welcome to the newest marathon stage race in Oceania the Southern Hemisphere. The course was… […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: MarathonMTB, New Zealand, Stage Race, the pioneer

June 13, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Austrians double up at Alpentour Trophy time trial

Kollmann Alpentour Trophy 2016

  Christina Kollmann and Hermann Pernsteiner from Austria are today’s elite stage winners at the time trial onto the Planai mountain. Kollmann, originally from the Schladming region and now based in Upper Austria, secures herself also the overall race title at the Alpentour Trophy 2016. After a green-white-red stage win series on the days one, […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: MarathonMTB, MTB, Stage Race

June 12, 2016 By Rachel Fenton Leave a Comment

Karla Boddy’s Transalp challenge

Karla Boddy is one of the top UK domestic road riders and now also a rider manager for the UCI registered Drops Cycling Team. She is taking on the challenge of the Transalp this year but not just for the hell of it like the rest of us, Karla has a more personal reason for […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Guillain–Barré syndrome, MarathonMTB, MTB, Stage Race, Transalp

June 12, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Italians on top at Alpentour Trophy

Related Event: Alpen Tour Trophy
Alpentour Trophy 2016

The dominance by the Italians continues at the Alpentour Trophy on day three.  After a second place on Thursday, the Italian Daniele Mensi took line honours on the Queen Stage via the Dachstein mountain and the Italian overall winner from last year, Tony Longo keeps his race lead ahead of tomorrow’s time trial onto the Planai mountain […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: AlpenTour, MTB, Stage Race

June 10, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Porro and Mensi take Italy to the podium at Alpentour Trophy

Alpentour Trophy 2016

The first stage of the 18th Alpentour Trophy saw two Italians race onto the podium in Schladming today: under cloudy skies and in wet racing conditions the Italian Marathon Champion Samuele Porro won ahead of Daniele Mensi. The Austrian Hermann Pernsteiner was third and fellow local rider Christina Kollmann won the women’s classification on the […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: AlpenTour, Austria, Stage Race

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