Team rider Justin Morris whom also lives with Type 1 diabetes reports on racing the UCI XCM World Championship from the perspective of last place on the starting grid.
UCI XCM World Championships Live Stream!
We hope it’s working, but the 2019 UCI XCM World Championships are being streamed live. Follow here and you can also follow us on Instagram for any updates via the feedzone at Kalpetran and from the finish. Not sure what the course is like – check out our preview. The race will be streamed in […]
Malevil Cup attracts World Champs and Olympians
The 20th edition of the legendary Malevil Cup – UCI MTB marathon series will take place on 8 June 2019. Routes going through the forests of the Lusatian and Zittau Mountains will host mountain bikers from all over the world. At this moment bikers from many European countries but also from United Arab Emirates are […]
Cannondale Factory Racing take Cape Epic lead
Much speculation had been made around a clean-sweep of wins for the men’s Scott-SRAM MTB-Racing and women’s Investec-songo-Specialized pairs ahead of Stage 3’s 107km out-and-back loop from Oak Valley Estate in Elgin; but this is the Absa Cape Epic and it’s not often that a story can be concluded prior to the crossing of the […]
The Samarathon Desert MTB Race – Cory Wallace checks in.
Israel is a Middle Eastern country of 8.7 million people located on the shores of the Mediterranean sea. It has a predominantly Jewish population and is regarded as the biblical Holy Land. Racing a bike in Israel has been on my to do list for a long time as I have heard many conflicting stories […]
The Breck Epic goes UCI in 2019
Related Event: Breck Epic
If you have been trawling the 2019 UCI calendar you would have spotted it, but the pre-eminent mountain bike stage race in the USA, The Breck Epic, is now a UCI sanctioned S1 race for 2019, and will move to HCS status in 2020. “We want the fastest men and women on the planet here […]
Who can win the 2018 XCM World Championship?
The 2018 UCI Cross-Country Marathon Mountain Bike Championship is upon us. And if you haven’t heard already – the start lists are intense. While we’ve already given our thoughts on the course, the question of who can win on it isn’t so simple. Firstly, you should go and read the entry lists on the UCI […]
MTBA select 7 Australians for 2018 XCM World Championships
Related Event: 3Epic
Last week, Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA) published the list of 7 riders who have been selected to represent Australia at the 2018 Cross-Country Marathon (XCM) World Championships in Auronzo di Cadore, Italy, on 15th September. The women’s team is made up of three of Australia’s best mountain bikers. 2018 National XCM Champion Anna Beck will […]
Hynek and Bigham light it up at 2018 Malevil Cup
Related Event: Malevil Cup - UCI XCM Series
The Malevil Cup suits Kristian Hynek, as he won the 19th Malevil Cup by Author ahdead of 70 elite marathon mountain bikers from 13 countries. The current Czech champion repeated his triumph from 5 and 2 years ago. He beat Jan Škarnizl in the last stretch before the finish line. In the women’s race, favourite […]
Paez and Kollman-Forstner win Sellaronda Hero
Related Event: Sellaronda Hero
Bright blue skies and picture-book conditions were present in the UNESCO World Heritage Dolomites: organisers and participants of the BMW HERO Südtirol Dolomites could not have asked for more. The hugely popular race still presents an immense challenge in fine weather and the 4018 starters had to give it their all on 86 kilometres and 4500 vertical […]