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Rocky Mountain Bicycles have released a new Element – their flagship XC full-suspension bike, sporting 120mm front travel and 100mm rear. The new frame design is the result of over two decades experience. The new Element has a more efficient suspension design, refined marathon geometry, Ride-9™ adjustability, and room for two bottles inside the front triangle – which […]
On a gloriously sunny day in the Aveyron, Swiss star Jolanda Neff and Portuguese powerhouse Tiago Ferreira won the 2016 UCI XCM World Championships, raced on a hilly, technical course that started and finished in Laissac, France. The elite women started first as the morning had barely hit 10 degrees. Men would start 25 minutes later. […]
Anna Beck is a Brisbane based mountain biker who packs a punch. With a full-schedule of life, she still manages to run a women’s MTB Team (Sol Breads-Cyclinic), coach a number of athletes, and race national level XCO and XCM, plus state level road. This year, Beck made it a goal to represent Australia at […]
The UCI Cross-Country Marathon (XCM) Mountain Bike World Championships has been stuck into the last weekend of June. This makes planning a little easier from a long way out, but it also makes the race fairly Euro-centric. But the sport is too – so that is ok. A couple of days ago we took a […]
We have taken a look at Imogen Smith’s team bike in the past, both in 2014 before the Crocodile Trophy, and then almost a year later before the Swiss Epic. While the Bianchi Methanol 29 FS frame and Stan’s NoTubes Valor wheels remained the same those times – in 2016 the whole Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team are […]
Entry lists for the 2016 XCM World Championships have been published, and as the race falls just one week ahead of the XCO World Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic, you might expect the start lists to take a different shape. And in a way, they have. While some XCO racers are steering clear, others […]
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 […]
Racing for a national title should never be taken for granted, and this past weekend Ariane Kleinhans lined up for the Raid Evolènade in Evolène with the drive and determination to take 1st place. Not 2nd. First. The following insights come from Team Spur manager Nic Lamond. “A rare moment of indecision darted across Ariane Kleinhans’s face […]
In the whole lead-up to this trip to Europe, I’ve focused more on the Roc des Alpes Marathon than the actual World Champs race. To be held a week before Worlds, I knew that if I was ever to have a chance at getting a podium in a UCI Series marathon in Europe, the Roc […]
Leonardo Paez has triumphed in the seventh Sellaronda Hero in the Südtirol Dolomites: the mountain biker from the Olympia Polimedical team won in the 86 kilometre race (making it the fourh time he has won the race), leaving Markus Kaufmann from team RJC Ravensburg in second and third home was Daniele Mensi from Top Race Team ASD. In […]
