Author: Tomas

Continental and Pivot Factory Racing have released a new film celebrating the success of Pivot’s first full season rolling on Continental’s Gravity Range, and outlines the team’s goal to dominate the 2023 Enduro and Downhill UCI Mountain Biking World Cups. Continental’s Gravity Range was officially launched in April 2022, following three year’s development by Continental’s category-leading R&D team and testing by athletes including those at Pivot Factory Racing team. A wide-ranging tire portfolio engineered from the ground up to meet every rider’s demands, the Gravity Range was designed to instil maximum confidence on all trails and in any conditions. This…

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Join us on Red Bull TV for the third instalment of the Race Tapes docuseries – Alt-Rock. Created by Red Bull Media House, ride beyond the ropes of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup competition with Payson McElveen, Laura Stigger, Nino Schurter and Haley Batten as they confront the wild extremes of endurance adventure riding. According to Payson “you make one mistake and its game over” out here. He recently set a new personal best of 05:45:16 on the 160km White Rim Trail, consuming 100grams of carb an hour to maintain peak performance. But why do it? Why push your…

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Sleeper Collective is stoked to officially announce their documentary film THE PILOT about 2022 downhill mountain bike World Cup winner, Amaury Pierron. I’ve always loved watching athletes’ documentaries and always thought it would be great to do one someday. It was when Sleeper Collective were filming me on the DH World Cups last year that we decided to go for a longer format. It became an important project for me.Amaury Pierron Amaury Pierron is one of the fastest downhill racers on the planet, one of the most famous names in the sport and one of its biggest and best-loved characters.…

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Trails, nature, authentic and genuine Italian flavours seasoned with a little adrenaline. The Valtellina Ebike Festival, scheduled for Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 May 2023, presents several news to the event and welcomes MTB legend Hans Rey as special guest. The Valtellina Ebike Festival – at its fourth edition – is a weekend on electric mountain-bikes with several events and activities for all skill levels: e-enduro competition and guided tours as well as culinary organic foods & wine tours, demo & test rides, bike shows, product expo, street-food and parties. The event, is scheduled for the 27 and the 28…

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Cross country racing is an arena defined by max heart rates, aerobic thresholds, and lactic acid; where minimizing mass matters more than anything else. In the past, this singular focus has led designers to make compromises in suspension performance, chassis stiffness, handling integrity, and ride quality. With the introduction of the new Mach 4SL, Pivot is pleased to announce that they are scrapping that playbook. The goal here was uncompromising performance. With the Mach 4SL we’ve achieved a weight and responsiveness target that is World Cup worthy, but we’ve also built a fully active, highly tractable, exceptionally efficient dw-Link suspension…

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As the sun beat down on the final day of competition in Crankworx Cairns, riders battled a raw, rowdy and fast-rolling track, chocked full of jumps, roots and rock gardens. Featuring a magical mixture of loose granitic soil and dry volcanic clay, racers had to think fast and adapt on the fly to the changing terrain. The race saw top international riders and impossibly fast locals lock horns in a race against the clock, as they navigated steep and gnarly lines before going all out in a full-throttle sprint across the finish. While some riders agonized over endless training laps…

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After a crash in Run 1 forced Emil Johansson out of competition in Cairns last year, the high-flying Swede returned with redemption on his mind in 2023. The 23-year-old found redemption as he put down a run good enough for 91.50 points, clinching the victory and tying Brandon Semenuk’s record of 11 Crankworx Slopestyle wins. Looking effortless with his precision from top-to-bottom, Johansson once again proved why he is the man to beat in the sport of slopestyle. It’s hard to single out any one maneuver from the historic run, as the Red Bull athlete showed his versatility, throwing down…

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Kicking off the double header event day, riders were unchained and unleashed on a technical and fast-rolling pump track surrounded by the lush Cairns rainforest. The deciding factor for riders advancing into the final rounds was precise timing from the moment they left the start gate to all throughout the features and corners on the newly designed track by Flux Trails. With progression in mind, the builders focused on increasing the speed for riders to really take advantage of the huge corners and fast built features. This was accomplished with a significantly taller start ramp to launch riders into a…

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For the third day in a row the vibes were off the charts amongst an especially raucous and rowdy crowd in Cairns. And for good reason, as the Aussies dominated on home soil with Ryan Gilchrist and Harriet Burbidge-Smith leading the charge down the hyper-quick and feature-rich course. The hard-packed “moondust” proved to be just the right consistency for riders to blitz through the technical combination of hits, twists and turns. Gilchrist, an engineering student, designed the perfect path to victory as he stayed calm, collected and laser-focused on the task ahead. My strategy today was to go as fast…

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“It’s been a long time coming, and hopefully it keeps coming,” said Garret Mechem on his massive win at today’s razor close Speed & Style final.The So Cal export once again proved he’s much more than a dirt jump and slopestyle specialist as he blended his effortless style with blistering speed en route to a career best result. After nearly missing the gate after the first jump, “Lil Rojo” kept it fast and loose, but managed to hang on to edge out the reigning King of Crankworx Champion on his final run. Might be the loosest run of my life,…

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Crankworx Cairns is officially underway with the Official Australian Whip-Off Championships as the first event to be held on the immaculately sculpted tracks in the rainforest. The judges had their hands full with a stacked list of riders, and freshly built Whip-Off jump brought to you by the Elevate and World Trail crews. Make no mistake that Garret “lil Rojo” Mechem was looking to go 2 for 2 as the Men’s Australian Whip-Off Champ, and this year proved he could send it the most sideways, maintaining his position on the top step. Super stoked! The setup this year was really…

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Watch the second episode of Red Bull Media House’s new bike docuseries Race Tapes, DIY, on Red Bull TV. In it you’ll discover the grit, grime and glory of going it alone, with World Champ and team owner of Intense Factory Racing Aaron Gwin, downhill racer and bike designer Neko Mullaly and YouTube bike legend Seth Alvo. There are no instruction manuals when you ‘do it yourself’. The stakes are high, but the rewards can be off the charts. Just ask five-time downhill UCI World Champion Aaron Gwin. He’s still competing, scoring top tens at the UCI Mountain Bike World…

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Red Bull Media House launch their brand-new docuseries Race Tapes on Red Bull TV. Road, the first episode, focuses on two world champs road racer Tom Pidcock and MTB star Jolanda Neff, to prove that it really is possible to trade slicks for off-roaders, and vice versa, and still ride home with gold. Watch Race Tapes, S1 E1 here: Roadie Tom Pidcock makes the leap from what he describes as the high performance, high stakes world of road racing to the “much friendlier and more relaxed” mountain biking scene. Since turning pro in 2021 Tom has won MTB gold in…

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The Gravity Card is heading into the 2023 mountain bike season with a total of five new bike parks, expanding the already vast network further across Europe: From the LAAX bike trails in Switzerland, to the Mottolino Bike Park in Livigno and the Kronplatz Bike Park in Bruneck /South Tyrol (both Italy) and the Bikepark Tirol in Steinach am Brenner to the Szczyrk Enduro Trails by TREK in southern Poland, 44 new trails will increase the endorphin level of every Gravity Card owner. In total, the international network of Europe’s best bikeparks now includes whopping 28 bike parks. While the…

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