Like the eagle on Austria’s coat of arms, wings outstretched, some of the best riders in the world have taken flight, launching Day 1 of Crankworx Innsbruck 2019. The Official European Whip-Off Championships presented by SPANK kicked off the first day of action, giving those on site a taste of what’s to come. The event crowned its first two victors, with Kaos Seagrave (GBR) and Casey Brown (CAN) claiming the coveted championship belt. For those following the action from home, Crankworx Innbruck takes off tomorrow as the action goes live to the world. Over the five days of the festival, five events…
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Mountain bike season is hitting its stride for 2019 as rubber gets ready to hit dirt in Europe. June will feature four weekends of the best of the best across all disciplines of gravity-fueled mountain biking. Top downhillers will face off twice. Enduro experts will get their fourth test of the season. And the best of all worlds will join with the global mountain bike community, converging for the second stop of the Crankworx World Tour. Invited rider lists for Crankworx Innsbruck are now available: crankworx.com/start-list-results Here are some tops contenders who’re heading to Europe and will be on lining up at the…
“The one and only underground enduro trail in the world” – this is the slogan that advertises Black Hole Trail. Just by letting You ride a bike underground, suggests that it will be interesting. But after riding on this trail, I can say that this is not only just a cheap marketing slogan. Former mine Pece, thanks to the efforts of builders and shapers, has a genuinely amazing attraction for bikers. The Black Hole Trail is located in the Slovenian town of Mezica, in the Koroska region, in the closed mine Pece (Petzen). Until the early 1990s, lead and zinc…
Slovenia, despite being a very small country, has many bike parks. Kope is located near Bike Park Pohorje and it is a relatively new place, and because of that not everybody know about it existence. It do not have many trails yet, but after seeing the video that promotes the bike park I knew that I must visit it and try it myself. In the end, it turned out that here I found one of the best bike park trails that I have ridden in the entire 2018 season! The ski resort, in which the Bike Park Kope is located,…
What a blast! The 13th iXS Dirt Masters Festival has raised the bar once again thanks to the high variety of contests with stacked line-ups and a stoked crowd on the first two days. The biggest German gravity event of the year welcomed thousands of spectators to watch world-class contests and athletes go head-to-head in near perfect weather conditions. With two days still to go, we still have jam-packed hours of mountain bike action ahead of us! The first two days at the iXS Dirt Masters Festival saw thousands of spectators and hundreds of athletes and their families celebrate their…
The anticipation to ride bikes after winter grows stronger and stronger throughout the off season. Most people in BC spend the winter chasing deep and dry powder, which I have also rediscovered a love for in recent years. While snowboarding through steep tree runs or big wide open alpine features you have the freedom to go where you want and ride the terrain how you see it. My favourite part of mountain biking has always been big mountain riding and free riding in general.This more than likely comes from growing up on a board where snow eliminates the need for…
4 days – May 30 to June 2. More than 2,500 mountain bikers of 24 different nationalities. Expo Area, Test Tracks, Downhill, Whip-Offs, Slopestyle, Pumptrack, Enduro, Bike Tricks and much more. Fabio Wibmer, Josh Bryceland, Erik Fedko, Lukas Knopf, Sam Pilgrim, Szymon Godziek, Max Fredriksson, among several others. With the bike season now in full swing, all paths lead to Bikepark Winterberg in Germany: in just two days’ time the biggest gravity event in Europe finally gets under way. On Thursday the action starts with the young guns taking to the stage. The Specialized Rookies Downhill Cup #1 will see the shredders of tomorrow…
This famous Tuscan venue – its debut in the Enduro World Series dates back to 2013 – makes a big come-back in the international mountain bike scene with a Superenduro EWS Qualifier event of the highest level; a fired-up competition that, despite the rain, highlights the potential of this riding destination, a venue that never fails to amaze. The race course ‘Satisfaction’ is the right word to describe the feeling shared by all those who participated in the Punta Ala Round of Superenduro 2019, last weekend. Since Saturday’s Open Practice, that took place without the help of shuttles, over a ground saturated…
While I was riding bike in Slovenia and talking with local riders about bike parks and places to ride, pretty much everybody mentioned one place that I must go and check out. That place that everybody was talking about was Bike Park Krvavec. It is located in the very center of the country, about 30 km from capital city Ljubljana. It is quite an unusual bike park, but definitely worth visiting, and now I know why everybody was talking about it in such good words. Bike Park Krvavec Why is it an unusual Bike Park? When You are looking at…
Not long now until Austrian mountain bike paradise Bikepark Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis opens its doors to the public for an all new season of family shred. Young mountain bikers and mountain biking families can look forward to the opening weekend from 7-9 June. As it is also Father’s Day in Austria, the bike park has prepared a highlight for all dads, mums and kids to kick off the season. The bike region has plenty more action and fun on the cards for all gravity and trail fans in 2019. The region Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis lies nestled in the beautiful Tyrolean mountains and every summer, the holiday destination turns…
Danny MacAskill has released his first video on his own YouTube channel. “Danny Daycare” is available NOW, so sit back and enjoy the ride he undertakes with Daisy, the daughter of good friend and Cut Media founder and director Stu Thomson: Follow Danny: youtubewebsitefacebookinstagramtwitter
65,000 spectators! The UCI Mountain Bike World Championships last year were record breaking, the biggest event to crown the best in the world to date. Eleven months later the world’s best athletes will be returning to Switzerland for the ninth round of the Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. Both the Downhill and Cross County elite will be battling it out on the STRAIGHTline and Cross Country course leading down and laid out beneath the Rothorn between August 9-11. The event is not only vital to all competitors for World Cup points, but also marks the final contest on European…
It would seem three really is the magic number, as Isabeau Courdurier and Martin Maes continued their unbroken winning streak at the third round of the Enduro World Series in Madeira. Despite battling through eight hot and physical stages beneath a searing Portuguese sun, both Maes (GT Factory Racing) and Isabeau Courdurier (Intense-Mavic Collective) barely missed a beat – stamping a commanding lead on their competition from the start. Round three, EWS powered by Freeride Madeira, saw two days of incredible racing across some of the most diverse trails imaginable – from roots and rocks to loamy berms and exposed,…
The Enduro World Series (EWS) heads to Madeira, Portugal this week for round three, EWS Powered by Freeride Madeira. It’s the second time the series has visited this tiny island, which lies in the Atlantic Ocean between Portugal and the coast of Africa. After making its debut in 2017, it was never in doubt that the series would make a return to Madeira, which has become synonymous with some of the most scenic and diverse riding imaginable. This weekend’s race will feature eight stages across two days of racing, with riders tackling the hugely varied trails on both Saturday and Sunday. Stage…