It’s true. There’s a 29er V10, and the Syndicate will be racing it this weekend at Lourdes. Although the move to 29-inch wheels has been riling comments sections and forums for months (#26isdefinitelydeadnow), the writing’s on the wall. Tracks are faster, times are tighter, and eking another second out of a 4-minute track can be the difference between a World Cup win and missing the podium entirely. Keeping the Syndicate in the hunt every season takes a ton of time and energy, but downhill racing is not only the most exciting racing going, it’s also where new products and technology…
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All season long, Red Bull TV takes viewers closer to the action – and the athlete heroes – of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano than anywhere else with free coverage live and on demand. Only Red Bull TV sets the stage with pre-show broadcasts for every race. And when the wheels are in motion, cameras and microphones all along the course immerse viewers in the moment. Aaron Gwin / photo: Lukas Pilz Live and on demand, multi-time Swiss Champion Claudio Caluori will be serving up his wide-open course previews and sharing the commentary box with host…
Which European mountain biker doesn’t know the bike region Saalfelden Leogang? No matter if you are a flow lover, a downhill crack, in favor of e-biking or a bike rookie – everybody heads to Saalfelden Leogang with the same goal: to have fun! The „Opening Weekend“ at Bikepark Leogang on May 12-14 is one of many reasons to get your bike prepared for the new season. Finally! After the winter break, every mountain biker can look forward to action, adrenaline and airtime. Everybody who cannot wait to get back on the bike, should add the “Opening Weekend”(May 12-14) to their…
Thinking about adding some bling to your beloved ride? Then you have to check out our new range of tasty bits! As always expect to see some refreshed designs of our frames and components as well as some completely new products. Some of the highlights of the 2017 range include more parts in your (and ours) favorite oil slick finish. Our stems, hubs and pedals will all be turning heads this year with this sick colorway. We are also very excited about our new super light, super wide and super stiff rims – the Enigma Dynamal Roll, available in 29″,…
Marin Mountain Bikes Inc. has announced the debut of the all-new 2018 Wolf Ridge, a bike rooted in the birth of mountain biking, when one bicycle did it all and there were no category-specific machines. Trail riding has evolved since those early days of bombing down Mt. Tam, and your mountain bike experience will never be the same. Welcome to the new way of thinking about the ride, the Marin Wolf Ridge. In development for nearly five years, the Wolf Ridge was designed using biometric data for the perfect rider fit, applied physics for ideal kinematics based on a rider’s…
Swedish slopestyle athlete Emil Johansson has kicked-off the new bike season with a bang: For the first time in his young career, he landed himself on the podium of a FMB World Tour Diamond Event: his third place at Crankworx Rotorua catapulted him in the top three of the FMB World Ranking. On top, Johansson secured himself the support of numerous partners: with the backing of Trek, SRAM, Rock Shox, Industry Nine, Bell, Chromag, Maxxis and Ridestore, Emil has a bright season outlook ahead of him. Since last year, Emil Johansson’s life has changed completely: after having successfully competed at…
Austria finally has a national downhill series again! The newly founded Austrian Gravity Series – powered by ÖRV Bike-Card – will feature three races with shorter tracks, one-day-events and less hassle for beginners. Grassroots downhill cup in Austria Lots of trails, lots of bike parks, lots of talent. Austria is a downhill biker’s heaven, but didn’t feature a national racing series over the last years. A thing that is very common in lots of other countries. As a result, young riders and hobby athletes had to start racing at European Cup level, which meant 400 riders, short training times and…
With the mud-fest of Rotorua over it was time to jump the ditch to Tasmania and be greeted with dry conditions and some amazing trails, which everyone was excited to see. Hopping off the plane and straight away I had my first chance to walk two of the stages and what I saw reminded me of my DH days. Rock gardens which would be wheel breakers, lots of line choices in parts and a good mixture of technical and physical riding, we would see it all this weekend. I was pretty excited. Coming home that afternoon from the first track…
2017 SloEnduro season started with Enduro Grozni in Istria, Croatia. Right where 2016 season ended. Austrian Petra Bernhard and Slovenian Vid Peršak fastest of 153 finishers from 9 countries. Petra Bernhard SloEnduro, international mountain bike enduro series, ended its 2016 season just under half a year ago right where the 2017 season started this weekend. In Grožnjan in Istria, Croatia, where the home club of BBK Grožnjan is holding their Enduro Grozni race. This year a record number of 168 riders from nine countries showed up. After a short street prologue on Saturday night and Sunday’s five special stages on…
Graubünden in Switzerland is an absolute must see in Europe when it comes to biking. There is no other alpine region that has so many trails in such a confined space. A world of “endless trails” is waiting to be explored by families, view-seekers and gravity fanatics. Over 17,000 kilometers / 10,500 miles of trails are spread over the region and with so much to offer it helps to have a helping hand to keep track of all the possibilities. graubündenBIKE has put together a list of the top 15 bike tours for this summer, to make your decision in…
It was another wet and wild start to the Enduro World Series as rain hammered the riders at the Shimano Enduro Tasmania for the second race of the season. The dry and dusty conditions of practice were quickly forgotten as the riders set out in torrential rain to tackle seven stages which covered 57 kilometres and 1500 metres of climbing. Stages that had been hailed as the most fun ever during practice became a lot more intimidating in the wet and caught many a rider off guard come race day. Jared Graves However, as with round one in Rotorua, the…
Initially the Snabb T was designed as a trail bike. A kind of a smaller brother of the enduro version. That was it’s first incarnation, and it was a good, all-round bike. But we realised that this concept didn’t quite match our philosophy. Were after something versatile, but at the same time more aggressive and vivid. The recipe for spicing the bike up was quite simple: more travel and slacker angles. With 150 mm fork up front and more solid rear triangle (thanks to improved 1pcs rocker) this baby is now ready to bomb really tough courses. The head angle…
The Enduro World Series will swap New Zealand’s native forests for the Australian outback as it heads to Derby for Round Two – the Shimano Enduro Tasmania. The series has left behind the renowned Rotorua trail network and will this Sunday take a leap into the unknown as it heads to its first new venue of 2017, the tiny outpost of Derby in the wilds of Tasmania. This former mining town has a growing reputation inside Australia for its trails, but this weekend’s event will mark the first international competition to race them. Three hundred riders will be faced with…
A big win in the Crankworx Rotorua Air DH has given New Zealand’s Matt Walker the lead in the King of Crankworx, coming out of the Crankworx World Tour stop number one. Leading French rider Adrien Loron by a significant margin of 80 points, Walker knew to be tentative with his excitement. Matt Walker Matt Walker: Last year, I had a pretty sizable lead and pretty much a month after I crashed, I broke my finger. Did surgery on it. Came back on my bike. Crashed. Broke my collarbone, and my shoulder blade, got back on the bike and it…