We are only days away from the first Gold event of this year’s FMB World Tour. After the first two stops at White Style 2016 (Silver event, Leogang, AUT) and Crankworx Rotorua (Diamond event, Rotorua, NZL), it is time to introduce some of the youngsters on the tour. The FMB World Tour caught up with Tomas Lemoine, Torquato Testa and Max Fredriksson to find out, what it’s like touring the world and doing what you love. Tomas Lemoine FMB World Tour: You showed up in style in Rotorua for the FMB Diamond Event. It’s all fairly new to you, so…
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We’re back with Season 2 of THE SYNDICATE, kicking off with proceedings at the opening World Cup round out in Lourdes France, but not before heading out to Portugal to take a look at what goes into preparing both bike and body for the season ahead.
Saalfelden Leogang in Salzburger Land, Austria, April 18th 2016 – A season full of biking action and adventure awaits all riders in Saalfelden Leogang, thanks to a whole variety of exciting events. 2016 is full of challenges and fun activities in the Austrian Alps. Alpine highlights will satisfy downhill riders as well as summiteers. Bikepark Leogang will be prepared and ready to welcome its first guests on May 12th, when the Asitzbahn will start taking riders up to the halfway station. From May 26th the summit station will be open and this year there is a new trail, on which…
The 2016 Specialized-SRAM Enduro Series has begun at last and celebrated this occasion with a brilliant weekend in Treuchtlingen, Germany. Premek Tejchman (CZE – Specialized) and Raphaela Richter (GER – Radon Magura Factory Team) went fastest and took home the first victory of the season. Treuchtlingen once again opened the Enduro season and it seems that its popularity has grown even further. More than 600 riders registered for the race with additional 150 riders on the waitlist, which set a new record in 2016. This is not too surprising however. After all, with riders from 16 different nations it definitely…
Whistler, B.C., April 15, 2016 — Crankworx will open registration for its Crankworx Les Gets Downhill presented by iXS today in the town where Fabien Barel created history. Barel is one of only three riders to win a World Championship on home soil and his 2004 victory over dominant downhill race-force Steve Peat (GBR) is the stuff of legends, films and videos. “It was massive… I can’t imagine where (his mind) was at when he was at the start gate,” says Dirt Magazine’s Steve Jones in MTBcut’s recent retrospective on Barel’s career, My Way – the Story of His World…
The winners of first event of this year’s SloEnduro series, the Enduro 3 Camini in San Dorligo della Vale near Trieste, Italy, are Austrians Birgit Braumann (Trek Gravity Girls) and Daniel Schemmel (Cube Action Team). Birgit Braumann / photo: Nejc Bole Last year’s winner, Italian Giulia Albanese (UC Caprivesi) finished in second and Austrian junior Yana Dobnig (RLM Mondraker Racing Team) in third place of women’s race. Daniel was followed by Peter Mlinar (KK Črn trn) in second and last year’s race and series winner Vid Peršak (Gaes Orbea Enduro Crew) in third place, both from Slovenia. Slovenian Matjaž Istenič…
Eliot Jackson from the Pivot Factory Racing team, preparing for the World Cup DH series on his favorite New Zealand trails on his Pivot Phoenix DH Carbon. Eliot Jackson: I wanted to do an edit that captured why I love riding here so much, and this accomplishes that perfectly. Longer shots, no music, a lot of different trails and all of my favourite things to ride. — pivotcycles.com/bike/Phoenix-DH-Carbon pivotcycles.com/team/pivotfactoryracing
Friedrichshafen/Taichung – By bike experts for bike experts: The Eurobike flagship trade show and the organizers of Taichung Bike Week will work side by side in the future. The seventh edition of the well-established OEM event in Taiwan’s bike metropolis from October 18 to 21, 2016, will be organized as a joint effort. Plans envision an event that will stretch across several exhibition areas and utilize a new matchmaking tool. Stefan Reisinger, Eurobike Head: Taichung is considered the Silicon Valley of the international bicycle industry. With Taichung Bike Week, the metropolis in central Taiwan has a high-level OEM platform for…
Saalfelden Leogang in Salzburger Land, Austria, April 7th 2016 – A new trail will be flowing through Bikepark Leogang this year: “HOT SHOTS – fired by GoPro”. The new flow trail with its easy to ride tables provides pure pleasure for all bikers, from beginners to pro shredders. Capture its 3.5 kilometers / 2.17 miles of pure biking pleasure on your GoPro this summer. Saalfelden Leogang is the epicenter of the European gravity scene and now has one attraction more to offer for the upcoming season. The trail “HOT SHOTS – fired by GoPro” will be the new point of…
Friedrichshafen, Germany – There are many design awards, but only very few innovations in cycling are evaluated by an independent jury of experts. And only with one design award are the honors presented on behalf of the world’s leading trade fair for the bicycle industry. Accordingly, the interest of the market participants in the Eurobike Award is great. Last year, 500 innovations and new products competed for the coveted awards. In order to ensure that there continues to be a fair and competent selection of award winners in view of the ever-increasing number of participants, Eurobike organizer Messe Friedrichshafen is…
April 5th 2016 – SloEnduro international mountain bike enduro series will start its fourth season this weekend. For fourth time in a row the opening event is Enduro 3 Camini (three chimneys enduro) near Trieste in Italy, right on the border with Slovenia. Vid Peršak / photo: Nejc Bole From April to October the series will visit six venues in three countries. Enduro 3 Camini race with special stages in the hills above San Dorligo della Vale near Trieste, in the Val Rosandra natural reserve and even across the border in Slovenia, will also be a part of first No…
Round two and I worked more on my set-up. We loaded up the volume spacers this week further in the fork and shock and went down on the air pressure a little. Basically after seeing the stages it was going to be like racing sandy blown out downhill tracks. Some ruts and holes would even end up being up to the cranks. It was going to be important to stay on the bike this weekend as well. I had enough time to walk a few stages and that gave me a good idea on my set-up and what to expect…
No one thought it possible, but there was more dust and even more drama at day two of the Cerro Catedral Montenbaik Enduro World Series Presented By Shimano. Cecile Ravanel (Commencal Vallnord Enduro) and Richie Rude (Yeti/Fox Shox) finished the day as they started – leaders of the race. After six long, dusty stages over two days of racing, the pair made it back to back wins after their success in Chile last weekend. In the men’s race Martin Maes (GT Factory Racing) pushed Rude all the way, but three stage wins for Rude left him seven seconds ahead and…
When Kyle Strait welcomes Rémi Thirion to his Californian motherland, it’s surely the perfect excuse to make a video. No need to say anymore, let them ride!