Johannes Fischbach and Veronika Widmann won the first round of the iXS European Cup 2016. 400 riders from 32 different nations made their way to Kranjska Gora this weekend, to celebrate the opening of the season and to collect some first important points for the rankings. This past weekend the iXS European Downhill Cup hosted its first race of the season in Kranjska Gora the race for the European title has officially begun! This year’s cup consists of 6 different – but equally demanding – races in Slovenia, Germany, Austria, France and the Czech Republic. Johannes Fischbach The first…
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Finally there are only a few days left until the kick-off of the 2016 iXS season. The first race takes us to Kranjska Gora for iXS European Downhill Cup #1, inviting 400 riders from 27 different nations to celebrate the opening of the season! It is the moment we all have been waiting for: after a long off-season it is finally time to enter a new season! For the grand opening more than 400 riders will make their way to Kranjska Gora in northwestern Slovenia. In the past Kranjska Gora has mainly been known as a popular host for Alpine…
UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup and 26TRIX at the Out of Bounds Festival, 9-12.06.2016 Saalfelden Leogang in Salzburger Land, Austria, May 4th 2016 – Airtime, adrenalin and action: The Out of Bounds Festival is a must see highlight on the biking calendar 2016! From June 9th to June 12th Saalfelden Leogang will be going wild, when the top downhillers will be racing at the UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup and slopestyle stars will be sending tricks at the FMB World Tour Gold Event 26TRIX. Guests are most welcome to get on their own bikes as well and show…
Swatch Rocket Air was electrifying! The first FMB Gold event of the season took place in Thun, Switzerland and 15 finalists battled it out on a jungle themed course. Nicholi Rogatkin At first it looked like Thomas Genon would still have his chance to defend his title. After the first run the top three riders were Nicholi Rogatkin (95.0), Thomas Genon (93.0) and Max Fredriksson (91.0). However the second run was to become insanley intense. The young Italian Diego Caverzasi shocked the field with a huge run, which catapulted him into second place, thanks to a massvie 94.0 score. Now,…
The SDS team’s partnership with NS Bikes has taken off big time. The guys have already been pushing the Fuzz through it’s paces for several months, but now they are finally kitted out out with brand new 2016 models with custom paintjobs to fit their team colours. SDS has proven that they are not just fast riders – they also have good product development skills and have amongst other developed a new generation of DH tires together with VeeTire. They have already started working closely with NS Bikes engineering and product management on new projects and improvements. The combined strength…
Munich, April 27th 2016: The season is well under way and with the next event, Swatch Rocket Air coming up soon on April 29th and April 30th, riders will be bringing their tricks for a rumble in the jungle, hoping to claim the first wildcard of the season. This year a record number of six Gold events have registered for the FMB World Tour so far, including two new FISE World Series stops in Edmonton (CAN) and Chengdu (CHN). Gold events are the last stepping stone for upcoming riders to jump their way into the ultimate FMB Diamond Series, from…
Whistler, B.C., April 25, 2016 — VIP tickets are now on sale to secure the best vantage point for the inaugural Crankworx Les Gets and a chance to be a part of MTB history. Les Gets is one of the original downhill race destinations and a place where the European riding community congregates. Sitting in the Portes du Soleil, a 12-town, lift-accessed hub for the gravity riding scene, its quarter-century of race history began with the 1992 French Cup Downhill, and has drawn spectators and families of mountain bikers to the French Alps ever since. Loic Bruni Benjamin Mugnier, Crankworx…
Points are up for grabs again in Switzerland from the 29th to 30th April! This year’s Swatch Rocket Air will be hosting the competition in a jungle setting and the unique Gold Event in Switzerland will again not disappoint. Big FMB World Tour names such as Nicholi Rogatkin and Thomas Genon will also be competing against the likes of Ryan Nyquist and Drew Bezanson. Drew, BMX star and 26 year old Canadian, has signed up for his first FMB World Tour event and fans are eager to see him ride on a mountain bike. Will Thomas Genon be able to…
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…
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…