Young Guns of Enduro Hard on Heels of MTB’s Expendables. 20 year olds on Team Rocky Mountain Urge BP are chasing down the Trek Factory Racing Enduro legends. EWS round 4 gets underway in La Thuile, Italy, July 12-13. July 9, 2014, La Thuile, ITALY – In its inaugural season, the Enduro World Series attracted attention as a new battleground for a heavy-hitting line-up of enduro specialists, gravity legends, Olympians, and World Cup champions. One glimpse at the Team podium in Valloire, France, is evidence of the depth of experience and talent at play in the Series this year. The…
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The second race of the European Enduro Series presented by XS Power Drink took place during the Dakine Trailfox festival in Flims/Switzerland. A starting field with more than 260 riders fought for the fastest times and precious points for the overall ranking of the series. The fastest riders of the day were Ines Thoma and René Wildhaber. After the kick-off event in Punta Ala, Flims awaited the riders with totally different terrain: treeline instead of sea views, alpine terrain instead of Mediterranean trails. With 1900 meters, the sum of descents was about the same as in Punta Ala, but thanks…
ATP Livigno and Red Bull are sorry to inform that the event Red Bull Wide Open, set for July 11-13 in Livigno, has been cancelled. The interruption of the track construction caused by the Corpo Forestale’s controls, doesn’t allow the completion of the race track, therefore creating serious safety issues for the athletes. For this reason, APT Livigno and Red Bull have decided to cancel the event. Luca Moretti, President of APT Livigno has declared: “I am confident in a positive resolution of the incident, considering that APT Livigno requested and received all necessary authorizations and has followed all regulations…
Korbach, July 2nd 2014 – German tyre manufacturer Continental developed a new Performance-Line in their Competence- and Technology-Centre in Korbach, Germany. Besides the premium-line “Handmade in Germany”, from now on Continental will produce Performance-Line products in the new Chinese plant in Hefei. All the applied technologies were developed in the German headquarter and were extensively tested and subsequently transferred to the new factory. Continental X King For the new Performance Line Continental uses the “PureGrip” mixing technology, derived from the well-established BlackChili Compound, while focusing more on grip- and longevity-aspects.The newly developed “NyTechBreaker” technology, especially designed for the Performance-Line, guarantees…
KOBLENZ, 2 July 2014 — Anton Thelander calls it #mååh, to others it’s just #goodtimes. The Canyon Factory Freeride Team get their kicks from simply shredding their bikes. Nothing rivals an epic session on super smooth dirt with your buddies. Thomas Genon, Anton Thelander and Peter Henke have already roadtripped this year in search of prime locations to let loose. Despite their packed schedule competing in the FMB World Tour, they wanted to plan an unforgettable trip to discover a unique riding spot. They came. They saw. They conquered. The result is an edit that has to be seen to…
Munich, July 2nd 2014 – This weekend the FMB World Tour travels to the mountain biking haven that is Les 2 Alpes (FRA), for the first FMB Diamond Series competition. The FMB Diamond Series is a new high class series within the FMB World Tour, from which the one and only Champion will emerge. With five FMB Diamond Series stops on the 2014 calendar – every result will count towards the overall standings, so there is everything to ride for! Brandon Semenuk Once again the French slopestyle pro, Yannick Granieri took on the task of designing the course. Fit to…
Last weekend, 345 riders from 26 nations made their way to the third round of the iXS European Downhill Cup in Val di Sole, Italy. In the end, David Trummer and Jana Bartova went fastest in their respective categories. Another chapter of this year’s iXS European Downhill Cup is in the books and, again, this has been a weekend that will be remembered for a long time. The third venue of the series has been Val di Sole, after we already visited Maribor and Schladming. The Italian village in Trentino is a former and future host of the Mountain Bike…
It has been a busy few weeks since the last EWS round in Scotland. I have been on the road with Trek World Racing helping the Downhill guys go fast at the World Cups. Coming from Leogang, Austria I was excited to get back into my own racing after watching fellow Kiwi riders Brook Macdonald and George Brannigan both step onto the podium. I learnt a lot from being on the sideline of the Downhill World Cup and much of it I wanted to apply to the French round of the EWS in Valloire. Road tripping from Leogang to Valloire…
June 23, 2014, Valloire, FRANCE – After 6 stages of wild alpine racing, epic hammer-down descents that lasted up to 18 minutes, and a winning overall combined time of 1h20:39.921, the final podium of the the third round of the Enduro World Series this weekend in Valloire, France, came down to a microscopic four second spread between the top three men. Jared Graves A testament to the unpredictability of racing flat-out down mountains for a cumulative 12,000 metres of descent, (the largest amount of vertical covered in any EWS round yet), the weekend saw a myriad of punctures and mechanical…
After a rather long absence, Schladming finally returned to the stage of the international downhill business and it definitely proved to be worthy! We’re looking back at an incredible weekend full of racing action. In the end, Emmeline Ragot and Loic Bruni dominated the strong field of starters. The expectations for the second round of the iXS European Downhill Cup in Schladming were quite high, since the Austrian track was known to be the one of the best and most demanding ones. Thus, it was no surprise that some of the top teams made their way to Schladming on their…
Banger tricks filled Leogang’s evening air on Saturday at 26TRIX. Riders showed combos, which are hard to describe, close to impossible to ride but simply amazing to watch.
The next venue of the iXS European Downhill Cup will be Schladming and among the start list with 400 riders from 28 different nations will be some of the biggest names of the downhill elite. The agenda of this year’s iXS European Downhill Cup is special: we can say that the series even edges out the World Cup with its venues and tracks in 2014! After the first round of the EDC in Maribor, the next round will lead us to Schladming in Austria and, thus, to one of the most popular tracks in the world. Just to give you…
Setting the scene for a fantastic week ahead at the Suzuki Nine Knights MTB 2014, the riders returned from the first sunset session amped up and stoked on the course. “We modified the course based on last year’s experiences, and the rider’s feedback is great!” exclaims host Andi Wittmann (GER). Featuring massive kickers, an extended freeride section and a multitude of refined obstacles, Mottolino Fun Mountain, in Livigno, Italy plays host to this unique freeride mountain bike event. Check out the sheer magnitude and plethora of possibilities of this year’s set up! GoPro Course Preview VIDEO: More information on NineKnightsMTB.com…
June 17, 2014, Valloire, FRANCE – After the incredible welcome Chile and Scotland gave to the enduro mountain bike racing community in the first two rounds of the Enduro World Series, it’s hard to say that enduro has any particular physical headquarters. But if there’s a spiritual home to the sport, it would be France, and if there’s a spiritual godfather, it would be Fred Glo. Glo’s Tribe Events hosts the Enduro Series Valloire driven by Urge Bike Products this weekend, June 21-22. The location, at the base of famous Galibier Pass in the Savoie region of the northern Alps,…