America's Haley Batten and Sofia Gomez Villafane lose the final stage but take the women's overall title
The Absa Cape Epic has drawn to a close and the final stage of the event delivered a day that saw the event’s history books rewritten as Speed Company Racing overcame a two-minute and 45-second deficit to claim the Men’s yellow leader… Read More...
Christopher Blevins and Matt Beers slip to third overall, with only one day left in race
The next-to-last stage of the 2022 Absa Cape Epic was 76 kilometers long with some 2700 meters of climbing. In the men’s race, Wilier-Pirelli’s Fabian Rabensteiner and Wout Alleman rode a flawless stage to secure their first Elite Men's win… Read More...
South Africans storm Stage 5; Americans continue to battle for overall titles
Stage 5 of the Absa Cape Epic took the teams from the race village in Elandskloof to the new race village in Stellenbosch. The route took in three major climbs and it was Imbuko {Type} DEV who seized the opportunity and raced away to from… Read More...
South Africa's Matt Beers and America's Christopher Blevins (Toyota-NinetyOne-Specialized) win Stage 4 with an unintentionally brilliant finish in the 82-kilometer stage. America's Haley Batten and Sofia Gomez Villafane may have come another day closer to winning the women's title this weekend
Robyn de Groot and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (BMC MTB Racing) rode a blemish-free ride on Stage 4 in the Women's category at the Absa Cape Epic to score their third stage win of the event. Read More...
MOUNTAIN BIKING WITH PRO ATHLETES IN WINDROCK TENNESSEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-_zmRM7m7I
Join Nik Nestoroff, Dakotah Norton, and Christopher Grice for an onboard lap as they ride a 7-minute long break Downhill run in… Read More...
The 2022 Downhill World Cup season starts this weekend in Lourdes, France. Who will win? Could it be Greg Minnaar, Loic Bruni, or somebody else? Read More...
Christopher Blevins and Matt Beers drop out of top three; Nino Schurter and Lars Forster fall even farther back
Andreas Seewald and Martin Stošek of Canyon Northwave MTB were unstoppable on Stage 1 of the 2022 Absa Cape Epic as they rode a clinical race to claim the stage win and take the Men’s category leader jerseys ahead of Stage 2. Read More...
The two NinetyOne-songo-Specialized teammates claimed the win in Stage One of the Absa Cape Epic in South Africa
"Oh my gosh, that was such an intense race. You want a tight race rather than winning too easily, but that was so close," said America's Haley Batten Read More...
Multi-time UCI World Champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot shares the Prologue win in her debut appearance at the event, racing with the much more experienced De Groot
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Debutant Pauline Ferrand-Prévot of France and South African partner Robyn de Groot (BMC MTB Racing) served notice to the rest of the CM.com Women's category at the 2022 Absa Cape Epic with a commanding… Read More...
Nino Schurter's team finishes off the podium after Nino gets a flat tire and has to get a wheel change
Schurter suffered a rear tire puncture early into the stage and then later on the route decided to replace the wheel entirely at the tech zone. Though he and Forster roared along at a fair clip after the pitstop, they still lost… Read More...
The season opener is set for March 9–13, in Windrock, Tennessee
World-renowned cyclists will gather for an intense start to the 2022 Downhill series with the Tennessee National on Wednesday, March 9th. The week’s festival will include the downhill, enduro, freestyle and kid’s competitions. Unlike the… Read More...
The three-day get-together in Arizona is less than 2 weeks away
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Ride & Party
The Sedona Mountain Bike Festival is a three-day mountain bike celebration that includes a main expo/festival, bike demos, shuttled rides, gear vendors, a beer garden, great bands, food trucks, skills… Read More...
Homes, cars and buses were reportedly swept away in the raging waters
The first World Cup XCO race of 2022 is scheduled to be held in Petropolis, Brazil, April 8th-10th, but we'll have to wait and see if that venue or the dates need to be changed as a result of the flood damage. Read More...
The series returns to Whistler, Innsbruck, Rotorua and one other location that has yet to be named
Crankworx has announced its 2022 World Tour, and it's back with a vengeance and breaking new ground. On the calendar, a four-stop schedule including the return of the iconic Whistler festival after a two-year hiatus, and the addition of a… Read More...
The four-event calendar will kick off at Windrock Bike Park in Tennessee in March
USA Cycling announced on Thursday the dates and locations for the 2022 National Downhill Series. The NDHS, formally known as the Pro Gravity Tour (Pro GRT), saw great success in 2021, despite several races canceling due to outside factors,… Read More...
The Enduro World Series (EWS) today announces its 2022 Qualifier Calendar - featuring an unprecedented 29 National Championships and 60 events in total across 38 different countries.
Racing kicks off in the USA in March, with events then rolling throughout the year and taking in locations across six continents before finishing in the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean in November. Further races will also be added… Read More...
Rebecca Rusch shares how she's doing since suffering a concussion in the fall of 2021, and she also brings us up to date on the plans for Rebecca's Private Idaho this coming summer
Rebecca Rusch, "The Queen of Pain."
Hello Explorers,
Welcome to 2022! I trust you are already exploring this new calendar year with adventures and optimism.
While I think we are in for another year of… Read More...
The KHS downhill team dominated the action in the pro classes
Press release from the KHS Downhill Team:
Below: New KHS team member Nate Kitchen (#57), age 16, won the Junior Pro division.
Nikolas Nesteroff (1) won the Pro Men's class.
Bootleg… Read More...
Pro Men's winner Nikolas Nestoroff. (Photo by Jerry Walton/SoStokedAerial)
Steven Walton, a.k.a. "The Swaltonator," was suffering from the flu at the race, but he competed anyway. His performance was probably not as good… Read More...
We were going through some old photos and came upon this one of Greg Minnaar from the Dual Slalom race at Whistler Crankworx in 2008. Greg has told that one of his speed secrets is to look way ahead on the course instead of looking down… Read More...
The Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship has announced that the 2022 Downieville Classic, scheduled to run from August 4-7, 2022, has been postponed until 2023. When the race returns in 2023 it will be the 25th Anniversary of its… Read More...
The 11 stops include the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania
Check the calendar to see the dates and locations of the events.
Watch the video if you want to see a great little video that shows us where on the globe the race sites are located.
The 11 stops include the USA, Canada, Great Britain,… Read More...
Bootleg Canyon, Nevada, has announced its schedule for 2022. Be sure to go to the Bootleg Canyon website (https://www.bootlegcanyonracing.com/) to register for the events and to check for any changes to the race schedule before… Read More...
Harriet Burbidge-Smith and Tuhoto-Ariki Pene take finals Ws, while Jenna Hastings and Sam Blenkinsop bring home overalls for the Kiwis
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Wānaka, New Zealand, December 17, 2021 – 27 events. Eight destinations. Three continents. Two hemispheres. It has been a big season for Crankworx competitors, with three World Tour stops, and one heck of a season-ender… Read More...
Written and Photographed by Traece Craig
Tucked away in my small hometown of Grass Valley, California, there is a unique event that is more of an experience than it is a race. To some, TDS Enduro is an invite-only event where top pros… Read More...
Meet your new 2021 Mountain Bike Hall of Fame Inductees!
PRESS RELEASE (EDITED)
An international cast of six luminaries, each of whom left an indelible mark upon our sport in the arenas of competition, technology, and journalism. Our 2021 inductees are Rachel Atherton, Darren Berrecloth, Radek… Read More...
Sweden's Emil Johannson takes home a total of $60,000 in prize money from Rotorua, New Zealand
The 22-year-old Johnansson delivered in a thrilling Maxxis Slopestyle in Memory of McGazza event on Saturday as he edged out Frenchman Timothé Bringer and American Rogatkin to win with a huge 95.75 score. Read More...
A collection of our favorite photos from last week's event
The official photographers at Rotorua captured some great photos of last week's action. MBA's John Ker went through hundreds of shots and picked out some of his favorites to create this selection.
Dan Booker (left) and Brook MacDonald… Read More...
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