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TransRockies Stage: 7

The Tinhorn Creek TransRockies Stage Seven broke cool and clear in the quiet town of Crowsnest Pass as riders prepared to take on the final epic ride into Fernie.

Chris Armstrong

Aug 2, 2019 · 2 min read

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Trans Rockies Stage: 6

The ProGold Stage Six of the TransRockies Classic took riders from Elkford, BC, across the Continental Divide and up to the finish at Crowsnest Pass.

Chris Armstrong

Aug 1, 2019 · 1 min read

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TransRockies Stage: 4 & 5

The Planet Foods TransRockies Classic Stage 4 took riders from the Nipika Mountain Resort to Whiteswan Lake, BC.

Chris Armstrong

Jul 29, 2019 · 3 min read

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TransRockies Stage: 3

Electrical storms overnight had the start line buzzing with extra energy this morning at Nipika Mountain Resort and the Thule Stage Three of the TransRockies Classic.

Chris Armstrong

Jul 29, 2019 · 2 min read

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TransRockies Stage: Deux

Stage Two of the TransRockies Classic was a 75km journey from K2 Ranch to Nipika Mountain Resort. Leaving the Purcell Mountains behind, riders headed east into the Rockies.

Chris Armstrong

Jul 29, 2019 · 1 min read

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TransRockies Day 1:

The start line of any race is intense, but that of the first day of a seven day stage race brings the energy, anticipation and stoke to a whole new level. Add a thousand meter climb right off the bat, and you can feel the energy pulsing through the field like the low grade hum of a bee hive.

Chris Armstrong

Jul 26, 2019 · 2 min read

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Enduro World Series 2020 calendar comes out. 8 stops.

The Enduro World Series (EWS) is excited to unveil its 2020 calendar featuring eight incredible venues across three continents, as the fight to crown the world’s best mountain biker starts all over again.

Chris Armstrong

Jul 23, 2019 · 3 min read

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Courtney & Schurter are pretty good at bikes.

Kate Courtney and Nino Schurter continued their great recent form to claim UCI MTB World Cup XCO victories at the French Alps stop of Les Gets to boost their overall leads in the standings. Here is all you need to know:

Chris Armstrong

Jul 19, 2019 · 2 min read

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La Coppa del Mondo sta arrivando! La Coppa del Mondo sta arrivando!

In two-week time, the Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup will be back in Val di Sole for of the most awaited weekends of the season, as well as the only World Cup round held in Italy.

Chris Armstrong

Jul 18, 2019 · 1 min read

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BC Bike Race 2019 Stage 7: Squamish.

Sunny skies broke over Squamish for the first time in three days along the BC coast. It was shaping up to be a perfect finale to a week of incredible racing. BCBR started with a quick tune-up Prologue on Vancouver's North Shore. This lightning fast mini-stage seeded racers for the feast of...

Chris Armstrong

Jul 16, 2019 · 7 min read

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BC Bike Race Stage 5: Sunshine Coast.

It's Stage 5. Racers are in a relationship now - with BC singletrack. But the honeymoon is over. And like any relationship, this one's going to take effort if its' going to work.

Chris Armstrong

Jul 12, 2019 · 5 min read

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Dawid Godziek wins his second slopestyle of the year.

The second FMB Gold Event of the 2019 season saw the world's best Slopestyle athletes descend on the quaint Austrian town of Saalbach Hinterglemm, a tiny town that became the global capital of Slopestyle this weekend.

Chris Armstrong

Jul 9, 2019 · 4 min read

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BC Bike Race Stage 3: Cumberland BC.

Give a poet a microphone and who knows when they'll stop talking. "We are mountain bikers. We eat pain for breakfast,” Cumberland's town crier shouted out, welcoming BCBR'ers to the start line Monday morning.

Chris Armstrong

Jul 9, 2019 · 5 min read

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BC Bike Race Stage 2: Cumberland BC.

Sometimes they like to serve it up greasy in Cumberland. For West Coast mountain bikers, a little drizzle puts a little dazzle into the trail. However, for BCBR's guests from Spain, Mexico, the American Southwest and anywhere else where a drop of rain is enough to cancel a ride, they were left...

Chris Armstrong

Jul 9, 2019 · 5 min read

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BC Bike Race 2019: Stage 1, Cowichan Valley.

It was business time this morning as elite men and women rolled up to the start line hoping to put Katerina Nash (Team Clif Bar) and Geoff Kabush (Team Yeti-Maxxis) on notice that this year the BCBR story will unfold in a different fashion. One the menu: the incredible two-mountain, tidal wave of...

Chris Armstrong

Jul 7, 2019 · 5 min read

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BC Bike Race 2019 - Prologue

Raindrops pattered from a grey West Coast sky, threatening to unleash a tempest of a storm. It was a meteorological foreshadow of things to come. Six hundred BC Bike Racers, representing 38 countries, descended on the North Shore July 4 for the launch of BC Bike Race, version Lucky 13.

Chris Armstrong

Jul 7, 2019 · 5 min read

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Enduro World Series hits the country of fast cars and espresso.

The Enduro World Series (EWS) has landed in Val Di Fassa Italy for round four.

Chris Armstrong

Jun 26, 2019 · 1 min read

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Tracey Hannah is on a bit of a roll.

The track was new, the location different, but the top of the box in today’s iXS Innsbruck Downhill presented by Raiffeisen Club was a familiar sight.

Chris Armstrong

Jun 16, 2019 · 3 min read

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Crankworx Innsbruck pumptrack challenge!

Kialani Hines (USA) and Adrien Loron (FRA) are each riding a high after pulling out all the mental and physical stops at Crankworx Innsbruck Day 2, each closing it out with wins in the RockShox Innsbruck Pump Track Challenge.

Chris Armstrong

Jun 14, 2019 · 3 min read

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Every Mystery I’ve Lived

From the top of the Slopestyle World, it’s a long way down to the bottom. Within the space of weeks, Swedish Slopestyle prodigy Emil Johansson went from Slopestyle World Champion to being faced with the reality that he might never ride a bike again.

Chris Armstrong

Jun 12, 2019 · 1 min read

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Leogang never disapppoints.

The 2019 Out of Bounds Festival in Saalfelden Leogang has exceeded all expectations. Next to the spectacular racing at the third stop of the 2019 Mercedes-Benz UCI Downhill Mountain Bike World Cup, the 25,000 mountain bike fans who made the pilgrimage to the Epic Bikepark Leogang were treated with...

Chris Armstrong

Jun 10, 2019 · 8 min read

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Finally, women's speed & style coming to Crankworx.

Their speed and skill? Undeniable. But what about style? For female mountain bikers, this side of their riding has been waiting for its time to shine.

Chris Armstrong

May 21, 2019 · 1 min read

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And Madeira goes to Maes & Courdurier.

It would seem three really is the magic number, as Isabeau Courdurier and Martin Maes continued their unbroken winning streak at the third round of the Enduro World Series in Madeira.

Chris Armstrong

May 21, 2019 · 2 min read

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Let's check out Portugal, ok?

The Enduro World Series (EWS) heads to Madeira, Portugal this week for round three, EWS Powered by Freeride Madeira.

Chris Armstrong

May 8, 2019 · 2 min read