Mountain biking: This year, the "Ride Free Osttirol" club once again organized its annual "Ride Hard on Snow" downhill race. After participating in this event for the first time last year, I knew I absolutely had to be there again. Among the 71 international participants were riders from Germany, ... read more
Mountain biking: The second round of the iXS European Downhill Cup 2017 was the final major event of the 20th Ziener Bike Festival Willingen on Sunday. Slovenians Monika Hrastnik and Jure Zabjek dominated both the qualifying round and the final on the former World Cup course. This marked the second time the iXS European Downhill Cup was held as part of… read more
Mountain biking: The 2017 downhill season is heating up! After the UCI MTB Downhill World Cup kicked off its new season in Lourdes the weekend before last, the first points of the 2017 iXS European Downhill Cup were awarded yesterday in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. The winners in the elite categories were Eleonora Farina and Jure Zabjek. The track in Kranjska Gora is… read more
Mountain biking: The iXS European Downhill Cup 2016 is slowly but surely entering its final phase. At the fifth and penultimate race in Les Deux Alpes, Carina Cappellari and David Trummer emerged victorious, while Johannes Fischbach used the race as his dropped result. Last weekend, the iXS European Downhill Cup made its third appearance in… read more
Mountain biking: Over 400 riders from 17 nations provided plenty of action at the prestigious race in Schladming last weekend. Petra Bernhard (RC Gravity Eagles) and Slawomir Lukasik (NS Bikes FroPro) secured confident victories at the third stop of the iXS European Downhill Cup, despite the rain and slippery conditions. In the Elite Women's category… read more
