The first round of the Alpine Winter Series took place over the weekend with a new format for 2012 – a XC Multi-Stage Enduro. The event, organised by Innerleithen MTB Racing, was completely sold out as riders from across the globe descended on Innerleithen for [...]
When: Friday the 27th January 2012 10.00am – 4.00pm Where: Eastgate Theatre, Peebles / Glentress Forest, Scottish Borders. A day of downhill mountain bike information from Scottish Cycling’s experts: Chris Ball (Scottish Cycling, UCI, founder of Dirtschool) Richard Lord (Scottish Cycling’s Regional Development Officer) Chris [...]
ROWAN SORRELL CONQUERS RED BULL DOWNFORCE! On 4th December, 32 of the UK’s top downhill mountain bike riders descended into Swansea city centre for Red Bull Downforce 2011. Overlooking Swansea Bay, riders were challenged with steps, terraces, narrow archways, grass verges and some of the [...]
November 19th 2011 here at Innerleithen a classic enduro race was born, 2 stages raced in the afternoon’s unseasonably fantastic weather then fit the lights onto the bike and repeat all over again in the dark. For those not familiar with the enduro race format [...]
Over 100 young racers were entered into the last of the mini downhill series run by Innerleithen MTB and supported by I-Cycles, Grease Monkey Cycles and Tweeddale Sports Council. The track this weekend started with a bit the Gold run from the middle road then [...]
For the weekend of the 22nd/23rd October, Northern Downhill takes us to Hamsterley for the North East Championships and also the final round of the series. To mix things up a little bit the track included the whole 4 cross track, not a universally popular [...]
