Round 3 of the Essex Summer Evening Series was a new style of event this year's series, to mix things up a bit organisers Travers Bikes decided to run an XC Eliminator with a few tweaks. One of the tweaks was that you didn’t get eliminated! They thought it was only fair that everyone got the same...
There's a growing excitement for the UK XC scene's international race prospects. Qualification for Rio may not have gone to plan but we have an abundance of riches within the Junior and Under 23 teams with numerous podiums, medals and victories to their credit. The youngsters are showing what they...
With the Ritchey Bristol Bikefest - powered by Heritage Volkswagen - less then a month away, and after the annoucment earlier this week that it would (possibly) be, after 15 years, the last ever BikeFest, now is definitley the time to get your entry in and guarantee your spot on this potentially...
Round 2 of the Essex Summer Evening Series was held on Tuesday night at the infamous 2012 Olympic MTB venue now renamed Hadleigh Park. All riders started at 19:00 with a minute gap between groups just as the evening was starting to cool down in stark contrast to the riders who set off at a...
With just a few days to go organisers Run & Ride have been busy putting the final plans in place and double checking to make sure everything is ready for the Cannock Chase Summer Classic on Sunday 22nd May. After a few scouting laps around the course last night, they report that the trails are...
Legendary London evening summer XC race series is back in 2016 for its 24th season as Beastway rides again at Hog Hill in London with two new Saturday events around the regular Wednesday evening series. There are NINE races in total in the series and the last round will be the decider, with...
Last weekend XC racing returned to Betteshanger Country Park, near Deal in Kent for the first time in two years. A great turnout of 45 riders enjoyed a bone dry 5.7km course and warm weather at the first round last Sunday. Brothers Simon and Martin Dickinson of organisers Cyclebubble Cycle...
Fforest Fields near Builth Wells hosts the Welsh XC Championships on Sunday 8th May and thanks to Hugh Lloyd we can take a look at some of the sections of the race course. Loosely based on last year's National XC course, organisers, local club The Bulls have modified the course to reduce...
This weekend sees Round 3 of the Mud Sweat & Gears Eastern XC Series at a venue well known to many but hidden away in the depths of Thetford Forest in Norfolk. Fire road 24 just off the main A134 road between Kings Lynn and Thetford at Weeting, is right next to a series of pits and depressions...
The last few seasons have seen a growing number of overseas riders contesting the UK National Series in search of ranking points, challenging courses and quality racing. Among those are a growing cohort of Irish racers and 2016 sees the Scott Eurocycles team making the trip over the Irish Sea....
Round 1 of the Essex Summer Evening Series kicked off with the same course used for the Potash Spring Classic but run in reverse. Due to heavy rain on Monday night the course became quite wet and slippery in some of the technical bomb hole sections forcing many riders to get off and run. The...
Bright sun shine met the competitors when they rolled up to the start line for the Potash Spring Classic, luckily most of the recent rain had missed the venue and the course was mainly running dry and fast. First off was the Senior Male category, Robert Staines of Hadleigh MTB Club in his first...