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Antur Stiniog was the setting again for this year’s GT Factory Racing Experience day. We went along for the day’s riding with the team and to hook up with Dan Atherton and get some of his thoughts about winter training and future plans. He was back in the UK between racing EWS Ireland and EWS Scotland, so we sat down and had a head to head.

Athy can still pull some serious shapes!
Athy can still pull some serious shapes!

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After kicking off at the coastline of Tuscany in Punta Ala, Italy, the European Enduro Series touches new ground in another spectacular venue and travels to the ‘Bike Republic Sölden’ in Austria. The second stop will be held in the course of the ‘Open Borders’ opening. From icy glaciers to gnarly and rooty trails, the riders will shred every imaginable terrain during stop #2 on July 4th and 5th 2015.

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Finally after a big winter break the season opener for the UKGE team was upon us, as the rolling circus that is the UK’s premier race series hit Triscombe in the southwest (near Minehead). The promise was to be that of tougher tracks, more sponsorship, new timing chips, a greater exhibitor/team race presence with all the usual competitor bravado that goes with it. So off we all headed as the...

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Moab, Utah has become a traditional mountain bike season starting location in the central United States. The typical hot weather and loads of trails have made it a favorite of many people going back 25 years. That’s pretty much the entire existence of mountain biking. And Moab has stepped up their trail game in the last couple years, after resting on it’s laurels for some time before that.

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I’m not sure if it was the 4 AM start or the industrial strength coffees that I had drunk, but I was buzzing with excitement as I drove up the A9. As I made my way North, towns and villages were soon replaced with endless heather covered moorland and remote peaks started to dominate the horizon. The sun had risen to reveal a spectacular day in the Scottish Highlands, but it was the event I was...

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