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Feature, Issue #025, Racing -

Self-experiment – racing the EWS as an amateur in the BMC Racing Team

With my heart pounding in my chest the clock ticks to zero, and I stumble my way out of the start gate. Overly eager to match the pace this bike and kit are used to, I ride like a newborn foal taking its first steps, overshooting and blowing turns until, sure enough, I explode over the bars to sample the French dirt. What the hell was I doing?

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Highland Trail 550 – Go Big or Go Home

After ruling women’s Cross country mountain biking in the UK, competing at the commonwealth games and the UCI XC world cup, Lee Craigie has turned to different challenges to reinvigorate her love for adventuring by bike. The latest in a series of challenges was a biggie, The Highland Trail 550. This self-supported individual mountain bike time trial around the Highlands of Scotland became a 550 mile (885 km) transformative journey for her and for many other riders too. This is her story.

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Issue #024, Racing -

Modern Warfare – Racing the Megavalanche with an E-MTB

I have a confession to make: “I raced the Megavalanche on an E-MTB.” Even as I say that, I can hear the keyboard warriors warming up their fingers for a vitriolic tirade of fierce abuse. But hold on for a second…this is no thinly veiled advertisement for E-MTBs, as I am a self-certified luddite, a steampunk…I don’t even play Pokemon Go! Hell, I didn’t get a smartphone until 2014. But are you not curious? Have you ever wondered just how far a modern E-MTB can be pushed? Where are their limits when thrown into a real battle? As I threw down the gauntlet and challenged an E-MTB to the ultimate test, there seemed one obvious race, the infamous and brutal Megavalanche in Alpe d’Huez.

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Enduro Girls and their Race Bikes at the EWS in Finale 2016

Sublime sea views, the ultimate end-of-season atmosphere and post-race beers with the sand between your toes – the culminating round of the EWS 2016 hit Finale Ligure once more to a resounding success. We grabbed some precious moments of peace before the party got started to check out even more riders and their bikes.

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Downhill vs. Enduro – we follow Martin Maes and GT Factory Racing

The downhill / enduro comparison has fuelled many an internet forum fire, rather amusingly to us! How many times have you heard or read the words ‘enduro is for / pussies / washed up downhill racers / insert appropriate’ being bleated out by armchair experts in the darkest corners of the internet abyss? We join Martin Maes and the GT Factory Racing team to find out more.

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