Could this be the most technical course on the world cup circuit? We were trackside today catching all the action from the courses most challenging features!
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The UCI Mountain Bike World Series unites mountain bike’s major formats under a single brand for the first time. The new UCI Mountain Bike World Series includes the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup for Cross-country Olympic (XCO), Cross-country Short Track (XCC), Cross-country Marathon (XCM), Downhill (DHI), Enduro (EDR) and E-enduro (E-EDR).
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The only people complaining are the ones that can't ride. Awesome track!
Only a matter of time XC riders going to have to learn to pump and jump lol.
Puck wearing knee pads!
Tracks like this will result in me watching XC races, and normally XC is not my thing. Will we see kneepads in an XC race???
Wes Anderson directed the shot at 12:14
I would love to ride this course…. On my enduro bike 😂
Interesting. I've seen XC racing changing more radical every few years, and I've followed the sport over 3 decades.
thank you UCI and Warner for forbidding Latin america of watching any UCI event in 2024.
even this highlights, are really poor. Looks like the plan is to destroy all cycling activities.
Looking forward to reading all of the complaints when they put a long uphill section on the DH course.
Please show the interesting uphill sections of track.
So happy to see that XCO today is completely different from that London Olympic MTB track 🤙🏻🤟🏻✌🏻
Really shows the difference between those that can ride, and those that could only keep up because they had the leg power. Great! Exactly what was needed!
Bjorn Riley always good for an out there comment.
Crash-Montana at the beginning
It's gonna be interesting if the track is wet 😳
All those rocks and strange looking logs sections… bah. Also, a lot of the riders are so stiff that their necks are going to break.
Never seen an XC course that built in face shattering/collarbone dusting columns between the passing lanes on a rock garden….and cheese grater/skin and muscle ripping cement circles off of log chute landers. Not to mention no 3rd rail at the bottom of that bridge out of a muddy turn so your wheels don't shoot off in between the vertical beams. If any of the trail designers are reading this, it would take less than 2 minutes to take a "baseboard" on that bridge that butts against the tread to catch wheels so they don't shoot off in the dew and mist.
Ya no existe la chikkenline?
Crash Montana 🤟🚵♀️
This drop is scary.
Clearly more road miles than skill building.
Finally the Downcountry bike has a home ! Or is the the birth of CrossEnduro 😂 either way it looks great to me.
Time for dropper posts with more mm's. As well, most coming off the bigger drop in the rock section are almost slamming their front end down. I'm guessing they don't want to sail off of it, but at the same time it looks like they're using their brakes too much or continuing to pedal too close to the edge (they're not getting setup enough).
DHXCO 💪
Is it me or the middle line on that drop is faster
Con flight attendant es muy fácil 😏
The former roadies jumping over to XC racing are crapping their bibs.
Finally an xc course worthy of full suspension and dropper seat posts.
Designed for Downenduro bikes. Knee & elbow pads required…Reckless who ever signed of on this. Goodbye Olympics…
Crazy 🤪🤐
this race is going to be a disaster. save these obstacles for the enduro/downhill tracks.
Great track.
Without technical features, XC is just Cyclocross…
Would love to see how a World Cup Enduro rider handles it.
Gnarly
See one of the best had knee pads on. They arent getting that much if any aero. They make great knee pads these days.
Hit it Sammy Maxwell!!! 🤘
Finally XC gets technical. It needs to be otherwise roadies will just show up and win everything cause they are a lot fitter
Finally some mountainbiking! This is going to sort the roadies from the riders!
why nobody does proper drops… whyyyyy??
Jeebus some "dirt roadies" are gonna get messed up on this course!
All the Enduro & Downhill riders are tuning in to watch XC race now, lol.l live seeing riders challenged and the best will still place high
This is a sick course, will favour the real XCO riders who put the time in on the MTB and don’t just sit on the road bike..
I do feel like we might all need a new 140mm XCO bike with new standards on everything by the end of the season.
Es obvio que estan utilizando a los corredores como marionetas del espectaculo…. Pasen y vean señores, tenemos corredores saltarines, esquivan obstaculos inncesarios de una disciplina que no es el Enduro ni el Descenso….. de chiste. Que sera lo proximo, un backflip a media pista?. Respeten las jodidas disciplinas. Xc no es Enduro; Enduro no es DH…..marquen esas lineas o tendremos intrusismo
Just cancel the cross country world cup and pump the money into EDR, this course is a blur between XC and an enduro stage and im pretty sure you'd get round it quicker on a 170/165 full susser 😂
Não querendo ser penssimista…. mas… acho que estão querendo matar alguem nessa pista!!! Só acho 😏
What is this nonsense? Great looking course but doesn't seem fit for XCO. I believe there should be a difference between the disciplines. Maybe this is how XCO evolves.
This is a proper XC course.
Hopefully no one gets broken on this stuff an hour into racing. So close to the Olympics, not sure I'd risk it if I was in the top ten.