The Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Series has arrived in the BRAND NEW venue of Crans-Montana, Switzerland as they host the next round of the UCI Cross-country World Cups!
Before training kicks off we went for a walk of the track to check out the spicy new features that lie ahead of our riders.
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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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23 Comments
This track is amazing!
Plenty of roadie filters. Nice.
I think it’s too much. Especially the log section looks nearly unrideable as soon as it gets wet. Also the rock section. So I’m hoping for dry weather and that no one gets hurt.
Amazing track but worrying with Olympics just round the corner 😱
Hardtail? 😂
This was an enduro track 10 years ago… 😮. But hey, today enduro trails are DH ones 😅.
XCO is becoming more like downhill racing, very extreme and dangerous imo. Expect lots of crashes and inclusion of easier "b line" options.
I love the direction XC is going. This track is beautiful! All of that can easily be rode on a "down-country" bike with a little more travel and modern geometry.
I can already give you race podium
: Blevins/Schurter/Koretzky in an unknown order
They keep pushing the XC courses, people will start wearing pads and one bad accident and the governing bodies will require it.
I'd be removing those impailment sticks at the bottom of those log drops.
Now I'm all for technical xc but some of this just seems way over engineered and so un-natural looking.
Hope it doesn't rain…….!!!
Fierce 🤘
I think that rock section with those vertical tombstone rocks is ridiculous. Someone is going to destroy their face on one of those.
Yes, lets goooo. tech tech all the way
bout time,bravo to the course designer's/builder's!
Hayyy mà madre. Ya
That crash pad on a wooden bridge look like a joke after that bare rock fence in the middle after the drop.
The log section is too gimmicky.
This course is gnarly! I would hate seeing top riders missing the Olympics. Hope everyone has a safe ride.
Those center vertical rock are un-necessary and super risky in the wet. Require the UCI to have rider insurance, and they might think differently
Nice XCO track, it has 1000 times more rocks and technical odstacles than the boring Poland Downhill track from this year that has just a few rocks, boring jumps and bikepark berms.
Anyone on 130mm forks for this one.