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Mountain Bike Stage Races

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Mountain bike stage races provide a unique challenge for all riders. These long multi stage races take place in the wild and remote mountain area in Europe and elsewhere, challenging riders both mentally and physically.

Completing a mountain bike stage race is a real achievement for all finishers. These epic events are notoriously tough and require ultimate fitness and riding skills, combined with great willpower. Stage races such as the Cape Epic, Trans Alp Mountain Bike race, the Swiss Epic, and the TansPyr race in the Pyrenees where riders take on 7 stages of relentless riding challenges, draw mountain bikers from all over the world. We thought it about time that mountain bike stage races were more widely publicised to all in the mountain bike community. Each year, races take place in Italy, such as the Etna MTB Tour, Czech Republic and elsewhere in Eastern Europe,unbeknown to the average ameteur rider seeking a new challenge. Visiting these areas can open your eyes to a world of possibilities, history and culture, whilst giving you the mountain bike trip of a lifetime.

And so, we’ll be writing about mtb stage races, completing in mtb stage races and giving you a little bit more information about the amazing locations where these great mountain bike challenges take place.

This way, you can take on your own stage race challenge, or simply plan your own mountain bike holiday and take on one the classic mtb stage race routes yourself.  For now though, let’s introduce you to a few classic mountain bike stage races in Europe and give you the links to their website. All that you have to do is to click the links and enter… then get training for the greatest adventures on 2 wheels!

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Our stage race selections

Stoneman Trail Mountain Bike Challenge

If you’re a lover of mountains and adventure and you ride a mountain bike, then you’ll love the Stoneman Trail in the Dolomites. The route sits neatly in the mountains in the north of Italy and briefly crosses the border in Austria. With a distance of over 100km, this mountain bike challenge has a number of days in which to complete the ride, visiting certain checkpoints along the way, so that your ride can be verified. It’s a challenge and a tough one, but ultimately it’s up to you.
August 13, 2021/by Pedalnorth Website

The Jeroboam Franciacorta 300km

The Jeroboam Franciacorta 300km is Beauty and the Beast, gravel riding redefined between the shores of lake Iseo and Lake Garda. Spectacular riding and views awaited us, but not without earning them via some hefty climbing.
May 1, 2021/by Pedalnorth Website

Bike TransAlp 2021

During the Covid pandemic, sales of bikes have risen exponentially, with more and more people seeking the freedom and adventure that cycling brings. Riding our bikes takes us back to days of childhood, gives us the opportunity to explore new challenges and new places. And, if you’re looking for real adventure in spectacular surroundings in the future, then there’s only 1 Trans Alp race.
March 9, 2021/by Pedalnorth Website

Atlas Mountain Race Part 3

It's the final stages of the Atlas Mountain Race in the heat of Morocco. Scott and Mitch have adjusted well, but the riding is tough, thankfully through epic scenery. Follow their riding as they complete one of the toughest bikepacking adventures.
February 4, 2021/by Pedalnorth Website

Atlas Mountain Race Part 2

The Cascade de Tizgui sounded idyllic for an early morning food stop, but the river was a trickle and the café not yet open! A few of us had come together by this point, all looking forward to the momentary pause. The way out was a steep hike-a-bike up the access steps, arms feeling almost useless at lugging the loaded bike after days on the trail.
February 4, 2021/by Pedalnorth Website

Atlas Mountain Race

From mountain passes to the sea, following a route far from the tourist trail, discovering the more remote parts of Morocco’s backcountry. The Atlas Mountain Race resonates all the creativity of the minds behind the now infamous Silk Road Mountain Race. As with the SRMR, wise planning and a sense of being able to deal with remote riding would count just as much as physical ability, although the temperatures turned out to be warmer than predicted - a nice bonus.
January 27, 2021/by Pedalnorth Website

Capoliveri Legend Cup

Yesterday’s journey to my first crack at a UCI Marathon Series started about fifteen years ago, after seeing Miguel Martinez solo to a marathon win on Eurosport, having ditched his punctured back tyre and ‘rimming it’ from about 5km out. I’d been an armchair fan of Cape Epic and loved the footage of the dust covered athletes racing MTB’s in dramatic landscapes. I’m in my fifties. I still want to be that man. Tragic I know.
October 15, 2020/by Pedalnorth Website

Costa Blanca MTB Stage Race

Over the last thirty five years of cycle racing, I’ve often considered my peers and their contentment at riding the same disciplines, indeed the same races, year in year out. Each to their own and all that, but it’s not for me. It’s probably a Myers-Briggs personality thing. Firstly, I like new experiences; secondly, as a very average amateur athlete, I have never really found a discipline that has offered fame and fortune. Riding the same races over and over again holds little appeal.
September 20, 2020/by Pedalnorth Website

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