The video was produced by Victor Platania. I rider del team, sempre in crescita durante le ultime gare si sono dati molto da fare per ottenere dei buoni piazzamenti a fine gara. Luk Flueckiger si è classificato tredicesimo al traguardo mentre il fratello Math trentaquattresimo.

Remember the path downhill and cross country Pietermaritzburg (South Africa)? It seemed that even the organizers had made a mistake. The track dh fast and fluid and rode with the notorious tract seemed to be more suitable for xc bike that the 200 mm delle mountain bike da discesa. Unlike the circuit that hosted the first evidence for cross country hid rocky and technical to just thinking of passing on those rock garden with a hardtail frame and a few mm of travel seemed to be too much for a discipline that, especially in Italy, thought to be only “ascents and effort”.

Today when we arrived at La Bresse (French) one of the first things that struck us was seeing the new xc circuit that ran along much of the downhill where, until last year, you ran the world cup dh. Vedere quelle linee così vicine ma così diverse ci ha portato a fare delle considerazioni su come si stia evolvendo il mondo della mountain bike ed in special modo il mondo delle gare di questo sport.

We have always been accustomed to think of the descent “sheer madness!”, made of the technical sections, steep and rocky. For reasons of organization and especially to show, il tratto finale di una pista da downhill è stato sempre realizzato in maniera tale da favorire le alte velocità e perchè no salti stratosferici di quelli che solo a vederli ti fanno scorrere il sangue più veloce tra le vene.

That La Bresse, see the arrival of the old track downhill walk along the rock garden on Sunday which will challenge the best interpreters of international cross country was something unexpected. It almost seemed that the organizers had made a mistake in the path fettucciare. But no, no mistake the world cup xc, this year, ha visto tracciati sempre più tecnici.

It therefore seems that the world of racing has even reversed, see athletes with the typical Lycra rompers along the route of La Bresse was something impressive, non solo per la velocità con cui riescono a salire ma sopraLa Bresser come affrontano i tratti tecnici del percorso francese.

Certainly we are once again experiencing an evolution of mountain biking and confirm everything is not only the races but new products are introduced each year on a bike. Se prima la ricerca della leggerezza era una prerogativa delle bici da xc oggi anche nel mondo della discesa i componenti così come le bici subiscono diete dimagranti dove anche solo pochi grammi possono fare la differenza.

But will not that we are actually talking about one sport? Downhill and cross country have been and always will be two of the same sport disciplines. It is therefore true that the cross country and all hard work and climb while the downhill and only adrenaline and jumps, are both complete two disciplines which need to win good legs but also by those qualities that a little downhill’ all define “madness”.

The path to Italian, Technical beyond belief and that each year has always inflamed the hearts of riders and spectators, is ready to welcome the biggest names in mountain biking International. We also talk about some changes to the route, soon you will find on TriRide many juicy news!

Pilgrim was ranked in first position ahead of Martin Söderström and Yannick Granieri, in second and third position. Here are the complete results:

1. PILGRIM Sam 81.67 pts
2. SÖDERSTRÖM Martin 78.67 pts
3. GRANIERI YannicYannick Granieri> 4. GENON Thomas 73.33 pts
5. REYNOLDS Sam 72.00 pts
6. KABBANI Amir 71.33 pts
7. VILLONI Antoni 67.33 pts
8. MESSERE Anthony 66.67 pts
9. Loic ESTEVE 66.33 pts
10.DELFOUR BARSACQ Léo64.67 pts
11.REBOUL Louis 64.00 pts
12.I'll go down Thomas 63.33 pts
13.Thomas BIBLIONI 63.00 pts
14.Paul BASAGOITA 62.33 pts
15.BIZET Antoine 61.33 pts
16.Simon GODZIEK 56.33 pts
17.WELCOME Alba 30.33 pts
18.MCDERMOTT Lance 21.ptspts

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