A new day for the Swedish mtbikers today and what a day. Jenny Rissveds won the World Championships!
Maybe she told Nino Schurter about how to do it because he won the Men Elite afterwards. A good day for Scott, not as good as I hoped for BMC.
The did race this weekend too. Two weekends in a row racing without a racelegal bike and licens. But thanks to Stefan I had a Specialized S-Works Stumpjumper with a Khisel fork and all parts Specialized has done to make a fast mtb 🙂
Rode Lidingöloppet MTB for the 2nd time and the prestige was bigger than ever before as I had to win over my colleague Jaime and the pressure was on. I know he’s strong and easy trained, I also know he can train which I’m not good at. But anyway. Didn’t got the best start and did a lot more work in front of the bunch than I should but I wanted to keep the pace up didn’t go too hard. Pushed hard on the climbs, softened on the downhills and tried to keep the pressure proper on the flats.
It felt hard but not to hard and when riding a 8kg 29er it feels like flying. Lost grip in many corners with my 1,95″ S-Works Renegade tires but they rolled faster than every tire I used before. It felt like I could push and keep pushing. Got dropped by a guy and the women winner Isabelle Söderberg in a climb we had to walk (the ran) and ended up being 3 people with one other from CK Valhall. And a guy who didn’t want to help. We 2 rode good with the other guy on wheel for a long time. 2 others came from behind and the group became 5. No more work for me 😉 At the most technical part at Bosön I got dropped and had to ride the last part alone. Was a little tired but pushed as hard as I could and passed one from the earlier group.
Finished at 2h24min and 45th place of Men Race, 38 spots better than last year and 13min. Beat Jaime with 10min 😉 Stats here: Strava
Ended the yesterday with taking the train to my dad. And spending the day with him at the awesome European XCO Championships in Huskvarna. With winners like Victor Koretzky, Jolanda Neff and Julien Absalon
Really worth a look. A barcamera from the first lap from the test event in Rio last weekend. What do you think about the course?
The day Pauline Ferrand Prevot and Nino Schurter got World Champions there was a smaller race in the Netherlands. Check Redbull.tv for replays of today WCO World Championships.
Check here for a summary from the 5th stage of Boels Rental Ladies Tour:
Women elite:
Men elite:
First World Cup of the year is finished and what a start. Many good riders and good fights. Jolanda Neff was in the lead together with the 20 (!) years older Gunn-Rita Dahl Flesjå but took the win. Annika Langvad had some problems with wet rocks and crashed more than she hoped for loosing 3rd place to Pauline Ferrand Prevot and on last lap Catharine Pendrel. A funny thing is that everyone except Gunn-Rita on the podium is world champions in different cycling disciplines now 😉
Men elite got as excited with Jaroslav Kulhavy back in shape. Really impressed by him yesterday and even taking the win in front of Nino Schurter. Julien Absalon never reached them so ended 3rd:
Cannondale got a seattube and seatpost that flexes, 25mm if I remember right. Trek is working on their Isospeed feature for their Superfly hardtail. And here comes BMC’s answer to it.
15mm of elastomer damping in 3 different hardness:
A video about it:
Looks really cool. More info here: BMC New Teamelite
BMC cup last month. women elite:
men elite:
Here’s a video from yesterdays big road race and the last spring classic for 2015:
And a video from Lisi Osl from the HC XCO racing in Haiming, Annika Langvad and Florian Vogel won:
And a bonuspicture from the start in Tesserete, Absalon got the style but didn’t have so good components to hold up the hole race 😦 Ralph Näf and Jolanda Neff won:
Thought of writing an april fool but seemed to obvious. So instead I share a video with you. Late start this year but soon the waiting for the mtb world cup is over and the racing starts for real:
And hopefully we will see Marco Aurelio Fontana or Manuel Fumic win a world cup on the new released Cannondale Scalpel 😀
jonas wwBlog 