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Ride La Thuile: Complete Guide to Valle d'Aosta's Alpine Bike Park
La Thuile's UCI World Cup bike park delivers 1,200m of vertical on Europe's steepest natural trail network. Season, travel from Turin, gear, trails, and where to eat in the Italian Alps.
By ZealZag TeamRound 7 Opens in La Thuile: WHOOP UCI MTB World Series Brings Four Disciplines to Valle d'Aosta
The WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series arrives at La Thuile this weekend for the most format-dense event on the calendar — XCO, XCC, Downhill, and Enduro all racing in one Alpine hub, with a night Enduro stage and the season's steepest DH course.
By ZealZag TeamVal di Fassa Enduro: Pugin's Comeback and Botteram's 0.6-Second Miracle
Mélanie Pugin stormed from sixth after day one to win the Val di Fassa Enduro World Cup as Tristan Botteram took the men's title from Tommaso Calonaci by just 0.623 seconds in a single final-stage showdown after weather cut the day's format.
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Ride Val di Fassa: The Ultimate Dolomites Enduro Mountain Bike Guide
From Gondola Buffaure to the Catinaccio south face, here is everything you need to plan an epic enduro mountain biking trip to Val di Fassa, Trentino — in the heart of the UNESCO Dolomites.
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EWS Val di Fassa 2026: Conolly and Łukasik Dominate Dolomites Enduro
Ella Conolly and Sławomir Łukasik extended their UCI Enduro World Cup series leads with commanding wins in Val di Fassa, Trentino, after two days of blistering racing through the Italian Dolomites.
By ZealZag TeamVal di Fassa Enduro Day 1: Three Stages Down, the Dolomites Race Back Into Form
The first race day of UCI Enduro World Cup Round 3 in Val di Fassa ran three stages — Tutti Frutti, 9.90, and Ciasates EWS — across the Dolomite limestone above Canazei. Five hundred riders in the field, warm Italian afternoon, and the provisional results loading as this is filed.
By ZealZag TeamTrail, Enduro, or XC: What the Three Mountain Bike Categories Actually Mean for Real Riders
Mountain bike categories have blurred as every segment adopted the geometry trends of the one below it. A 2025 trail bike has the numbers that a 2018 enduro bike had. Here is what the categories actually mean, where the lines sit, and — more usefully — which one you probably need.
By ZealZag TeamRace the Route: Val di Fassa and the Fassa Bike District, Trentino
The Dolomites' leading mountain bike destination hosts the UCI Enduro World Cup this weekend. The Fassa Bike District's trails are open to riders year-round. Complete guide to riding Val di Fassa: the Titans trail, TuttiFrutti, cable car access, best season, and where to base in Canazei.
By ZealZag TeamUCI Enduro World Cup Val di Fassa 2026: 500 Riders, Seven Stages, Two Days in the Dolomites
The UCI Enduro World Cup returns to Val di Fassa in the Trentino Dolomites — 59.58km of stages across two race days, famous trails including Titans and TuttiFrutti, 500 athletes from the World Cup and Open fields. Practice opens Thursday. Racing starts Saturday.
By ZealZag TeamThe Race Format That Rewrote the Trail Bike: How the Enduro World Series Changed Mountain Biking
The Enduro World Series launched in 2013 with a format that demanded something no existing bike category was built to deliver: a machine that could descend technical terrain fast enough to compete at an elite level while being pedalled for several hours between stages. The industry responded with a decade of geometry evolution that created a distinct enduro bike category and, in the process, permanently reset the baseline for what a trail bike is expected to do.
By ZealZag TeamMelamed and Conolly Take the Enduro at Leogang Round 4: World Cup Day 3 Field Report
Jesse Melamed (Canyon CLLCTV Factory Team) and Ella Conolly closed out the enduro races at Leogang Round 4 — Conolly defending the venue she won at last year and the overall UCI title she carries into 2026. Downhill Q1 ran clean with Marine Cabirou and Dylan Maples on top in the women's and men's qualifying respectively.
By ZealZag TeamLeogang: The Bikepark That Hosts the World Cup and Welcomes Everyone Else
Austria's EPIC Bikepark Leogang — 120-plus kilometres of trails across seven mountains, nine cable cars, and the same Speedster World Cup DH track that Vali Höll trains on, now open to any visitor who buys a lift pass.
By ZealZag TeamThe EPIC Opens: Training Day at Leogang as the MTB World Cup's Most Stacked Weekend Begins
The WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series Round 4 opened in Saalfelden-Leogang today with practice sessions across downhill and cross-country — four disciplines, four days, one mountain, and a historic first: for the first time, the Elite Women's DH final is the headline event that closes Saturday's programme.
By ZealZag TeamFinale Ligure: Italy's Mountain Bike Enduro Capital
Finale Ligure sits where the Apennines meet the Ligurian coast, 70 kilometres west of Genoa. Behind the medieval hilltop village, 800 kilometres of signed trails cross the limestone karst plateau above the sea — the terrain that has made Finale one of the world's most respected enduro destinations and a repeated stop on the UCI Enduro MTB World Cup calendar.
By ZealZag TeamFinale Ligure: Italy's Purpose-Built Enduro Capital on the Ligurian Coast
Finale Ligure is a small Ligurian coastal town where the limestone hills directly behind the beach hold several hundred kilometres of purpose-developed enduro trail. The Enduro World Series has raced here multiple times. The town has rebuilt its service economy around mountain biking. By most measures, it is the most complete enduro destination in Europe.
By ZealZag TeamPreparing for Your First Multi-Day MTB Stage Race
Multi-day mountain bike stage racing has one demand that no single-day event prepares you for: recovering overnight and performing again at full intensity the following morning, for seven or eight consecutive days. The training block, the race-week disciplines, and the gear decisions are all oriented toward that single requirement.
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