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Every trail is a temporary arrangement of much older things.

Rock, sediment, pressure, erosion. Millions of years of movement beneath a few metres of dirt.

Right now, the world’s best are racing across a few kilometres of that terrain in Val di Sole, Italy.

Fossil Fern is our take on geology. Four helmets, one colourway, a little piece of time.

One short track, one long list of ways to make up or lose positions.

With 20–25 minutes of racing packed onto a 1.5–2 km circuit, World Cup XCC racing leaves no time for the pace to settle 😮‍💨.

The elite Wilier-Vittoria MTB Factory Team team in Les Gets.

Where a training ride meets the good life.

Danni Shrosbree 🍓 in the Trenta Mips, somewhere high in the build-up to the Leadville Trail 100 this weekend. Good luck to our fave wild card entry winner 🍓.

🎞️ Ulysse Daessle

Everesting is a tough enough challenge. Doing it paralysed from the waist down, using only your arms to climb, makes it a different kind of effort.

Andrea Foppoli rolled out at 2:50am with ice cubes, homemade cakes and friends coming and going throughout the day.

With every ascent of Teglio–Prato Valentino, the atmosphere shifted and it became less about whether Andrea would make it, and more about what his ride might make other people believe is possible.

14 hours, 32 minutes. 11 ascents. 9,216 metres, just to be sure. The first official Everesting by handbike.

Going into the Tour de France Femmes, Elisa Longo Borghini called it a “beast.”

She wasn’t even sure she’d make it to the end.

Nine days later, she and the team have done a whole lot more than that: third on GC, three riders in the top seven, nine days of attacking, adapting, chasing and pushing each other forward.

The beast wasn’t tamed.

It was met head-on.

And what a race.

Going into the Tour de France Femmes, Elisa Longo Borghini called it a “beast.”

She wasn’t even sure she’d make it to the end.

Nine days later, she and the team have done a whole lot more than that: third on GC, three riders in the top ten, nine days of attacking, adapting, chasing and pushing each other forward.

The beast wasn’t tamed.

It was met head-on.

And what a race.

SSX Mystery Tour just had its biggest edition: 120 riders.

In the world of cycling events, that’s both a lot of people and almost nobody.

They arrived in Forest Row, somewhere between Brighton and London, at 5:30am for 255 kilometres and 4,000 metres of climbing, on a route that race organiser Liam Yates kept secret until just four days before.

No start-line production, no feed stations, no finish arch. Just a GPX file, a few confirmed cafés and water stops, and a line on your bike computer to follow.

Liam Yates’ SSX Mystery Tour sits somewhere between a race and a big day out. Serious enough to attract riders chasing the clock, but loose enough that everyone’s day unfolds differently.

The first riders returned after around 13 hours, with Liam arriving just 45 minutes later – too late to join the welcoming committee at the finish for the fastest, but he stayed out serving pizzas to basically everyone else.

Others kept moving through the night, including a trio who briefly left the route for a McDonald’s stop before finishing around 9am the following morning.

Around 45–50 riders completed the full course — the most in SSX Mystery Tour’s history.

The finish was a football pitch, pizzas, camping chairs, cold drinks, family picnics and tired riders slowly appearing back from the multi-terrain route.

Like we said: a big day out.

millie gibbons, second woman back, what did you think?

A dry bridleway in the Peak District is one of the UK’s more underrated luxuries. According to Kelly-Jayne, this one on Burbage Edge is “delicious” and we’re inclined to agree.

👀 Kelly in the MET Shelter, and some great British wildlife.

Photo Cotic Bicycles / ollie