Christian Pfäffle of STEVENS MTB Racing Team rode a fantastic race at the Cross Country World Championships in Nove Mest, Czech Republic. Starting from position 100, he rode up to place 15 on his new STEVENS Jura Carbon therefore becoming best ranked rider of the German national team.

Iceland is a special place: Scarcely populated, marbled by glacial lagoons, waterfalls, geysers, fjords, and volcanoes. No wonder that the Blue Lagoon Challenge taking place there is not an ordinary mountain bike race. It is 60km (38mls) long with moderate 600m (1968ft) mostly over gravel roads.

In the swimming leg Ricarda already left her mark and came out of the water in first place after 25:44 minutes, closely followed by Anja Beranek and Julia Gajer. Beranek who eventually won the race quickly rode ahead on the bike while Ricarda Lisk on her STEVENS Super Trofeo and other chasers were fighting for the podium places.

In the Tour Rhône Alpes (UCI 2.2) in France and in the Internationale Berner Rundfahrt (International Tour of Berne, Switzerland, UCI 1.2) Team Vorarlberg presented itself in good shape and showed great team work. Also the stage and one-day races in France are to the team’s liking: Over four stages the team rode very actively and Clément Koretzky was in good mood.

The initial situation for the athletes on STEVENS Sonora SL: The UCI World Cup in Albstadt was a premiere for Antonia Daubermann and Christian Pfäffle, who both for the first time started in a higher racing category: Antonia Daubermann (18) in the U-23-class, Christian (23) in the Elite category. Accordingly, they had to start further behind in their respective grid.

The ”nationale Fietstest” (”national bike test”) conducted by De Telegraaf, one of the Netherland’s major newspapers, is published every year in spring for the beginning of the cycling season as a special supplement but also as an app. The overall reviews of all categories of bikes explain what now is available in the shops.

Sören Nissen won the Roc Marathon of the Roc d’Ardenne bike festival in Belgium for the third time in a row. The Danish Marathon Champion prevailed in the 82.7 km (51.4mls) UCI World Series race including 2,350m (7,709ft) of climbing in 3:51:51 hours against a strong competition.