Dylan goes to the Sea Otter Classic

These days MTBVT has spies everywhere, from New Zealand to California. Dylan Conte, the Stowe, VT based former shop grom turned pro DH racer sent us some top-secret headcam footage from his couple laps around the 2013 Sea Otter Classic Speed and Style course. The kid did pretty well, qualifying 15th among the best racers [...]

Winterbike 2013 Recap

MTBVT’s Second Annual Winterbike Festival Hosts 200+ Fat-Tire Bikers For immediate release – On March 9, 2013, more than 200 biking enthusiasts basked in the mild temperatures of a glorious winter’s day and rode in the Second Annual Winterbike Festival. Organized by Mountain Bike Vermont and the Kingdom Trails Association, Winterbike 2013 was hosted at [...]

World Cup Downhill in our Backyard

My favorite part of the mountain bike season usually comes in June. No, I’m not talking about the Blackfly hatch, I’m talking about our annual visit from the World’s elite Downhillers. Every year for the last 21 years, they have come to Mont Sainte Anne for a week of racing above the St Lawrence. I [...]

Wilmington Whiteface 100 Race Report

Wilmington Whiteface 100 by Matt Montross The Wilmington Whiteface 100 is the East Coast qualifier for the Leadville 100.  Leadville has gained broader appeal in the last few years since Lance Armstrong decided to add it to his program, and as a result Life Time fitness has started running a series of Leadville events that [...]

One Down, Many To Go

I’m glad my first race of the year is out of the way. This week was the first Wednesday Worlds at Catamount, and my first race of the year.  Sure I’d been training pretty aggressively and had some new found trail skills to put to use, but a lot has happened since my last event [...]