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Detailed explanation-1: -Shimla: Asia’s oldest cross-country mountain biking race, MTB Himalayas, is all set to get underway on Saturday, bikers from all around the world gear up to cycle their way from Shimla to Dharamshala.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Silk Road race stretches about 1, 155 miles across Kyrgyzstan’s mountains, from frigid, treeless alpine tundra down to green, sweltering valleys, and back up again. Riders who finish will log over 101, 200 total feet of ascent over the week-plus race.

Detailed explanation-3: -Crankworx Rotorua Watch the full recap from the final stop of the world’s biggest MTB festival, Crankworx. The Crankworx World Tour has been an ever-present in mountain bike seasons for as long as we care to remember, and in 2022, festival stops are due in Innsbruck, Rotorua, Cairns and Whistler.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Inca Avalanche is a mass start enduro style downhill mountain bike race. It is one continuous run from the start to the finish line – about 5, 900 vertical feet of descending over approximately 25-40 minutes.

Detailed explanation-5: -The different disciplines of mountain bike racing. Just like motorsports have numerous race disciplines, the same is true of mountain biking. The main disciplines are downhill, cross-country, slopestyle, enduro and four-cross.