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Team Protek holds the stage at the ROC Laissagais (FR) – UCI MTB Marathon Series

Laissac (France, April 8, 2012) – Team Protek wins the men’s race with the Greek athlete, Ilias Periklis ahead of the Danish Nissen Soren and the Italian Mike Felderer, and the women’s with the Russian Ekateryna Anoshina who rides to gold in the final sprint, preceding the Norwegian Gorghild Lovset and the Danish Ana Antures. [...]

UCI Mountain Bike World Cup – Cross Country Women U23

Pietermaritzburg (RSA), 17 March 2012 – The Russian 21-year-old athlete Ekaterina Anoshina (Team Protek) conquered  the first trial of the Mountain Bike World Cup – XCO U23w on a very technical and hazardous trail. Ekaterina ended first ahead of the Ukranian Yana Belomoyna (Team BI&Esse Infotre Protek) and the Austrian Lisa Mitterbauer. The Hungarian Barbara [...]

1st place for Karim Amour at the BIGREEN 2012 !

Last weekend (10-11 March 2012) the 24th edition of the Bigreen Grand’Descente took place in Mandelieu (France): an MTB downhill event with 1200 riders! Saturday was dedicated to the Grand’Descente, with the starting line at the top of Mont Tanneron and the arrival right in the heart of Mandelieu, after over 10 minutes of a dry and rocky singletrack downhill. [...]

GT Skoda Chamonix Team strong in South Africa

It was a good season’s beginning for the GT Skoda Chamonix Team, with the 1st and 2nd places in the women’s race (respectively Cécile Ravanel and Lene Byberg) and a podium in the men’s for Cédric Ravanel in their first South African race. Early in the race (UCI event in Karkloof – Howick, South Africa), [...]

Karim Amour with Effetto Mariposa for 2012

For the third year in a row, French “pilote extraordinarie” Karim Amour will count on Effetto Mariposa’s Caffélatex tyre sealant to avoid being slowed down by punctures. The long term relationship with Karim, a legend on the mountain bike gravity scene, has provided Effetto Mariposa with valuable field-testing and race-day feedback from the most demanding [...]

Superenduro Sprint Sanremo (IM): season-opener event rocks!

On Sunday 4 March, over 350 Endurists took part to the 2012 SuperEnduro season’s opener event, in Sanremo (IM, Italy). The race, with 3 timed sections, was challenging enough to have racers on the first steps of the overall podium just a few seconds apart: remarkable, considering that the sum of the timed sections was [...]

Team Policumbent and Effetto Mariposa

Effetto Mariposa has recently joined Team Policumbent as Technical Sponsor, supplying its Giustaforza torque wrenches, Carbocut ‘carbon-specific’ hacksaw and several other technical product. Team Policumbent was created in 2009 by students of Politecnico di Torino (Italy), one of the highest regarded technology institutes in Italy. The goal was the design and construction of human powered [...]

GT/360 Degrees Pro Team takes Vittorio Gambirasio on board!

The 2012 season of the GT/360 Degrees Pro Team kicks off with two new entries which will go along the confirmed Walter Belli and Claudio Cozzi: the Italian SE Champion U23 Vittorio Gambirasio and the young talent Mattia Arduino. The Team will ride on the new GT Sanction (SE) and Fury (DH) and will be [...]

Lene Byberg joins Gt Skoda Chamonix team

The Norwegian Lene Byberg, vice-world champion in 2009, joins Gt Skoda Chamonix Team for the 2012 racing season. Lene will compete at the 2012 Olimpic Games next August, wearing the colours of Gt Skoda Chamonix Team. During her career, the 29-year-old Norwegian athlete won a World Cup stage in Bromont (Canada), taking the second place [...]

Shelter, Bikeradar.com, 10/2011