Fort William World Cup Back For 2017

Believe it or not, there were a few naysayers that thought that the UCI might not award Fort William another downhill World Cup next year, perhaps due to the ‘weather’ issues in 2015. But no, the riders’ favourite race track, the fans’ favourite event and the the riders’ favourite fans are due to return for 2017. The dates and venues are still provisional, but are expected to be confirmed any day now by the UCI. So, here are the provisional dates so far as reported by Red Bull.

How could you resist, eh, UCI?

2017 UCI MTB World Cup calendar

April 29-30: (DHI) Lourdes, France
May 20-21: (XCO) Nové Mesto, Czech Republic
May 27-28: (XCO) Albstadt, Germany
June 3-4: (DHI) Fort William, Scotland
June 10-11 (DHI) Leogang, Austria
July 1-2 (XCO/DHI) Vallnord, Andorra
July 8-9: (XCO) Lenzerheide, Switzerland
August 5-6: (XCO/DHI) Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada
August 26-27: (XCO/DHI) Val di Sole, Italy
September 5-10: (XCO/XCE/DHI) UCI World Championships, Cairns, Australia

Not all fans were this pretty…

It’s no wonder Fort William is the riders’ favourite course – and venue!

Finish line scrum

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)