If this doesn’t get you fired up for the weekend and the first round of the UCI DH World Cup in Leogang, we don’t know what will. The iXS Not a Race test session is not a race, but there are times, and it looks suspiciously like one.. but it isn’t, ok?
It wasn’t a race, or was it? Times didn’t count, or did they? One thing is for sure: the second annual Not a Race iXS Cup test session in Schladming, Austria, has seen some serious Downhill MTB business brought to us by a packed roster of the world’s fastest riders.
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It was Bernard Kerr and Nina Hoffman that went fastest on day one. On day two, Joe Breeden and Vali Holl took the fastest times. You can see the results for day one here, and day two here.
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Watch both the XC and the DH in Leogang this weekend, live on Red Bull.
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