2014 Mont Sainte Anne Downhill World Cup Qualifying Results

2014 UCI Mont Sainte Anne Downhill WC Qualifying Results Men

2014 UCI Mont Sainte Anne Downhill WC Qualifying Results Women

2014 UCI Mont Sainte Anne Downhill WC Qualifying Results Junior Men

Teams Named For 2014 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

Seven men were selected in the elite division with automatic bids coming for Aaron Gwin (Wildomar, Calif./Factory Specialized), Neko Mulally (Pisgah Forest, N.C./Trek World Cycling) and Kevin Aiello (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif./KHS Bicycles), while Logan Binggeli (Saint George, Utah/KHS Bicycles), Eliot Jackson (Westlake Village, Calif.), Kiran MacKinnon (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Max Morgan (Duluth, Ga.) earned discretionary selections.

Gwin received the automatic nod after winning the 2014 Gravity Mountain Bike National Championships on June 22 in Angel Fire, N.M., taking top-five finishes at the first three World Cups of the season and for being ranked second in the UCI World Cup overall rankings as of Aug. 1. Mulally’s automatic selection came after placing third at World Cup #2 in Cairns, Australia, April 25, and for being ranked ninth overall in the UCI World Cup rankings as of Aug. 1. Aiello earned his automatic selection because he leads the men’s Pro Mountain Bike Gravity Tour (GRT) rankings as of Aug. 1 with 153 points.
 
Receiving discretionary selections, Binggeli placed fourth at the 2014 Gravity Mountain Bike National Championships, while Jackson took 25^th at World Cup #2 in Cairns, 35^th at World Cup #3 in Fort William, Scotland, on June 7, and 45^th at World Cup #4 in Leogang, Austria, June 15. McKinnon took top-10 results at the 2014 Gravity Mountain Bike National Championships, the April 13 Sea Otter Classic and the Pro GRT Plattekill Gravity Open in Roxbury, N.Y., May 21-25.
 
Also receiving automatic bids are Jill Kintner (Seattle, Wash./Team Norco Intl.) and Alison Zimmer (Lincoln, Vt. VT/Gravity Racing-Xprezo), who are the lone U.S. elite women’s selections for the 2014 Mountain Bike World Championships.
 
Kintner nabbed her automatic bid after taking the win at the 2014 Gravity Mountain Bike National Championships, placing third at World Cup #1 in Pietermaritzburg, Russia, April 12, taking fifth at World Cup #3 and being ranked sixth in the UCI World Cup Rankings as of Aug. 1. Zimmer’s automatic bid came from being ranked first in Pro GRT rankings as of Aug. 1.
 
Three juniors men took automatic bids to the 2014 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, as Luca Shaw (Hendersonville, N.C./SRAM-Troy Lee Designs), Shane Leslie (Birmingham, Mich.) and Chase Nelson (Littleton, Colo./Trek Southridge Racing) accomplished enough in 2014 to get the nod, while Charlie Harrison (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.) and Matt Branney (Littleton, Colo.) were granted discretionary selections.

Shaw took the win at World Cup #1 and placed third at World Cup #4 to punch his ticket, while Leslie recorded the fastest junior time at the 2014 Gravity Mountain Bike National Championships to earn the automatic bid. Nelson recorded the fastest junior time among the Pro GRT rider pool at the event.
 
Earning discretionary selections, Harrison took second at the 2014 Gravity Mountain Bike National Championships as well as at the fifth Pro GRT competition, the July 20 Bikes, Brews and Views in Beach Mountain, N.C., while Branney recorded top-five finishes at the Pro GRT’s NW Cup April 19-20 in Port Angeles, Wash., the Plattekill Gravity Open, May 21-25, in Roxbury, N.Y., and at Bikes, Brews and Views, as well as a seventh-place result at the Gravity Mountain Bike National Championships.

Michelle Pederson (Los Alamos, N.M./Bike n Sport Racing) notched the lone juniors women’s automatic bid after winning the Junior National Championship, while Taylor Allison (Woodstock, N.Y.) got the discretionary nod for taking third at the Plattekill Gravity Open.

2014 USA World's Team Announced

2015 UCI MTB World Cup Calendar Announced

The 2015 Mountain Bike World Cup schedule has been released by the UCI with nine rounds confirmed for next year.

There will be seven rounds in Downhill (DH) and six for Cross-Country (XCO), with two new locations appearing on the World Cup calendar for 2015.

The first of the new destinations, Lourdes in France, will have the have the honour of opening the season next April, with the downhill racers kicking-off the World Cup action.

Lenzerheide in Switzerland is the other first time venue for 2015 and will host both DH and XCO racing on July 4 and July 5. The first round of the XCO World Cup begins with racing at Nové Město na Moravě on May 23 and May 24, before moving to Albstadt the next weekend.

The DH courses at Fort William and Leogang continue their regular appearances on the World Cup schedule, with the action taking place on consecutive weekends in June, while North America mainstays Mont-Sainte-Anne and Windham host both DH and XCO racing in August.

Val di Sole in Italy will see the finale of the World Cup season with the overall winners in both DH and XCO being decided there.

The Cross-Country Eliminator disappears from the World Cup schedule for 2015 but will still be part of the World Championships.

Check out the full schedule below.

2015 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup calendar

DHI #1: Lourdes (France) – April 11-12
XCO #1: Nové Město na Moravě (Czech Republic) – May 23-24
XCO #2: Albstadt (Germany) – May 30-31
DHI #2: Fort William (Great Britain) – June 6-7
DHI #3: Leogang (Austria) – June 13-14
XCO #3/DHI #4: Lenzerheide (Switzerland) – July 4-5
XCO #4/DHI #5: Mont-Sainte-Anne (Canada) – August 1-2
XCO #5/DHI #6: Windham (United States) –  August 8-9
XCO #6/DHI #7: Val di Sole (Italy) – August 22-23

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Santa Cruz Syndicate Reveal New World Cup Race Bike For Mont Sainte Anne

Now the Rat's really out of the bag!

The Santa Cruz Syndicate are constantly testing new products as they maraude around the globe on their UCI World Cup campaign.  Sometimes these products have subtle adapations that demand a trained eye to pick up on.  Other times it's a little more obvious.

The rat was out of the bag when Josh Bryceland won the UK National Championships on an unmarked vehicle in Innerleithen on July 20th.

So, while we're unable to confirm ANY details about the bikes the guys are racing on in Mont Sainte Anne, we're not going to deny that what you see here isn't happening...

Looks like 650b will be coming to a future V-10 along with some angle changes and shock leverage changes.