Mountain Bike Action Magazine

British Columbia's first government-approved alpine MTB route Photos by Dan Griffiths When a helicopter lifts off from the Whistler valley and banks towards the high alpine, the world below drops away in seconds. The treeline shrinks to a carpet of green, and granite ridges give way to snow-striped spines and a beautiful glacier. A few seconds later, the rotors slow and the skids settle gently on a flat area high in the alpine.

After Marc Pritzen and Felix Stehli won Stage 2 of the Swiss Epic on Thursday on their 32-inch-wheel Stoll P32 mountain bikes, we checked out the Stoll website to see what the bikes look like.

Honeycomb 226ers became the first team to win a stage at an Epic Series stage race on 32-inch wheels when Marc Pritzen and Felix Stehli won Stage 2 of the 2026 Swiss Epic. The South African/Swiss pairing charged through a shortened 24-kilometre time trial course to win the day in 43 minutes and 13 seconds and move up in the general classification standings.

Max Jones and Randy Spangler got on the cover with this photo that we shot of them riding the Flume Trail at Lake Tahoe, located on the border between California and Nevada. Max Jones was the man who created the world-famous mountain bike trail in 1983. https://mbaction.com/head-judge-randy-spangler-competing-in-the-very-first-red-bull-rampage-in-2001/ Here's France's two-time UCI Downhill World Champion, Fabien Barel, racing in a World Cup event at Angel Fire, New Mexico.

The Trail Meets the All-New RockShox GENIE GENIE suspension technology is now available on the new RockShox Super Deluxe shock, giving more Turbo Levo and Stumpjumper riders access to its breakthrough blend of traction, control, and bottom-out resistance.

(Words courtesy of the Swiss Epic media team) The Swiss Epic is a five day stage race in Switzerland. The race runs from Wednesday, August 19th through Sunday, August 23rd.

The UCI Mountain Bike Enduro and E-Enduro World Championships will become the flagship events of the format starting in 2027. © Nicola Damonte 19 August 2026 - Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports and the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) today announce that the 2026 UCI Enduro World Cup will be the final season of Enduro under the current UCI World Cup structure.

Mathieu van der Poel Mathieu van der Poel's long-awaited return, Jenny Rissveds' bid to tighten her grip on the overall standings, Valentina Höll's pursuit of a fifth UCI Downhill World Cup overall crown and one of the closest Men's Elite UCI downhill title races in recent memory headline the return of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series in Les Gets, Haute-Savoie after the summer break.

Aug 19, 2026, Chattanooga, TN - Litespeed debuts the Pisgah, the toughest and most capable trail hardtail it has ever created. Litespeed enters the trail category with a bike engineered for the most aggressive riding, with precision-designed joints that enhance frame strength, even before welding. Smash gnarly descents, shralp loose corners, and send bigger features. The Pisgah slays any notion of what a titanium hardtail trail bike is capable of.

32-inch wheels aren't new, the industry saw the invasion of 32-inch technology hit at Sea Otter this spring. However, until now, the bikes built around the new platform have largely felt like experiments. Mosaic is ready to change that. Introducing the Mosaic GT i55 32, a handmade titanium gravel bike designed from the ground up around 32-inch wheels.