After the Brasil Ride stage race, the marathon riders can also say goodbye to the off-season. Tiago Ferreira (POR) won the men's race ahead of Henrique Avancini (BRA)  and Simon Stiebjahn (GER). The fastest woman after seven stages is Tessa Kortekaas (ESP) ahead of Monica Calderón (COL) and Celina Carpinteiro (POR) and Naima Diesner (GER), who finished in the same time after over 26 hours.

Danny Hart, world champion in 2011 and 2016, still has no contract for the 2024 season, as he told Pinkbike. Apparently, his - not very successful - days at Cube are numbered. He also let the US magazine know that he had considered starting his own team. However, in the current situation in the industry, everyone he told about his idea had waved him off.

Argentina is once again in a deep economic and political crisis. The original venue for the pump track world finals, the city of Neuquen, was no longer able to provide the necessary support, according to the UCI. The world finalists will now be pumping indoors at Area 47 in Ötztal, the date remains the same: November 18, 2023.

Red Bull Hardline is the Atherton brothers' invitational race with what they consider to be the most difficult downhill race course in the world. In 2023, a storm blew the race away. Red Bull has now announced that a new, second venue will be added in the tenth year of the race: Tasmania. And in the Southern Hemisphere summer, on February 23 and 24. Track designer Dan Atherton says of the new location: "Tasmania is an incredible place with everything we need to build a longer, faster track that does Red Bull Hardline justice."

In 2022, Jackson Goldstone won Red Bull Hardline with a record time of 2 minutes 20 seconds. Matt Jones, with the help of New Zealand drift racer Mad Mike Whidett, managed to be the mountain biker who made it from start to finish even faster than Goldstone - albeit not on the official course and without a bike. The video