Available from today: March issue of Ride

It's on - the season has started with the first 2019 issue of Ride! The richly illustrated magazine conjures up springtime feelings in everyday life with its many colors and makes season planning easier. For example, with the panoramic trail in Davos, the two-day Gottardo Pass tour, the Punta Chaligne in Aosta or the trail trip to Lisbon.

What's on the agenda for the 2019 season? The list gets four items longer in one fell swoop with the March issue of Ride. Namely the Panorama Trail in Davos, one of the classic mountain bike routes in Graubünden. What's special about it: almost 100 percent singletrack. There are also many trails on the Gottardo Pass Tour, a two-day bike adventure through the heart of Switzerland. For the ascents to Grimsel, Nufenen, Gotthard and Susten, the speedy post buses are used. The next entry in the season plan: the Punta Chaligne in Aosta. The region is known for its trails, but what Aosta's local mountain has to offer is hard to beat. At most with a city trip to Lisbon. Hardly any other city in Europe has so many single trails in the urban area or in the neighboring Sintra Mountains. You can read all about it in the March issue of Ride.

But the March issue also has more to offer than just single trails. For example, Ride explores the question of why depression is a recurring problem in top-class sport - despite winning the Olympics and the world championship. And there is also a bit of self-irony in the magazine: A nice story describes how we mountain bikers pigeonhole ourselves - we have to smile about ourselves sometimes.

Bike and accessory tests are of course just as much a part of the March issue of Ride as the varied lounge or the photo series by selected photographers. And what has been true for all previous issues of Ride is no different for issue 01/2019: above-average quality pictures, a loving design and a varied lounge with lots of interesting and unusual news from the world of mountain biking.

Contents of Ride 01/2019:

Extensive lounge pages with all the important news from the sport of mountain biking
Portfolio Robb Thomson
Report: Depression in top-class sport
Clichés of mountain bikers - how we pigeonhole our sport
Photo report: Lisbon, the trail spot for a weekend trip
In the test:
Touring report: Davos panoramic trail
Tour report: Gottardo pass tour (Susten-Grimsel-Nufenen-Gotthard)
Touring report: Punta Chaligne, Aosta