On July 20, 2014, the German cross-country championship for e-mountain bikes will take place for the first time in Bad Säckingen. The event is entitled the "Bosch Gold Trophy Sabine Spitz" and will take place on the same race track where top athletes such as Sabine Spitz, Manuel Fumic and Moritz Milatz will be competing for the national championship title in the Olympic cross-country discipline on July 19 and 20.

E-mountain bikes in the class up to 25 km/h are permitted
The starting signal for the participants of the first German electric mountain bike championship will be given on Sunday, July 20, at 11 a.m. With a maximum permitted pedal assistance of 25 km/h, the e-bikers will ride the 3.9-kilometer circuit at the Waldbad in Bad Säckingen as fast and as often as possible within 30 minutes. The varied and spectacular cross-country race course allows the participants to feel the electric tailwind particularly well: they ride on different terrains, overcome almost 150 meters of altitude per lap and have to master obstacles, jumps and steep turns.

The market leader in e-bike drives, Bosch eBike Systems, is supporting the event as title sponsor: "Mountain bikes with electric support are becoming increasingly popular with recreational and professional riders alike. It is therefore only logical that e-mountain bikers are also riding for a German E-MTB Championship this year," explains Claus Fleischer, Head of the Bosch eBike Systems product division.

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