The bikes are ready, all tests and adjustments have been successfully completed, the new jerseys fit perfectly - in short: style and form are right, all lights are green for the newly formed Canyon Team MTB Racing for 2021, the first full XCO season can start! It was already clear in January: Canada's cross-country star Emily Batty (32) was joining Canyon. This was followed just a few weeks later by the announcement that Canadian young XCO hopeful Laurie Arsenault (23) would also be riding race bikes from Koblenz in the future.

The Swiss Epic in Graubünden will once again enchant the teams with magnificent views this year. Around 400 teams are expected to take part in the third edition of the Swiss Epic in Graubünden from August 17 to 21. On the five stages from St. Moritz via Valposchiavo to Davos, the teams can expect 347 kilometers and almost 12,000 vertical meters in the bike paradise of the Alps. The Swiss Epic is part of the global Epic Series: 15 teams have the chance to start at the Absa Cape Epic in South Africa.

After the announcement that the season opener of the World Ebike Series will take place in Monaco on April 24 and 25, the next rounds will be held in Italy in Castiglione dei Pepoli and Piedmont on June 5 and 6 and June 12 and 13. On July 17 and 18, the series comes to France and after the summer break to Spain with two events: at Sea Otter Europe in Girona on September 24 and 25, then in Castelldefels near Barcelona for the season finale on October 16 and 17. The Swiss round is still on hold and its date will be announced in due course.