Rain, mud and lots of enthusiasm: on Saturday, October 25, 2025, the Valiant Grand Prix 2025 season finale took place at the Swiss Bike Park Oberried. Despite the inclement weather, 170 children and young people from all over Switzerland - and from a total of four nations - delivered great sport and turned the day into a real mountain bike festival.

The three-day Wines2Whales mountain bike stage race in South Africa once again attracted some top-class names such as Matt Beers, Lukas Baum and marathon aces Hans Becking and Wout Alleman to the start line this year. However, the victory was snatched by someone else. The Swiss-South African pairing of Gravel specialist Felix Stehli and former Wines winner Marc Pritzen relegated Becking/Alleman and Terlouw/Foster to the places of honor thanks to two stage wins.

Spring begins for the international mountain bike scene in Calpe-Benissa on the Costa Blanca, Spain, where riders will ride the first stage of the HERO UCI Marathon World Cup after the winter break in a landscape characterized by great Mediterranean beauty. The HERO Costa Blanca, with its two courses of 82 and 50 kilometers, is the new and first race of the second edition of the UCI Marathon World Cup held under HERO auspices.