GEEK QUIZ 16 (SECOND OF 2024)

MTB GEEK QUIZ #16

FAILURE IS NOT TRYING

11 questions, 330 total points

Good luck

Welcome to MTB Geek Quiz #16 – the latest in a string of fiendishly fiddly factual (mostly) brain benders for certified mountain bike geeks only.

This week we have another set of 11 questions and 330 total available points.

Try your hand (good luck with the BCD question), tot up your score and challenge your friends.

Then, kindly share your score on social media and help us get more people trying (failing?) the quiz.

Enjoy!

Title image: Gloria Scarsi, Val di Fassa 2023, by Seb Schieck

Welcome to MTB Geek Quiz #16 – the latest in a string of fiendishly fiddly factual (mostly) brain benders for certified mountain bike geeks only.

This week we have another set of 11 questions and 330 total available points.

Try your hand (good luck with the BCD question), tot up your score and challenge your friends.

Then, kindly share your score on social media and help us get more people trying (failing?) the quiz.

Enjoy!

Title image: Gloria Scarsi, Val di Fassa 2023, by Seb Schieck

Aaron Gwin, the eight-time US DH national champion and five-time DH World Cup series winner, will be riding for his own team in 2024, Gwin Racing. Which of these riders is joining him on the downhill team?

Seth Sherlock

Phoebe Gale

Jess Blewitt

Richie Rude

Brook Macdonald recently announced his deal with Forbidden Bikes for the 2024 season. But who is his goggle sponsor?

Oakley

Viris

Fox Racing

Pit Viper

According to the UCI Teams List, which teams is Italian multi-discipline talent Gloria Scarsi riding for in 2024?

Canyon Collective Factory Enduro Team

Canyon Cllctv Factory Team

Canyon Cllctv XCO

Canyon Cllctv Pirelli

If the distance between two adjacent bolts on a four-bolt chainring is 45.3mm, what is the chainring’s BCD?

46mm

6.4mm

64mm

4.6m

According to the recently published video by Revolution bike park, what is the energy useage for a single person’s Landrover uplift for the day equivalent to?

Eating 37 Mars Bars, 6 burgers and 29 Werther's Originals

A 4hr e-bike ride on turbo mode

An 8hr long haul flight (one person's share)

A 1hr short haul flight (one person's share)

Which of these Misspent Summers publications has 162 pages?

Hurly Burly 2023

Tea & Biscuits 2 Custard Cream zine

Downtime EP2

Spent 2

The ‘D’ in the Troy Lee Designs downhill line of helmets (e.g. ‘D3’, ‘D4’) stands for:

Daytona

Domesaver

Downhill

Daredevil

According to the popular blog, bentbikesandbanjos.blogspot.com, the darkest day in the history of recumbent bicycles was when they were banned from all UCI sanctioned racing (this explains why there have never been any recumbents entered into DH or EDR World Cup races). What year were they banned?

2019

1934

1996

1990

Which is these is not made by UK frame builder BTR Fabrications:

Loamer

Pinner

Roamer

Belter

Which of these companies is an official partner of British Cycling, the UK’s cycling governing body, and appeared on the national jerseys at the 2023 Cycling World Championships:

Greenpeace

Sustrans

Trash Free Trails

Shell UK

The first-ever snowbike World Championships is scheduled to take place in Châtel, France, on 10-11 February 2024. French legend Eric Barone, the man who survived a snapped headtube while riding at 170km/h down a volcano, isn’t organising the race. But what speed did Barone hit in his Mountain Bike World Speed Record (on snow) in 2017?

227.720km/h

178.643km/h

107.978km/h

156.243km/h