MTB GEEK QUIZ 17

Welcome to MTB Geek Quiz #17 – the widest-ranging one we've done all year (try quizzes #16 and #15 to find out for yourself).

This week we have another set of 11 questions and 302.5 total available points.

Try your hand, tot up your score and challenge your friends. Have you been keeping up to date on recent events and tech? You'll need to be sharp to complete this one.

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

Have fun!

Welcome to MTB Geek Quiz #17 – the widest-ranging one we've done all year (try quizzes #16 and #15 to find out for yourself).

This week we have another set of 11 questions and 302.5 total available points.

Try your hand, tot up your score and challenge your friends. Have you been keeping up to date on recent events and tech? You'll need to be sharp to complete this one.

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

Have fun!

When Kiwi enduro racer and pedal-power enthusiast Matthew Fairbrother rode his enduro bike over 1,000km between the Crans-Montana, Switzerland, and Loudenvielle, France, Enduro World Series races in 2022, how many days did it take him to cover that distance?

Counting semi-finals and finals only, there were 75 sectors (individually timed sections of the track) during the 2023 UCI DH World Cup season, with five sectors per track. According to coach and data geek Chris Kilmurray (Point1), Jackson Goldstone was fastest in the most sectors in the elite men’s racing. How many sectors did he go fastest in?

According to his Downtime Podcast interview, how does flat pedal-riding baggy short-wearing adventure endurance specialist Ben Hildred fuel his epic rides?

Homemade trail mix

Salt and vinegar crisps

Mars bars

Cold lasagna

In Finale Ligure, Italy, where we spend a lot of our time, there is one of the world’s biggest and arguably best trail networks. Trails are built and kept alive by local teams and, in recent years, the work has been officialised and supported by revenue from the area’s For You Card (FU Card). According to the FOR Trail Building Bulletin, how much revenue was generated by FU Cards in 2023?

€25

€95,000

€25,000

€250,000

The first-ever Snowbike (SNO) World Championships took place in Châtel, France, on 10-11 Feb 2024, with World Champion titles up for grabs in super-g on Saturday and dual slalom on Sunday. What was the maximum permitted protruding length of metal spikes in riders’ tyres?

2mm

6mm

8mm

1cm

At our pop-up store during the Les Gets World Cup event in 2023, we had a big A2 print of possibly the most iconic downhill photo ever, an image the voice of downhill himself, Rob Warner, called ‘the best mountain biking photo of all time’ (he’d just called a shot of John Tomac the same thing but changed his mind when he turned and saw this stunner). The photo shows Shaun Palmer screaming down the Château-d’Oex, Switzerland, World Championships course in 1997, head-on, full concentration, baggy kit shoving one to his Lycra-clad competitors, and red skate shoes on beefy beartrap pedals. But the question is: who took the photo?

Malcolm Fearon

Paul Bliss

Mike Rose

Kathy Sessler

Pivot Cycles recently launched an updated version of their Switchblade bike, including a limited-edition option in fluorescent pink. What classic mountain bike, designed in 1989 by Pivot’s future founder Chris Cocalis, was the limited-edition Switchblade’s bright paintjob homage to?

Mountain Cycle San Andreas

Sun Eagle Bicycle Works Talon Elite

Marin Team Titanium

Fat Chance Yo Eddy

The smallest elite women’s winning margin at a 2023 UCI DH World Cup was 0.34 seconds, with France's Marine Cabirou beating Germany's Nina Hoffmann for the win. What was the venue?

Snowshoe, USA

Les Gets, France

Loudenvielle, France

Val di Sole, Italy

This is still about bicycles and dirt mud action. (Who’s to say what is and isn’t mountain biking anyway?) What is the maximum permitted tyre width at a UCI sanctioned cyclocross race?

Whatever you can fit in the frame

37mm

35mm

33mm

Nino Schurter made history in 2023, setting the record for the most elite men’s UCI Cross-country (XCO) World Cup wins when he won in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Later in the year he won again, taking it to 35 total wins. Where did he score that 35^th World Cup win?

Leogang, Austria

Val di Sole, Italy

Pal Arinsal, Andorra

Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada