Pejo Therme/Italy. In a time of one hour and thirty six minutes, Marco Aurelio Fontana rode to a start-to-finish victory on a wet course to take his third consecutive Italian XCO title in Pejo Therme this weekend. It was Fontana’s eighth Italian title, spread over different disciplines and categories.

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Windham, New York was the second stop of the North American leg of the 2011 UCI MTB World Cup Series this last weekend. CFR Riders Marco Aurelio Fontana, Manuel Fumic, Martin Gujan and Jeremiah Bishop gave their best in the fight for the podium, but missed their goal by just a few seconds

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This weekend the UCI MTB World Cup stopped in Mont Sainte Anne, Canada for the fourth round of the series. After two rainy practice days, the Canadian weather showed its best side with blue skies and hot temperatures. CFR Riders Manuel Fumic, Marco Fontana and Martin Gujan started strong in the race and placed themselves early in the top group.

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Cannondale's Alex Grant recently completed the seven stage mountain bike race. While helping his teammate Jeremiah Bishop take the overall win, Alex also took home great results such as a third place on the queen stage, and a sixth overall. He also managed to capture tons of great helmet camera footage.

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The final stage of the Trans-Sylvania Epic concreted the GC with a festive last rideunder tepid skies on picture perfect singletrack.

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The Queen stage of the Trans-Sylvania Epic came down to a battle between the top three GC contenders. As predicted Jason Sager (Team Jamis) attacked on the biggest fireroad climb of the day, which came early in a bid to distance himself from Kona’s Kris Sneddon.

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Stage 5 of the Trans-Sylvania Epic offers a unique formula to the stage racing format. Originally conceived as a Super-D contest, it morphed into what's referred to as a "Mini-XC Day." Riders roll socially on a 28-mile loop that has four special sections. Classes line up and race sectors of trail that average about 13 to 14 minutes. Each one begins with a short climb and runs into ultra technical flat and downhill singletrack and times are tallied and totaled with the lowest combined time for all four winning the day.

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Raystown Lake and it’s perfectly groomed, undulating, rollercoaster main loop was the site of stage four of the Trans-Sylvania Epic. The day's stage consisted of two 20-mile laps around the lake. Although Jeremiah would later divulge that he was hoping for a "sprinter's stage" which would allow him to sit in the main group relatively stress-free the stage would prove otherwise.

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Another hot, humid day greeted riders at the Trans-Sylvania Epic during stage 3. Both the men’s and women’s class got off to an exciting start but the biggest change happened in the singlespeed category where Team Dicky’s Rich Dillen had a heroic day, upsetting leader Rich Straub (Freeze Thaw/NoTubes/BikeFlights) by five minutes to take both the day’s contest and the overall leaders jersey by a mere 35 seconds. 

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With humid temperatures hitting the 96-degree mark the Coopers Gap Stage of the Trans-Sylvania Epic melted apart in a long train of cooked riders. A stage that, according to last year's overall winner Jeremiah Bishop was "Juicy and rooty. It was awesome in this old retro way," he said post finish. "Like in the old days when you went way back in the jungle for some swampy ride to do some stuff no one else does. Today was a backcountry ride."

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