Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once a year, the best downhill mountain bike riders gather high in the French Alps for a race know as Megavalanche. It's a madcap ...

Downhill mountain bike races are nuts. You’re basically on a 40-pound motorcycle with no engine and barreling at 30mph or more over rocks, roots, cliffs, you name it—all while balancing on an insanely ...

The Megavalanche is a treacherous 32km scramble that begins almost 3300m on a glacier at the summit of a mountain in the French Alps. Riders must jostle and battle for position down Alpe d’Huez while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carnage ensues at the Megavalanche mountain bike event in the French Alps, as the world's best riders in the treacherous 32km ...

The air throbs with the sound of helicopters. Loudspeakers blare out indeterminate beats while hundreds of mountain bikers stand quivering with nervous excitement next to bikes so solid they look like ...

World Cup downhill squad Team ChainReactionCycles/Intense have just returned from the annual Megavalanche race in France, and manager Nigel Page has given us his 'competitor's eye's view' on this ...

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We find out which Nukeproof Mega rules the roost at its name-sake competition — the Megavalanche in the French Alps The Megavalanche is one of the few mountain bike races where you need luck, skill, ...

Once a year, the best downhill mountain bike riders gather high in the French Alps for a race know as Megavalanche. It's a madcap 18-mile race down the side of a mountain. En route, riders pass ...