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BMC Racing Cup

The BMC Racing Cup is a multi-round mountain bike racing series with different venues in Switzerland. The discipline in which national and international riders compete is the Olympic Cross-country (XCO).

In 2014 Lenzerheide hosted one of the races of the BMC Racing Cup, and the same track was used again for the third round of the 2015 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.

Calendar

Dates and venues from 2009 to 2015 are:

2009 Season

Round #1 Lugano - Tesserete (April 18).

Round #2 Solothurn (May 9).

Round #3 Gränichen (June 7).

Round #4 Winterthur (June 21).

Round #5 Engelberg - Titlis (June 28).

Round #6 Plaffeien (July 19).

Round #7 Bern (August 9).

Round #8 Muttenz (August 23).

2010 Season

Round #1 Buchs (March 28).

Round #2 Lugano - Tesserete (April 11).

Round #3 Solothurn (May 8).

Round #4 Plaffeien (May 30).

Round #5 Champéry (June 6).

Round #6 Engelberg - Titlis (June 20).

Round #7 Flims (July 3).

Round #8 Muttenz (August 22).

2011 Season

Round #1 Schaan (March 27).

Round #2 Lugano - Tesserete (April 10).

Mountain bike

A mountain bike or mountain bicycle (abbreviated MTB; or ATB, for all-terrain bicycle) is a bicycle created for off-road cycling.

Mountain bikes are typically ridden on mountain trails, fire roads, logging roads, single tracks and other unpaved environments. These types of terrain commonly include rocks, washouts, ruts, loose sand, loose gravel, roots, and steep grades (both inclines and declines). Mountain bikes are built to handle this terrain and the obstacles that are found in it like logs, vertical drop offs, and smaller boulders.

Mountain bike construction differs from a typical bicycle in many ways. The most noticeable differences are the inclusion of suspension on the frame and fork, larger knobby tires, more durable heavy duty wheels, more powerful brakes, and lower gear ratios needed for steep grades with poor traction.

Since the development of the sport in the 1970s many new subtypes of mountain biking have developed, such as cross-country (XC) biking, all-day endurance biking, Freeride-biking, downhill mountain biking, and a variety of track and slalom competitions. Each of these place different demands on the bike requiring different designs for optimal performance. MTB development has included an increase in suspension, typically up to 8" or 203mm, and gearing, up to 30 speeds, to facilitate both climbing and rapid descents. However, advancements in sprocket design has recently led to the "1x (pronounced one by)" trend, simplifying the gearing to one Chainring/Sprocket in the front and multiple sprockets on the rear of the drive train, more commonly, 9, 10 or 11 speed.