Snow Bike Festival Gstaad 2016 – Eliminator Night Race

A new event title, new destination, and new format: following the huge success of the Snow Epic 2015 in Engelberg (SUI), the innovative fatbike event is now be held at Gstaad (SUI) under the name of Snow Bike Festival. From January 22 to 24, 2016, participants are enjoying 3 days of fatbike action with stage races, Eliminator Night Race, Fun Ride and partys as well as a Fat Bike & Mountain Bike EXPO with many popular exhibitors. The Snow Bike Festival is THE happening of the young fatbik...

The third and final stage on Sunday was again greeted with fantastic weather and provided for excellent riding conditions. The race started in the promenade in Gstaad. The route took the riders towards Lake Lauenee with the lake itself being one of the most beautiful places you will ever come across. Johann Tschopp won the stage but it was unfortunately not enough to secure him the overall winner prize as the number of points that Tomas Misser got for the eliminator race leapfrogged him t...

Stage 2 of the Snow Bike Festival started yesterday morning with a bit of an overcast and with a more comfortable reading on the thermometer compared to stage 1. The terrain however was a bit more slippery at stage 2 compared to stafe 1 as some of the ice on the roads began to melt due to the warmer conditions. It was Thomas Misser who won the race in the men category and Hielke Elferink who won in the women category.

The Snow Bike Festival is Europe’s “Winter Festival of Snow Biking”. The third edition of the innovative snow-bike event took place at Gstaad, Switzerland, from January 19 to 22, 2017: 4 days of thrilling snow-bike action. For the first time, the International Cycling Union UCI honored the race with a “Stage Race Class 2” accreditation. The Snow Bike Festival is the first ever UCI race on snow! In the GC Nicola Rohrbach and Katrin Leumann secured victories. Florian Chenaux and Markus Bauer fi...

Stage 1 and 2 of the Snow Bike Festival 2018 – Gstaad (SUI) went down yesterday and today. The athletes are focused for the last Stage tomorrow. Here is the official Clip. Intermediate Results after Stage 2 UCI Women Category (all participants) 1 Leumann, Katrin (SUI) 2 Elferink, Hielke (NDL) 3 Rieder, Nadine (GER) 4 Kupferschmied, Ramona (SUI) 5 Hug, Cornelia (SUI) 6 Süss, Esther (SUI) 7 Baumann, Chrystelle (SUI) UCI Men Category (Top10) 1 Ryf, Joris (SUI) 2 Rohrbach, Nico...

The Snow Bike Festival is honoured to announce that it has once again received Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) accreditation and has been upgraded to a “Stage Race Class 1”, making it one of only 13 stage races worldwide to be classified this highly. This results in an increased prize purse and additional UCI points. The event will return to the beautiful region of Gstaad in the Swiss Canton Berne. Here is the official Trailer.

Starting on Rinderberg at 2’000 meters altitude, with a downhill of more than 1’000 meters in altitude taking place on a ski slope, the riders experienced a special highlight of the Snow Bike Festival right at the beginning. In the picturesque valleys and mountains around Gstaad Nadine Rieder (GER) and Ramon Lauener (SUI) claimed the overall victory of Snow Bike Fesitval’s 5th edition. Canadian Raphael Gagne Took second place, while David List (GER) completed the podium in the men’s competiti...

140 riders out of 16 nations participated in the fifth edition of the Snow Bike Festival. Snow and weather conditions were outstanding, and the atmosphere created by all the participants made the event a huge success. On Friday, riders tackled a 19km afternoon race. What seemed to be an easy ride at first, turned into “one of the toughest 20 k’s I’ve ever ridden” (Brett King, Snow Bike Festival participant), mainly due to the combination of meters in altitude and the snow. Start was at the Pa...