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🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 MTB Report – The Real Mountainbike Podcast Once a month, it’s time for the MTB Report – your podcast for everything that moves the mountain biking scene. Real stories, real experiences, real opinions. It’s all about bikes, trails, tech, and the life in between – raw, direct, and authentic. In between, you’ll get short news episodes – quick updates with everything that matters in the MTB world, straight to the point. No show. No filter. No fake. Just passion on two wheels and honest insights from the world of mountain biking. 🎧 think radical – live radical.

  1. Sep 2

    Specialized Invented the Light Enduro eMTB — Then Walked Away. Orbea’s Picking It Up.

    Published by Radical Life Studios / MTB Report The lightweight long-travel eMTB was Specialized’s idea. Now the brand has ceded it to Orbea, Mondraker, and a drone company. The reasons are less flattering than they sound. There’s a bike riders have been asking about in the forums for months and nobody’s building it. A light enduro eMTB: serious travel for the descents, honestly under 20 kilos, a bike that rides like your regular trail bike but with a nudge of help on the climbs. Specialized invented that class. And Specialized walked away from it. Work out why, and you have to look past the glossy launch photos — that’s where it gets uncomfortable. This is your MTB Report.

  2. Aug 30

    Baby Blue on Pink: The Kit That Tells Tahnée Seagrave’s Whole Story

    Published by Radical Life Studios / MTB Report Fox just dropped Tahnée Seagrave’s “TS57” signature collection. Look closer and it’s more than riding kit, it’s an autobiography in fabric: her signature pink, a baby-blue nod to a childhood hero, and the tiny Alpine village that made her. Here’s the story behind the colors, London, the mountains, rainbow stripes, and one seriously long road back. A kit is rarely just a kit You can write a signature collection off as clever marketing. Or you can look closer and read it like a diary. “TS57” stands for Tahnée Seagrave, one of the defining riders in downhill, the discipline where you race steep mountain tracks flat-out against the clock. The set, jersey, pants, goggle and more, comes in her unmistakable pink, laced with baby-blue accents. Both colors carry a story. And it starts not on a podium, but with a move. This is your MTB Report: Baby Blue on Pink: The Kit That Tells Tahnée Seagrave’s Whole Story – MTB Report | USA

  3. Aug 25

    The Enduro World Cup Is Dead and Whistler Just Became the Center of the Universe

    Published by Radical Life Studios / MTB Report The UCI and Warner Bros. Discovery pulled the plug: there’s no Enduro World Cup after 2026. Sounds like a bad day for the sport. But the riders have a different word for it and the biggest name in the game moved fast to fill the gap. On August 19, it was over. The UCI, cycling’s world governing body, and its media partner Warner Bros. Discovery announced that the 2026 season is the last for the Enduro World Cup in its current form. The globe-trotting series with a season-long overall title done after this year. Before anyone panics: enduro isn’t going anywhere. But what’s ending is worth breaking down, especially if you don’t spend every weekend glued to a race stream. https://radicallifestudios.de⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mtb-report.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎧 think radical – live radical.

  4. Aug 11

    Accell’s Rescue Collapses: What Now for Raleigh, Haibike, Ghost and Lapierre

    Published by Radical Life Studios / MTB Report A few weeks ago we reported that the Accell Group had found a buyer and the rescue looked done. It isn’t. The deal has collapsed, the group is in insolvency, and brands that looked safe — Raleigh, Haibike, Ghost, Winora, Lapierre — are suddenly anything but. Here’s what happened, and what it means if one of them is sitting in your shed. Remember the rescue? It’s off The recap is short. On 8 July 2026, Germany’s competition regulator cleared the takeover of the Accell Group by Dutech, a Singapore-listed group headed by businessman Johnny Liu. Austria and Poland had signed off too. Everything pointed to an orderly fresh start — we said as much at the time. All that was left was to close the deal. The closing never came. Neither Accell nor Dutech has publicly explained why the takeover fell apart at the last moment. Instead of new ownership, 5 August 2026 brought an insolvency filing. If you read our July piece, the story has flipped on its head. https://radicallifestudios.de⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mtb-report.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎧 think radical – live radical.

  5. Jul 27

    The Million-Dollar Trail Town – and the Ban That Nearly Killed the Model

    PUBLISHED BY RADICAL LIFE STUDIOS / MTB REPORTA 5,000-person town in Vermont pulls in around a million dollars a year from mountain bike tourism. A fluke? Hardly. From Arkansas to the Alps, small towns are turning a few miles of singletrack into serious economic engines – and the e-bike has grown the pie faster than anyone expected. Then Germany’s most populous state tried to legislate those trails out of existence – and, after a national backlash, backed down. A lesson in why building beats banning.By Robert Langerhttps://radicallifestudios.de⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mtb-report.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🎧 think radical – live radical.

  6. Jul 6

    The Derailleur Is Dying. The Wattage War Isn’t. Avinox MG vs. Gobao – Inside the Gearbox Fight

    Published by Radical Life Studios / MTB ReportAt Eurobike 2026, two manufacturers just called time on the classic derailleur drivetrain for eMTBs: Avinox unveiled its MG Concept, a motor with a built-in stepless gearbox, while newcomer Gobao rolled out a system that already looks surprisingly production-ready. For everyday riders, this is genuinely great news. If only it weren’t wrapped in another round of the wattage war.https://radicallifestudios.de⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mtb-report.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🎧 think radical – live radical.

  7. Jun 22

    Blindsee Trail: Why the “Closure” Isn’t One — and Where the Fix Already Exists

    If the Blindsee Trail is on your Alps bucket list, you’ve probably seen the headlines: closed to bikes from 2027. Before you cross it off — or rush to tick it off this summer in a panic — read this. We went to the source, the mayor of Biberwier, and the real story is very different from the obituary doing the rounds. The Blindsee isn’t dead. It’s on probation. Here’s what’s actually going on, and why there’s genuine reason for hope. First, the trail itself, for anyone who hasn’t ridden it. The Blindsee sits in the Tiroler Zugspitz Arena, the cluster of villages — Lermoos, Ehrwald, Biberwier — tucked under the Zugspitze on the German-Austrian border, an easy hop from Garmisch and well within reach for a long weekend from the UK. Open since 2014, it runs roughly five miles with around 2,300 feet of descent, a natural, hand-built singletrack that spits you out at the Blindsee, a turquoise lake so clear it looks Photoshopped. You ride up via the Bergbahnen Langes lifts out of the Lermoos bike park, then drop out of the park and down to the water. It’s a proper Alpine classic, and it’s exactly the kind of trail people plan a trip around. So when word spread that it was being shut, the reaction across the international forums wasn’t so much anger as bafflement: why couldn’t they find a way to make it work? https://radicallifestudios.de⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mtb-report.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🎧 think radical – live radical.

  8. Jun 8

    A World-Class Alpine Trail Is Being Killed Off – And the Reason Should Worry Every Rider

    Published by Radical Life Studios / MTB Report One of the most loved natural trails in the Alps is heading for the chop. The council of Biberwier, in Austria’s Tyrol, wants to close the legendary Blindsee Trail to mountain bikers from 2027. You can still ride it through the 2026 season – after that, it’s set to be gone. It looks like a small-town Tyrolean spat. It’s actually a case study in why trail access in Austria is so dangerously fragile in the first place. The Blindsee Trail has been one of the region’s headline acts since 2014: roughly 8.2 km (about 5 miles) of descent, around 710 m (2,300 ft) of vertical drop, a proper natural-trail feel, and the turquoise Blindsee lake waiting at the bottom as your reward. That’s the trail now on the chopping block. According to regional newspaper reporting, Biberwier’s council has voted for the closure – unanimously, as it stands. The trail stays open for the current 2026 season, then shuts to bikes from 2027. As yet there’s no detailed official rationale published by the municipality, so the picture rests for now on press reports and early comments from the town hall.https://radicallifestudios.de⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mtb-report.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🎧 think radical – live radical.

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🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 MTB Report – The Real Mountainbike Podcast Once a month, it’s time for the MTB Report – your podcast for everything that moves the mountain biking scene. Real stories, real experiences, real opinions. It’s all about bikes, trails, tech, and the life in between – raw, direct, and authentic. In between, you’ll get short news episodes – quick updates with everything that matters in the MTB world, straight to the point. No show. No filter. No fake. Just passion on two wheels and honest insights from the world of mountain biking. 🎧 think radical – live radical.

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  • Creator
    RadicalLifeStudios
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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    80
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