After a watershed 2025 season on the UCI Mountain Bike World Series standings, kiwi riders will take their first pedal strokes of the new season with renewed confidence and new challenges.

New Zealand mountain bikers will be looking to build on recent unprecedented success when the UCI Mtb World Series moves to the famed venue of Val di Sole in the mountains among the Dolomites in Trentino, northern Italy.

Unlucky for some, but not for New Zealand riders, with a record 13 gravity flyers qualifying for finals on the first day of the triple-header UCI Woosh MTB World Series in Leogang, Austria.

Kiwi mountain bikers converge on Austria’s iconic Leogang Bikepark for a UCI World Series triple-header comprising downhill, cross-country, and enduro competition this weekend

Sammie Maxwell and Matthew Wilson turned up the heat to dominate the second round of the MTBNZ National Series in Taupo.

Kaikoura's Oli Clark takes the overall win in the opening downhill round of the Mountain Bike NZ national series.