Gamehaven | Mountain Bike Race

The Gamehaven Mountain Bike Race is part of the Minnesota Mountain Bike Series and is held at the Gamehaven trail system near Rochester, Minnesota. It’s a nice course for racing with opportunity to pass and a variety of singletrack. Rochester is also a good drive from the Twin Cities so the field is usually solid. mnmtb.org

At a glance

Location	Rochester, MN
Discipline	Mountain bike
Series	Minnesota Mountain Bike Series
Official site	mnmtb.org

Results and Race Recaps

2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2021

2025

Results

Lynn (Women’s Marathon)	5th of 9 – 4:03:43
Reid (Marathon)	16th of 35 – 4:25:00
Kyle (Marathon)	14th of 35 – 4:22:08

2024

Results

Reid (Comp)	39th Overall, 16th in age
Kyle (Elite)	16th Overall, 2nd in age
Lynn (Comp)	14th Overall, 4th in age
Steve (Elite)	12th Overall, 4th in age

Bike setups

Reid	Bike: Cervelo ZHT-5 · Wheels: DT Swiss XRC 1200 · Tires: Maxxis Recon (f) / Icon (r) · Drivetrain: SRAM AXS Eagle
Kyle	Bike: Niner RKT 9 RDO · Wheels: Bontrager XXX Rims on DT 240 Hubs · Tires: Vittoria Barzo (f) / Mezcal (r) · Drivetrain: SRAM AXS Eagle
Lynn	Bike: Niner RKT 9 RDO · Wheels: Reserve 28 XC on DT 350 Hubs · Tires: Vittoria Barzo (f) / Mezcal (r) · Drivetrain: SRAM Eagle
Steve	Bike: Cervelo ZFS-5 120 · Wheels: DT Swiss XMC 1200 · Tires: Schwalbe Racing Ray (f) / Racing Ralph (r) · Drivetrain: SRAM AXS Transmission

This was Lynn and Reid’s first race in Comp after racing Sport last year and Kyle’s first race in Elite after racing Comp last year. This was also mine (Steve) and Kyle’s first time racing mountain bikes in the same race together. It was awesome and was the start of a really fun year of racing. I held him off at this race, but he started beating me later in the season. Kyle got a stick caught in his derailleur early in the first lap and had to pull off to clear it and then he was chasing back up the rest of the race.

Strava

2023

Results

Reid (Sport)	3rd Overall, 1st in age
Kyle (Comp)	13th Overall, ?nd in age
Lynn (Comp)	4th Overall, 1st in age
Steve (Elite)	16th Overall, 7th in age

Lynn and I (Steve) both had clean races, but both boys had minor crashes in the first lap and had to work their way back up the field.

Strava

2021

Results

Reid (Kid’s Comp)	4th Overall, 1st in age
Kyle (Kid’s Comp)	1st Overall, 1st in age
Lynn (Comp)	DNF

The 2021 Gamehaven race was a mud fest. It rained during the Kid’s Comp race and the trail was a mess by the time the last kids came off the course. They went ahead and sent out the Citizens racers and the bikes were an absolute mess. We were waiting for Lynn to come by on her lap to tell her to pull out of the race… She ended up walking her bike out mid course because the mud was packing in around her tire and frame and stopping the tire from moving and never even made it thru the first lap. I was scheduled for the Elite race in the afternoon, but pulled out when I saw what the bikes were looking like coming off the course. BTW, that was Lynn’s first ever mountain bike race…