The Cuyuna race is part of the Minnesota Mountain Bike Series — a multi-race summer series that runs at trail systems around the state from June through September. The Cuyuna stop is held at the Cuyuna Lakes trail system near Ironton, which is one of the best trail networks in the upper Midwest. The MN … Read more
The Tioga race is part of the Minnesota Mountain Bike Series and is held at the Tioga trail system near Barnum, Minnesota — a DNR trail network with a good mix of climbs and flow sections that makes for an interesting XC race course. It’s a smaller venue than Cuyuna but a solid race, and … Read more
The Mt Kato Mountain Bike Race is a bit of a love & hate thing… Each lap you climb the full front side and the full back side of the ski hill, along with mid lap going about half way down and back to the top again. It’s a hard course and the reward sections are short, but there is something about it that has us coming back most years. If you like climbing, this is your XC race.
The Detroit Lakes Mountain Bike Race is a bit of a drive for us, but we enjoy the venue and the Detroit Mountain trails. I wish more people would make the trip up for it as it’s a great venue for the race
The Woolly Bike Club Mountain Bike Race is our most local race with the trails only being about 10 minutes from our shop and about 30 minutes from home. We know the trails well and although we’re obviously a bit biased, we do think it is one of the better run and organized races in the series for a variety of reasons, such as it’s always well marked, has volunteers and sometimes multiple at any crossing or intersections, the infield (start/finish) area is well setup and they always have an ample amount of porta-jons.
We really like the River Falls Whitetail Ridge Mountain Bike Race. The race has a nice and well rounded course with entertaining singletrack, some challenging climbs and a little bit of tech. The venue is also fantastic for a bike race.
We really like the Redhead mountain bike race course. The race loop has some tough climbs, fast descents and some techy singletrack. The race venue itself is also really good with plenty of parking and a nice infield area.
The Gamehaven Mountain Bike Race is part of the Minnesota Mountain Bike Series and is held at the Scout Camp on the Gamehaven Reservoir trail in Rochester, MN. It’s a nice course for racing with opportunity to pass and a variety of singletrack.