Engineering excellence meets human recklessness 鈥� when the best mountain bikers in the world descend on Scotland鈥檚 hills
22 August 2018
Each year, the world’s best mountain-bikers flock to Fort William to participate in the — one of the tour’s longest and toughest courses.
There are two disciplines of competition: the fast, gladiatorial 4X and the brutal, four-minute freefall of downhill.
Only the very bravest and best-supported have any real chance of success.
Cheering crowds return to Fort William for the 2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
The best riders hurl themselves down the one of the world's toughest courses.
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