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It is with great sadness that I confirm Team Bikesoup will be no more as of the end of 2016. We have loved our time together, but new ventures now await us all. I would like to thank Mark Spratt, Lee Williams, Paddy Atkinson, Ruairi Phelan and Anna Cipullo for their efforts on the team to date, and a massive thanks to Bianchi UK for their support this year. Best wishes to all for 2017.

Good to see our rider, Ruairi, and his group of "Weapons" make it into a celebration of the Other Half of racers in the Enduro World Series.

How The Other Half Live – EWS La Thuile - Pinkbike We all love to see the pros and their polished pit areas, but what about all the privateers that fill out the field at many top tier races? We go deep into the mix of caravans and riders at the recent EWS event in La Thuile.

Shout out to fellow Bianchi rider, Michael, the new Scottish Masters enduro champ! 🤘

Six days racing around Switzerland on the Swiss Epic last month was pretty cool! Last year's category leading form may have been missing but you can't fault trails like these. :)

Good luck to our boy, Roo, and the British lads at The Enduro World Series today!

A nice little raw edit here with a few shots of our Elite rider, Ruairi Phelan, shredding the flowy trails at the last Southern Enduro. Interesting to see how different people's line choices are! Bianchi UK

Southern Enduro Rd4 | Milland Made the trip over to Milland to film round 4 of the Southern Enduro series. Great to see such a large turn-out (and by far the largest womens category i've ...

Some good snaps of Anna racing into 2nd place at the last Southern Enduro. Bianchi UK

With a whopping 45 ladies taking part in the last Southern Enduro Series race, we thought we'd celebrate that with free photos for the girls!

Huge respect to Scott Fitzgerald for allowing the ladies early entry oppurtunity and to Adel Tyson-Bloor for her awesome coaching and getting more girls involved in racing!

A nice way to finish a season in the sun :)

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It's end of season, so it's time to sell the team bikes. We're sad to see them go, but we're sure they will make someone else as happy as we have been! We have 2x Large (19") and 2x Medium (17") Bianchi Methanol carbon XT/Fox/Crank Bros Cobalt 650b wheels (all dark green, £1400), and 2x Ethanol FSE 150mm carbon Fox/WTB 650b wheels, both £1600, 1x Large (19" black), and 1x Small (15" Orange). Message us or Anna Cipullo if you're interested!

Congrats to Mark for coming second at the MTB Marathon Champs!

So here's a 60sec recap of what Anna got up to in the Alps last week with Ben Jones MTB Adventures on her Bianchi UK Ethanol:

Ben Jones MTB Adventure - The Mont Blanc Enduro in 60secs A short recap of our antics with Ben Jones on his Mont Blanc Enduro trip. A raw edit to relive the sights and sounds we encountered in August 2016. Full edit...

Ruairi Phelan was on good form at the British Enduro Series on his new stealthy Bianchi UK Ethanol FSE 👌;)

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with Anna Cipullo! Lol. Bianchi UK

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It's coming to the end of the season, so if you're interested in our team bikes, we will be selling two large 19" Methanol XT/Fox bikes and two Medium 17" for £1,500, plus two Ethanol FSE 150mm enduro bikes (one large, one small 15") for £1,600. This is way below cost at nearly 50% off. Please direct message us if you are invested and want more details. Thanks!

Good luck to the Team in the final uk National XC round! Anna will be absent as she's tearing up French mountains on the Ethanol
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Taking 13th at the British National XC Championships was definitely a best for Anna, and all despite minimal sleep, rest and food thanks to a 7hour drive to Scotland and back. That'll do nicely! Thanks Bianchi UK for the green machine :)

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After racing at the EWS recently, big mountain riding has obviously helped Roo creep up the ranks here in the UK seeing him take 9th Elite in the Southern Enduro Round last weekend.
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So, over to the National XC Champs where Anna finished 13th in Senior, and Paddy Atkinson was looking strong in top 10 in the Undre 23s, but unfortunately punctured. Also, fellow Bianchi rider, Jason Bouttell, who surely would have been in contention for the top 5 Senior, snapped a chain on the start line and fell right back. Still, great effort all round on a brutal course. Here's a (slightly blurry!) amateur account of the day from a post-race exhausted Anna.
Thanks to Bikesoup-Bianchi UK & Elmy Cycles Ipswich

Nat Champs 16 A slightly blurry account of the National MTB Cross-Country (XC) Championships 2016.

Hard day at the Enduro World Series for rider, Ruairi Phelan, as he was littered with technical disasters. Our hearts go out to you Ru and hope you still had an awesome time in Italy! :(
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Good luck to Ruairi who's off to Italy for another EWS! The rest of the team will be at the National XC Champs in Scotland.

Hair's Breadth - Enduro World Series, Round 4 - La Thuile by mattwragg - Pinkbike La Thuile was two days of amazing racing for the Enduro World Series competitors and we've loved all the great pics of the action.

If we ever turned to the dark side....

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Sorry we've not posted anything for a while, we're all on holiday 😊🚴

Bikesoup: Anna's Vlog: Tweedlove International 2016 Anna Cipullo joins 600 riders at Tweedlove International for a taste of real Scottish enduro mountain biking; nearly 80km of riding over two days and over 2,...

What Anna Cipullo did the other weekend at TweedLove in Glentress last weekend. Well worth spending a weekend riding there!

Shimano TweedLove International Enduro 2016 TweedLove's big new race aims to give the UK a standalone international level enduro event, and going by what went down at the first edition, it's set…

Roo on the rocks, anyone? ;)

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