Trans-Savoie ::: The Evolution of All-Mountain MTB Multi-Day Enduro Racing

An all-new point-to-point stage race 100% focused on technical riding ability and epic adventure, TRANS-SAVOIE joins the dots between skill, athletic fitness, mental determination, and strategic riding on some of the best mountain bike trails in the world.

The event will truly level-the-playing-field between the technically brilliant, the athletically fit, the mentally determined, and the mindful strategist....Any competitor in this event will require a healthy serving indeed of all the above qualities in order to place highly.

As the long-time vision of the 10 year owner & co-founder of trailAddiction, the TRANS-SAVOIE is both familiar yet unique, accessible to many yet uncompromising to all.

The existence of this event is possible only by drawing on our collective knowledge of 50+ years of guiding experience in the Savoie region. A continued passion for extracting only the very best routes from within an infinite trail network of unrealised possibilities is a vision that has been many years in the making.

Now, this potential has been unlocked as a ground-breaking MTB event pushing the boundaries of the staged-Enduro-racing to a level not yet available elsewhere in any other event.

By selecting a route that uniquely links together the rapid mechanical uplift potential of the region's extensive ski-lift system, this event stands ahead of all others on statistics alone. This format allows access to a route that quite simply would not be possible by any other means of access.

Adopting a familiar rally-style format, the route consists of several timed downhill-biased stages each day (typically 4 to 5) with a total daily timed descent of an astonishing 4000-5000 vertical metres covering a distance of 35-50Km. The average climb-per-day sits at 800-1000m vertical, of which 90%+ is climbable without dismounting. The terrain is a blend of open and exposed high-alpine and lower-level forrested singletrack...a mixture of tight & technical, fast and flowing, rocky and rooty, and often exposed. This race is most certainly only for those focussed in mind as well as in body. Forget hours of hike -a-bike, sitting in a van, or grinding up fire-roads between stages. The Trans-Savoie is about shredding the most challenging and spectacular singletrack there is.....to the backdrop of Mt Blanc and other epic peaks that dominate the Savoie region.

This fully-supported event will pass through remote and dramatic scenery each day, yet return to some of the Alps finest and better-known biking destinations (Les Arcs, Chamonix) each evening for daily de-briefing. The competitor will also be introduced to some lesser known gold-mines (La Plagne, Beaufort, Les Menuires). Accommodation and catering packages will provide basic but comfortable is a considered balance of racer-energy-fuel and genuine Savoie cuisine…..every competitor will have the opportunity to sample the local hospitality at each stage-location in addition to the delights of the local singletrack.

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