Cait Elliott
Irish Elite Enduro Mountain Bike racer. Cycling and other adventures. Based in Zurich, Switzerland. I am also an architect. Follow @CaitElliott_mtbPersonal Sponsors
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Alpine adventure expedition
sometimes rides don’t work out as planned. Full story on Devil in a Dress.
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Tagged Alps, enduro, expedition, explore, freeride, montreaux, mountain bike, Switzerland
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Finale Ligure
Finale Ligure is possibly as close as you can get to paradise for mountain bikers. Good weather almost year round, hundreds of mountain bike trails leading down to the sea, great coffee, icecream and lots of really good fresh Italian … Continue reading
Finale Ligure
In an attempt to escape the never-ending snowy Swiss winter I spent several days last week riding Enduro trails in Finale Ligure. With almost year round sunshine and mountains that rise straight up from a pretty Italian town on the … Continue reading
Mallorca – mountain biking
After 4 days of road biking Mallorca nearly turned me into a fully blown roadie, until I hired a mountain bike. Multiply the road riding by ten and you get an idea of how good the mountain biking is there. The … Continue reading
Italian freeriding
With people accusing me of becoming a roadie I’d better write an overdue report on a few days mountain biking by Lake Como. Rewind to October, warm sunny autumn weather, colourful leaves and dusty trails. When you drop over the … Continue reading
Altitude expedition – St Moritz
With the arrival of Autumn coming rapidly nearer my summer ended in a panic stricken rush to ride everything possible with a string of weekends in the mountains. The latest was a camping expedition with friends in St Moritz, perhaps … Continue reading
Ticket to ride – Lenzerheide
With temperatures hitting 38°C in Zürich last weekend it made sense to head upwards and cool off. The Graubünden area in central Switzerland is well known and extremely well set up for mountain biking with several bike resorts and miles … Continue reading
Alpine freeride – Engelberg
The schizophrenic nature of recent blog posts is a good reflection of my life at the moment but the Alps are making it hard to justify being too annoyed about being injured. Lack of racing has left me searching for … Continue reading
Summer & sanity maintenance
Lack of racing means I need new ways to get an adrenaline fix and feeling of adventure. The solution is to explore as much as possible, ride in interesting places and on challenging trails. I’ve developed hawk eyes for spotting … Continue reading