Kaikoura teenage Oli Clark fired the first shot for the 2025 season with the overall win in the opening downhill round of the Mountain Bike New Zealand national series in Dunedin.
The national series began on Saturday with cross-country which doubled as the first round of a new UCI Continental Series which attracted several riders from Australia including triple Olympian and two-time world championship medallist, Rebecca Henderson.

The Oceania Cycling Confederation (OCC) has announced that the 2025 Oceania Mountain Bike Championships will be held at Coronet Peak in Queenstown in 2025.
 
Oceania's best mountain bikers will return to New Zealand for the first time in five years, for the championships on 21-23 March 2025. Queenstown has been a regular host of Oceania Championships, including the MTB Championships in 2016 and Road Championships in 2012.
 
The three-days of competition will see Oceania Champions crowned in three categories. For the first time riders will compete in Cross-country Short Track (XCC), as well as Cross Country (XCO) and Downhill (DH).

The tracks in the high alpine mountains in Switzerland provided a daunting test for New Zealand MTB Enduro riders in the latest World Cup stop.
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National champion Charles Murray finished fourth in the elite men to remain in third place overall with one round remaining, to be 111 points behind second placed Slawomir Lukasik (POL).

Thirty-six New Zealand riders have headed to the Haute Savoie of the French Alps for the last round of the UCI MTB World Cup before a break for the Paris Olympic Games.

Seventeen-year-old Christchurch rider, Winni Goldsbury has made it two wins from two in the UCI MTB Enduro World Series in France.

After a debut victory in Leogang, Austria, the super talented tyro added an impressive win in the under-21 Enduro World Cup in Combloux, in the Haute Savoie region in south-east France.

Goldsbury showed her spirit on and off the bike, stopping to check on close friend Xanthe Robb from Nelson who had crashed on stage two. Robb had been fastest on the opening stage, but crashed on the next stage, with Goldsbury briefly stopping to ensure his friend was not seriously injured.
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Goldsbury, who continued on, finishing second fastest on the stage, and after the win has moved to second overall on the World Cup points standing for under-21 women.

The 2025 New Zealand MTB Championships will return to the sport’s spiritual home in Rotorua.
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It will be the seventh time that Rotorua has hosted the event in the last 20 years, with the event hosted by the Rotorua Mountain Bike Club and Cycling New Zealand on 22 - 23 February.

New Zealand’s cross-country mountain bikers will be heading to rarified airs for the fifth round of the UCI MTB Cross-Country World Cup in Switzerland this weekend.