Heavy 24 MTB

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Heavy24 MTB
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Host country GermanyGermany Germany
overall length 8.75 km (per lap)
Starting field 1261 in 330 (as of 2016) teams
   

The Heavy24 is an annually since 2006 in June in Chemnitz district of Rabenstein take-find 24-hour - Mountain -race. With 1,174 starters and around 18,000 visitors in 2015, it was the largest mountain bike competition in all of Eastern Germany .

The approximately 8.5 km long circuit in the Rabensteiner Forest leads around the Oberrabenstein reservoir and almost to the Totenstein summit . There is a difference in altitude of approx. 121 meters per lap to overcome. The circuit consists of forest roads (66.5%), single trails (23.5%), asphalt (8%) and field (2%). The route has been subject to various changes since the first race in 2006, so the most dangerous sections have now been removed from the circuit and replaced by less critical sections of the route. In 2016 the route was changed again and then extended to 9.2 km to create more space for the increasing number of participants.

Cycling around the clock: The participants start as individual starters (male / female), in teams of 2 and 4 and in teams of 8 (both male and female). The team drivers take turns in a corresponding transition zone in the start and finish area. A special feature of the race is that the starting field consists of professional drivers and hobby mountain bikers. The drivers start in an individual competition or in teams of two, four or eight drivers. In 2015 there were 1,174 drivers in 306 teams at the start and a total of 11,816 laps with 103,390 km - more than 3 circumnavigations of the world - were driven and night turned into day. In this way, the participants also cycled up an altitude of 1,429.7 km almost "incidentally". In addition to the hobby riders, the bicycle manufacturers Haibike , Diamant , Kuota , Focus and Stein Bikes are regularly represented with factory teams, and many regional medium-sized companies as well as a large part of the Chemnitz bicycle dealers start with company teams.

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