urge events : 6 videos

Hans Rey landed on the ground of Cape Verde with baggage rather light ... He simply does not have a bike :/ Its bag was lost at the airport of Paris where he was calling. Hope everything will be fine for him in the coming days!

Nicolas Vouilloz gives us his first impressions of the atmosphere of this first Urge Cabo Verde. And it is also his birthday today!

Program : meeting at the Pedro Gomez School with the children and the managers of two of the four associations Urge Cabo Verde will support. Then we board bikes and people on a boat to the… Fogo volcano, island where the first race will take place on Thursday...

Episode 3 sees Rowan discuses how he goes about working his day-to-day job as well as fitting in the necessary training required to take part at the Urge Cabo Verde event. He hits up a frozen local trail at nighttime in his naturally fast and smooth manner followed by a trip to the polishers to get his new Orange Alpine frame looking extra bling. Its then over to Mojo Suspension to get the bike built and dialed in ready for some volcanic action! Urge Cabo Verde will be taking place between...

With two weeks to go, Rowan has been grabbing what time he can around the trail building day job to ride his Orange five and prepare for the event. Urge Cabo Verde will be taking place between the 7th and 14th of February and will culminate in a race event descending 3000m from the top of a Volcano to the sea. For more information see: urgecaboverde.com and check back for a mojo review video soon after the event.

15 chosen riders are heading to the Cape Verde islands in the middle of the Atlantic and this year Fabien has invited superstar trail builder, ex-Mojo rider/staffer and all round Welsh legend Rowan Sorrell to take part, ‘Safe Bra!’ He’s sponsored by Mojo and Orange for the event and will be training hard (won’t you Ro’?!) so that the multiple ascents and descents across several islands (and including a descent down an active Volcano) don’t leave him lagging behind in this great adventure. Mo...