2008-05-10

After some cloudy and rainy days in Huangshan, the MTB Festival blew away all the clouds and made way for the sun and a blue sky.

Almost 500 people showed up in the start, among others the Chinese bike star Li Fuyu, who was number one on 50K, finishing 46 seconds before last year’s winner Piers Touzel from Australia. However, since Li is a professional biker, he had to hand over his prize money to Piers, who also did an excellent race. Li was specially invited by the organizer and main sponsor TREK, and was very satisfied with both the race and the tracks.

Zheng Lufang was the first lady to finish the 50K race, which she did with glory by beating her main competitor Lv Taotao with almost as much as six minutes.

The arena was crowded of people, a mix of locals and bikers from more than 20 countries that were mingling with friends and other bike fans, having food and visiting our sponsors in their tents.

Tonight there is a big banquet waiting, which will be followed by a local food festival with bonfire, live band, and party.