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20 years of promoting young talentThe Ghost BIKE Cross Country Youth Camp live blog

Jan Timmermann

 · 18.10.2023

20 years of promoting young talent: The Ghost BIKE Cross Country Youth Camp live blogPhoto: Jan Timmermann
The Ghost BIKE Cross Country Youth Camp is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and 60 young bikers are joining in the celebrations.
For 20 years, BIKE and Ghost have been supporting young cross-country riders in Germany with a unique youth camp. The participants have included successful riders from the BIKE Junior Team and numerous professional mountain bikers. Just in time for the anniversary, we are reporting live from the Ghost BIKE Cross Country Youth Camp in Sank Englmar for the first time.

When the BIKE Youth Camp took place for the first time in 2003, nobody could have imagined the impact the event would have on the promotion of young MTB talent in Germany for 20 years. For four days, young cross-country mountain bikers can learn from the best of the best, as Ghost not only travels with the original World Cup truck, but also has world-class professionals and coaches with them. Training, autographs, joint rides with the sport's idols - all this is also available in the 20th year of the Ghost Bike Cross Country Youth Camp. The anniversary is also a premiere: for the first time, the BIKE editorial team will be reporting directly from the event in a live blog.

The liveblog of the 20th Ghost BIKE Cross Country Youth Camp in Sankt Englmar

At the Ghost BIKE Cross Country Youth Camp, participants receive the same support as the World Cup pros.Photo: BIKEAt the Ghost BIKE Cross Country Youth Camp, participants receive the same support as the World Cup pros.

Ghost BIKE Cross Country Youth Camp success story

The Ghost BIKE Cross Country Youth Camp is regarded as an important stepping stone on the way to becoming a professional racer. Big names such as Georg Egger, Leonie Daubermann and Simon Schneller have used the camp and the network behind it to kick-start their own careers as athletes. No wonder, as top athletes such as Anne Terpstra and riding technique aces such as Tomas Slavik accompany the camp participants. Riders from the BIKE Junior Team, such as German champion Dennis Krimmel and European champion Elias Hückmann, also regularly mingle with the young racers in Sankt Englmar and provide valuable tips.

Sankt Engelmar 2006: 17 years ago, budding cross-country pros rode the same trails at the BIKE Youth Camp as they do today.Photo: Manuel SchlueterSankt Engelmar 2006: 17 years ago, budding cross-country pros rode the same trails at the BIKE Youth Camp as they do today.

The star line-up from Ghost Bikes is rounded off by other key figures on the road to young success: from the team manager to the personal riding technique coach of the top athletes to the World Cup mechanic, there are all kinds of opportunities to ask burning questions and get advice from experts during the Ghost BIKE Cross Country Youth Camp. BIKE editor Jan Timmermann will be on site to show the children and young people how a BIKE magazine is produced. In various workshops, participants will be able to help fill the live blog themselves.

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16 years later, still in Sankt Englmar in the Bavarian Forest: The XC youth at the Ghost BIKE Youth Camp 2022.Photo: Georg Grieshaber16 years later, still in Sankt Englmar in the Bavarian Forest: The XC youth at the Ghost BIKE Youth Camp 2022.

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Jan Timmermann

Jan Timmermann is a true mountain biker. His interests cover almost everything from marathon to trail bikes and from street to gravel. True to the motto "life is too short for boring bikes", the technical editor's heart lies above all in bikes with charisma. Jan also runs the fitness centre for our cycling brands.

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