Vlad Sabau

Steve McQueen said that “Racing is life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting” and I was waiting to race for more than 10 month now. My last race was the National XCO Championship back in the summer of 2022. The rest is history. I had difficult times and I am fighting to get […]

This race report should have been online earlier, but better later than never. 10 years ago, in May 2012 I had the chance to race my very first Mountainbike World Cup. Back then UCI strongly thought the XCE (Eliminator) was something for the future. Meanwhile things had changed and now the Short Track (XCC) is […]

A good friend told me, right after the race: sometimes you win, sometimes you build your character. Last Saturday I’ve built some character indeed. It all started a couple of weeks ago when I got sick. It wasn’t covid or common flu, but I had to keep away from the bike for almost a week. […]

In 2006, from the idea of a good friend Gabi, I’ve organized the first edition of Cluj Winter Race. Now 16 years apart CWR is one of the oldest races that are still alive in Romania and I am proud and humble to be able to make it. First I would like to thank each […]

This was the first race after a short holiday with my family where I had the time to recover and prepare the rest of the season and the next one, which for me will be very special and important. But everything started on the wrong way. First thing was that the race was announced to […]