Nuremberg’s Red Bull District Ride, last run in 2006, is set to return later this year with 9/10 September the dates to mark in your diary if you want to avoid missing this unique event.

A freeride mountain bike event held in the city of Nuremberg, it brought the sport to the masses making it easy to get a big crowd. Over 40,000 spectators are expected to attend when the event returns, with the course, a snaking obstacle-laden affair through the entire city centre, offer the world’s best freeriders plenty of opportunities to impress.

Five years is a long time in the young sport of mountain biking, and so the course has been brought bang up to date by Tarek Rasouli, who says: “The level of tricks has risen dramatically and is higher than ever before – meaning that we can expect some unprecedented biking action. Furthermore, since the Red Bull District Ride also represents the final event of the FMB World Tour, the riders will show their best performance to score maximum points for the world ranking.”

Starting at the venerable emperor’s castle “Kaiserburg” , in 2011 riders will once again drop into the course over a gigantic castle wall drop that can boast to be the only one of its kind in the world. After that, the athletes cover roughly one kilometre in about 90 seconds, until they arrive at the finish on the market square.

On their way, they’ll not only have crossed Nuremberg’s city center but will also have traversed the different variations of the mountain bike freeride sport – with the crowd watching right beside the course.

“The participants and all young spectators of every age will definitely enjoy themselves this year. Personally, I’m looking forward to a contest with lots of excitement and pure biking action”, says Nuremberg’s mayor Dr. Ulrich Maly.