What is Taste Of Mud?
Taste Of Mud is a series of Muni events with overall standings. We (David, Jogi and me) had the idea of having some kind of a European competition in Muni and in March 2010 we finally founded Taste Of Mud.
Our goal is to support, develop and expand Muni, yet keep the fun site of it.
Riders can collect points/muds on all events, that we list on our website by competing. For one discipline on each event riders get additional points when they are within the first 14 riders.
At the end of the year, the rider with the highest score wins the season.
We never had a big introduction, because we first wanted to try things out and see how everything works out. We now know where we need to improve and would also like to get some feedback from you.
Season 2010
Here is a list of all 8 events we added to the 2010 season. Unfortunately we could only announce some events a few days before they happened because we just started this project in March.
October
4. Beerfellemer Buckel-Nunner-Renne Beerfelden DE
Italian Muni Championship Pedavena IT September
QX Stair And Style Stuttgart DE August
Grazer Bike-Marathon Stattegg Graz Stattegg AT
2 Way Race Albstadt DE
Das Dreckige Dutzend Steinach DE July
Salzkammergut Mountainbike Trophy Bad Goisern AT May
Slovenian Unicycle Convention K II Braslovce SI
171 Muni riders competed in this season, 38 of them were female.
The final results are available here: http://taste-of-mud.org/results/
The winners of 2010 will be awarded soon.
Season 2011
Please help us to find Muni events, that will happen in 2011. When you are planning of organizing an event or hear of an event, that is not listed on our page, it would be great if you could notify us about it.
It doesn’t matter if things are uncertain or if there is no fixed date yet.
Maybe we can help you with organizing.
Here is a form where you may suggest new events: http://taste-of-mud.org/events/suggestions/new/
Get involved
Feel free to contact us if you like our project and want to help us out.
There are many things to be done (Translations, writing news, looking for sponsors, advertise events in your country,…)
As we address unicyclist and organizers from different countries with our series, we would like to run our websites in more than just one language. Unfortunately we don’t speak many languages, so we need your help!
If you want to volunteer as a translator, send an email to info(at)taste-of-mud.org or use the contact form and tell us what languages you are fluent in.
In contrast to the Mountain Mayhem a 24h XC race, the Dirty Dozen is a pure* downhill event.
[SIZE=“2”]*plus some fun challenges[/SIZE]
list of events for this season: http://taste-of-mud.org/events/
April 21, 2011 CroMuT, Croatia
April 23, 2011 German Muni & Trial Weekend, Germany
April 30, 2011 III.Slovenian Unicycle Convention, Slovenia
June 10, 2011 5. ELSBET, Liechtenstein
June 17, 2011 Mountain Mayhem, United Kingdom
July 15, 2011 Salzkammergut Mountainbike Trophy, Austria
July 30, 2011 Dreckiges Dutzend II, Germany
Aug. 19, 2011 2nd Innerschwyzer Downhill Weekend, Switzerland
Oct. 1, 2011 Belluniciclo - Italian Muni Championship, Italy
It is basically a relay where always one rider per team is allowed on the course. One course is opened for a few hours and then the course gets changed. In the evening the teams will be riding on a track that is a bit easier and lighted by floodlight.
Last time we also included a small uphill race and a few laps of XC in between.
Here are some impressions from last year: http://taste-of-mud.org/gallery/albums/events/the-dirty-dozen/
This is a great idea! It would be fantastic to organise a few muni specific events around the time of Unicon XVI so that international riders could also participate. I know turtle was planning the elsbet (spelling?) event around then sometime- so a few more would be great too!