Ninety – the 2025 cross-country mountain bike yearbook

Reporting, photography and analysis from the 2025 UCI XCO and XCC MTB World Cup series and World Championships

Add a 2026 MTB calendar to your order for half-price when combined with a 2025 yearbook purchase (discount added automatically at checkout)

Ninety is the essential cross-country mountain bike World Cup and World Championships book and perfect for any mountain bike fan.

Ninety is packed with the best photography, reporting and analysis from the entire 2025 UCI XCO (XC Olympic) and XCC (XC Short Track) MTB season.

This brand-new addition to the Misspent Summers bookshelf covers 10 rounds of 2025 UCI XC World Cup racing and the standalone World Championships event.

It features reporting and analysis by the sport’s best writers, hundreds of stunning images by mountain biking’s top photographers and unrivalled design and production.

Ninety is produced in the UK and shipped worldwide.

Ninety

• Featuring every 2025 XCO and XCC World Cups and the World Championships
• 196 pages printed to the highest standards in Wales, UK
• 130gsm (internal pages) and 300gsm (cover) silk-finish quality paper for brilliant photos and colours
• 170x225mm dimensions
• Edited by Zoe Cuthbert
• Shipped worldwide
• £18

About Ninety

It took us long enough, but finally we found all the right ingredients to make a cross-country yearbook to sit alongside our downhill and enduro books.

Ninety is the latest addition to the Misspent Summers store and we couldn’t be prouder of it.

Cross-country racer, all-round two-wheel talent and Misspent Summers crew member Zoe Cuthbert took the editor role for Ninety and has done a fantastic job pulling together a range of prominent voices and photographers from the XC world. Zoe put together our pilot XC print in 2024 and has built that out into a complete yearbook for 2025.

Ninety’s pages are filled with reporting, images and analysis from the entire 2025 UCI XC season, including all 10 XCO and XCC World Cup races and the World Championships.

There are 196 pages of XC action, including hundreds of superb photos and beautiful design printed to the same high standards as Hurly Burly and The World Stage in Wales, UK. We looked back to a format we’ve used and loved before: 225x170mm, the same dimensions as our Downtime EP print collaborations.

Ninety includes images and writing about all of cross-country mountain biking’s biggest stars, including Christopher Blevins, Martín Vidaurre, Luca Martin, Sammie Maxwell, Jenny Rissveds, Alessandra Keller. Racing reports include accounts of elite and under-23 XCO and XCC races, plus results and analysis.

In addition to the event reporting and photo galleries, other articles look at the people, places and science behind top-level racing. Interviews include Alessandra Keller, Fabio Püntner, Sammie Maxwell; elsewhere, racers put pen to paper to dissect their experiences, with contributions from Isla Short, Christopher Blevins, Bjorn Riley and Kate Courtney. In-depth analytical features discuss whether World Cup racing is becoming more competitive, the myth of power-to-weight ratio and how start position shapes XC racing.

Ethan Ross makes it onto the first-ever cross-country yearbook cover with an awesome photo by Piper Albrecht.

Photography: Kike Abelleira, Piper Albrecht, Ross Bell, Moni Gasbichler, Sven Martin, Andy Vathis, Ben Zeimes

Writing: Christopher Blevins, Zoe Cuthbert, Kate Courtney, Dom Geoghegan, Emilly Johnston, Isla Short, Tamara Wiedmann

Supporting brands: Fox Suspension, RockShox, Schwalbe, Stilspoke, SRAM

Published by Misspent Summers

Why we make mountain bike books

Misspent Summers has been making the mountain bike books since 2016. We started this company because, as fans of the sport, we wanted to record the history of mountain biking in a permanent format. Since then, we have produced dozens of high-quality coffee table mountain bike books that cover racing, riding and brand stories. Our books live on the bookshelves and tables of mountain biking’s biggest fans, as well as in bike shops and businesses the world over.