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Jul 21, 2023

How to watch Mountain Bike World Championships 2023: live stream for free from anywhere

Downhill riders will descend the Nevis Range slopes at 80km/h You can watch the 2023 Mountain Bike World Championships for free on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and SBS On Demand in Australia. Sporza in

Downhill riders will descend the Nevis Range slopes at 80km/h

You can watch the 2023 Mountain Bike World Championships for free on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and SBS On Demand in Australia. Sporza in Belgium, France TV Sport in France, Rai Play in Italy, and Teledeporte in Spain are also offering free live coverage of the event. Full details on how to watch the Mountain Bike World Championships just below. And don't forget: you can use a VPN watch a FREE Mountain Bike World Championships live stream from anywhere.

The cycling discipline that most people are least likely to contemplate participating in and most likely to watch (even if it's largely through their fingers), mountain biking is genuinely stomach-churning, with the most committed riders in the downhill competition expected to soar down the slopes of Fort William's Nevis Range mountain resort at up to 80km/h, all while navigating loose rocks, road gaps and jumps, as well as gradients as extreme as 20% in certain sections.

That British teenager Jordan Williams and British veteran Rachel Atherton are two of the best riders around makes things all the more thrilling. They both made it through qualifying, with Atherton managing to shake off a dislocated shoulder to remain in contention for a rainbow jersey. It's already finals day for the elite men and women, and reigning men's world champion Loic Bruni (France) and women's world champion Valentina Höll (Austria) set the bar in qualifying.

In a couple of days' time, the undulating trails at Glentress Forest will play host to the 100km Cross-Country Marathon and the shorter and faster Cross-Country, which also includes short track, team relay and electric mountain bike races.

The peaks and troughs don't just present mental and physical challenges for the riders, but push the bikes themselves to the limit too, with mechanical failures and punctures likely to throw a few spanners into the works and completely alter the complexion of races.

Read on as we explain how to watch a FREE 2023 Mountain Bike World Championships live stream from anywhere with a VPN. Full schedule and details of how to watch this UCI Cycling World Championships event below.

(All times BST)

MOUNTAIN BIKE DOWNHILL

Saturday, August 512.30pm - Women Elite - Final 2pm - Men Elite - Final

MOUNTAIN BIKE CROSS-COUNTRY MARATHON

Sunday, August 69am - Men Elite9.30am - Women Elite

MOUNTAIN BIKE CROSS-COUNTRY

Tuesday, August 810:15am - Women Elite Cross-Country Short Track - Qualification - Heat 1 & 211:30 - Men Elite Cross-Country Short Track - Qualification - Heat 1 & 2

Wednesday, August 912:30pm - Mixed Team Relay 3pm - Women Elite E-MTB Cross-Country 4.30pm - Men Elite E-MTB Cross-Country

Thursday, August 1012pm - Women Junior Cross-Country Olympic 2pm - Men Junior Cross-Country Olympic 5.45pm - Men Elite Cross-Country Short Track - Final 6.30pm - Women Elite Cross-Country Short Track - Final

Friday, August 1111.30am - Men Under 23 Cross-Country Olympic 3.30pm - Women Under 23 Cross-Country Olympic

Saturday, August 1211.30am - Women Elite Cross-Country Olympic 3.30pm - Men Elite Cross-Country Olympic

One of the best things about the UCI Cycling World Championships is that they're completely free to watch in lots of countries around the world. For example:

UK – BBC iPlayer

Australia – SBS

Belgium – Sporza

France – France TV Sport

Italy – Rai Sport

Spain – RTVE

If you're from any of the countries listed above but you're abroad right now, don't worry about missing out on that free coverage. All you need to do is subscribe to a VPN to watch a free Mountain Bike World Championships live stream and re-connect to your home streaming coverage.

If you're abroad right now and struggling to tap into your usual coverage, you'll want a VPN. This'll help you circumvent the geo-blocking that will try to stop you watching a Mountain Bike World Championships live stream in particular parts of the world.

They're a useful means of getting around this issue, are cheap, and easy to set-up as well. Here's how it's done.

Use a VPN to watch Mountain Bike World Championships 2023 from anywhere

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Using a VPN is as easy as one-two-three...

1. Download and install a VPN - as we say, our top choice is ExpressVPN.

2. Connect to the appropriate server location - open the VPN app, hit 'choose location' and select the appropriate location, eg: 'UK' for BBC iPlayer.

3. Go to the broadcaster's stream - head to your home broadcaster's site or app and watch as if you were at home - BBC iPlayer for Brits abroad.

In the UK, the majority of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships action is being shown across BBC Two, BBC Three and the BBC Red Button, and that of course includes coverage of the Mountain Bike World Championships.

That means you can watch a Mountain Bike World Championships live stream for free on BBC iPlayer, which is free to use and works across a wide range of devices including smart TVs, laptops, games consoles, mobile phones, tablets and streaming sticks. Currently travelling overseas?

Use ExpressVPN to watch BBC iPlayer from abroad.

Hardcore cycling fans who don't mind spending a bit of money for comprehensive coverage may want to turn to Discovery+ or GCN+ instead.

A Discovery+ subscription costs £6.99 per month or £59.99 for the year, and lets you tune in on a wide range of devices, as well as the Eurosport TV channels.

GCN+ costs £6.99 per month or £39.99 per year, and offers ad-free live coverage of loads of cycling events throughout the year.

Every event of the Mountain Bike World Championships is being live streamed for free in Australia via SBS on Demand.

It's the streaming offshoot of SBS Viceland, which is televising select UCI Cycling World Championships events.

Outside Australia but want your usual coverage? Use ExpressVPN to watch your favourite streaming services from anywhere on the planet.

Cycling fans in the US can watch the Mountain Bike World Championships live on FloBikes.

A FloBikes subscription costs $150 per year, which works out at $12.50 per month.

If you're currently out of the US but still want to watch coverage of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships, don't forget to explore the VPN route set out above.

FloBikes is the place to watch the Mountain Bike World Championships in Canada.

A subscription costs US$150 per year (roughly CA$200), which works out at US$12.50 per month (roughly CA$17).

Not in Canada to catch that FloBikes stream? Use a VPN to make sure you don't miss a moment.

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Aatif is a freelance copywriter and journalist based in the UK. He’s written about technology, science and politics for publications including Gizmodo, The Independent, Trusted Reviews and Newsweek, but focuses on streaming at Future, an arrangement that combines two of his greatest passions: sport and penny-pinching.

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