‘Ninety’ was the missing piece in the World Cup yearbook jigsaw as Misspent Summers cover Nino Schurter’s final season in the cross country World Cups.
World Cup cross country has come of age, and 2025 saw the swansong of the GOAT packed with unforgettable racing from Brazil through Europe to North America.
Ninety: New cross-country yearbook by Misspent Summers
Misspent Summers is proud to launch Ninety, a complete account of the 2025 Cross-Country Mountain Bike World Cup and World Championships season.
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 and is packed with 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. It is available now from the Misspent Summers store.
Ninety– the details:
- 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
- Published by Misspent Summers
- Shipped worldwide
- £18
About Ninety
Ninety is the latest addition to the Misspent Summers range of coffee table books for mountain bikers.
Cross-country racer, all-round two-wheel talent and Misspent Summers crew member Zoe Cuthbert took the editor role for Ninety and did a fantastic job pulling together a range of prominent voices and photographers from the XC world. Zoe put together Misspent Summers’ pilot XC print in 2024 and has built that 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 Misspent Summers’ downhill and enduro yearbooks, Hurly Burly and The World Stage, in Wales, UK.
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 Rose makes it onto the first-ever cross-country yearbook cover with an awesome photo by Piper Albrecht.
Ninety is available from the Misspent Summers store now and is shipping worldwide.
Who is this book for?
Misspent Summers books are the perfect gift for mountain bikers, bringing all the excitement of top-level racing to their fingertips.
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Contributors
Ninety is published by Misspent Summers
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
About Misspent Summers
Misspent Summers brings together many of mountain biking’s leading and most experienced media professionals to make high quality print and digital products. The company has been producing coffee table bike books including racing, riding and brand stories since 2016.
Photography
For a masterclass in mountain biking photography, look no further than Misspent Summers. The company counts the sport’s best photographers among its staff and contributors, including chief photographers Boris Beyer, Sebastian Schieck and Sven Martin, who have been with the company since the very first publication in 2016. We now work with a wide range of photographers and contributors, all aspiring to create the highest quality work in cycling.
Product
All Misspent Summers racing yearbooks are printed to the best standards on high-quality semi-gloss (or silk) paper – semi-gloss is preferable to ultra-glossy as it minimises light reflections and fingerprints while producing vibrant, punchy colours.
Reporting and writing
Every round of 2025 UCI Downhill Mountain Bike World Cup and Enduro World Cup racing is covered in Hurly Burly’s and The World Stage’s detailed reports, written by dozens of expert contributors, that dissect and immortalise the season of racing. Additionally, standalone features, analysis, illustrations, and diagrams break down the standout characters, courses, and stories from the year.
Design and production
Every Misspent Summers MTB book is made with extreme attention to detail by a group of print experts with hundreds of years of combined experience. The team includes prominent industry figures who have edited and designed some of mountain biking’s most iconic media, notably Dirt Magazine.
