Videos
Registration video clip for the Raid TransMauritania Fatbike 2021
The clip gives you a glimpse of this sporting challenge: the Raid TransMauritania Fatbike, a unique raid through the desert.
RTM 2020, registration launch
A look back at the first edition of Raid TransMauritania in February 2019 and the experience of the event’s pioneers, at the time of launching the registration.
The origin of the Raid TransMauritania
Yann, race director, looks back at the origins of the Raid TransMauritania. Find out what made us decide to organise a fatbike race in the desert, and how the idea came about.
Yann discovered Mauritania in 2004 when he came here as a PE teacher at the French high school. He discovered a magnificent country that he loved. He was already doing a lot of mountain biking and running. The landscapes he loved, he now wishes to share with others.
An unusual Raid
On the Raid TransMauritania, we provide a GPS track and a road book with the main directions. So, with their fatbike, the competitors will be able to go where they want, but especially where they can. They will have to learn to read the dunes.
The raid is atypical, because of the terrain, the temperature, the landscapes and the encounters, not forgetting your mount, the fatbike – for some of you, this will be your first event on this kind of bike.
Competition or adventure ride?
The Wali of Adrar warmly welcomes the RTM.
Raid TransMauritania, come and dream!
Raid TransMauritania video clip
They created a fatbike race in the Mauritanian desert.
300 kilometres of wilderness trails reserved for fatbikes in teams of two over six stages from 17 to 24 February 2019, come and dream!
A report on the Raid TransMauritania
Calling all lovers of unusual sensations – like hurtling down a black run so far from any ski resort. That is the stamp Yann has put on the race he came to create this winter in Mauritania, the Raid TransMauritania.
On each reconnaissance, what we want is to go and play between the rocks, to find beautiful descents between the rocks and the sand, that there is real riding on the routes.
A fatbike race, mountain bikes with bigger tyres that increase the lift on the sand.
Tubeless tyres mandatory on the RTM
During our reconnaissance in the Mauritanian Adrar, in search of the most beautiful tracks for this first edition of Raid TransMauritania, we took the opportunity to test the equipment a little to be able to give you the best advice for the event.
The answer is clear: you have to equip your fatbikes with tubeless! Acacia thorns are merciless and leave no respite for the inner tubes.
With tubeless, there is no inner tube, but instead a sealant that plugs the holes as they occur, while you ride. This way you can continue to ride without worries.
Yann’s dream (52′)
Since his departure from Mauritania in 2010, Yann had only one dream: to come back and rediscover the country.
As an accomplished sportsman, he therefore imagined a fatbike mountain bike race in the desert and the mountains of the Mauritanian Adrar.
Relive the reconnaissance carried out for the organisation of the 1st Raid TransMauritania in the winter of 2019!
Safety: what the competitors say
They took part in the first edition of the Raid TransMauritania, they were the pioneers of the event. This is how they felt about safety in the country.
The pioneers (52′)
Discover the first edition of the Raid TransMauritania.
Pedaling through the Dunes (52′)
The 2nd edition of the Raid TransMauritania
