Watch it in action
One look is enough: riders drop through Genoa at full speed, bouncing off stone steps, carving blind corners and threading tight alleyways with the sea waiting at the bottom.
The route turns the city into the obstacle
Red Bull Genova Cerro Abajo returns to a familiar 2.2km course that falls 279 metres from Monte Peralto to Largo della Zecca. The setting is the whole spectacle: old stone lanes, steep stairways, hard surfaces and sudden elevation changes packed into a course that was never designed for bicycles moving this fast.
What makes it so brutal
This is urban downhill at its most unforgiving. The riders have to attack every section with total precision, because the track mixes speed with punishment at every turn.
- Narrow staircases and ancient creuze
- Blind turns with walls closing in on both sides
- Purpose-built jumps and drops woven into the city
- Zero room for hesitation on a time-trial course
Why Genoa works on camera
The image is immediate: a mountain bike flying past centuries-old architecture, inches from stone walls and steps, in a city that looks too tight, too steep and too old for this kind of speed. That contrast is exactly why the event hits so hard in video and in still frames.
Red Bull Genova Cerro Abajo is urban downhill as pure spectacle: architecture, consequence and speed compressed into one violent-looking descent.
