Review: ONE Industries Atom Shorts
Firmly established in the motocross industry, One Industries have been steadily building and improving their mountain bike offerings. The Atom shorts have seen some big changes from the 2014 model. A new design and fabric have been used for their latest trail riding shorts. The Atom is made from a new lightweight four-way stretch polyester […]
Trail Daze: Up the N2 to the Garden Route Trail Park
Guarded by the majestic Outeniqua mountain range and the Karatara river gorge, the Garden Route trail park is located about 5 hours of scenic driving from Cape Town, or just 40km from the ever popular town of Knysna. Owner and trail builder, Rob Dormehl, has put together a high quality MTB destination that should be […]
Lesotho Sky Diaries: Ramabanta Loop
The final stage of Lesotho Sky took us on a loop from Ramabanta Lodge and back. The stage seemed harmless: only 47km and 1400m ascent. I was feeling really good and keen to ride hard. Nick had other ideas. We started out on a steep tar climb back up the pass we came over yesterday. […]
First Look Friday: Thule Enroute, Rudy Project Traylx, 4Shaw socks & Syntace W-35 wheels
First Look Friday is an introduction to the products that we are currently testing for review. This week we’re featuring the Thule Enroute Blur 2 Daypack, Rudy Project Traylx glasses, 4Shaw cycling socks & gloves and Syntace W-35 MX mountain bike wheels. Thule Enroute Blur 2 Backpack Already sporting a good few Thule backpacks and […]
Lesotho Sky Diaries: Roma to Ramabanta
Day 5 took us from Roma back to our starting point at Ramabanta Lodge. It was statistically by far the hardest stage of Lesotho Sky: 2600 metres of climbing over 84 kilometres. Sunrise saw me feeling sore and apprehensive, as I considered the ride ahead. We started off slowly on our stiff legs, winding our […]
Lesotho Sky Diaries: Malealea Lodge to Roma
Day 4 of Lesotho Sky took us from Malealea Lodge to Roma. A journey of 89km with over 1800m of climbing. Today’s ride can be summarised as follows: It was hard and it hurt. There were lots and lots of rocks. Lesotho has various kinds of rocks: loose pebbly rocks, slippery, smooth wet ones, large […]
Lesotho Sky Diaries: The Malealea Monster
Day 3 was dubbed the rest day. However, with only 55 kms and 1500 metres of climbing there was little respite to be had. Starting from the Malealea Lodge, the route headed straight down the valley to the river bed via a fast rocky descent. All hesitation about jumping on the bike for the day […]
Lesotho Sky Diaries: Ramabanta to Malealea Lodge
The route for Day 2 took us from Ramabanta to Malealea Lodge via some truly epic mountain terrain. The first 20 km’s were both the slowest and the best mountain biking we could have imagined. Raw rocky descents- some terminating in adrenalin-spiking drop-offs. Loose, technical climbs that put the heart straight into the red zone, […]
Lesotho Sky Diaries: Semonkong Falls Prologue
The Lesotho Sky prologue is traditionally a time trial event in Maseru but, due to an event clash, it was moved to the Semonkong Falls, 110 kms outside of Maseru, as a mass start. It was a spectacular from start to finish. The Duck and Donkey Tavern hosted the start which spanned over a bridge […]
First Look Friday: Garmin Edge 520, Thule Transition, and Leatt Airflex Pro
First Look Friday is an introduction to the products that we are currently testing for review. This week we’re featuring Garmin’s Edge 520 GPS computer, the Thule RoundTrip Transition hard case bike box, and Leatt’s Airflex guards. Garmin Edge 520 With the Edge 520, Garmin did away with the touch screen found on the previous […]
Race report: Imana Wild Ride 2015
With the various race reports that I have done I prepare a template a head of time with the various criteria that I use to rate the race but after only 20 minutes into day one of the Imana Wild Ride I knew that anything I had used before would just not work for this […]
Review: Lindarets ReMount
The Lindarets ReMount is a novel component that allows one to use an “over the bar mounted” dropper post lever (a Giant dropper post lever in my instance) to be mounted in a more ergonomic position. Very similar to that of a gear shifter. This may seem trivial, but the action on the standard Giant […]