Big payday as George, Evans win Cape Pioneer Trek Queen Stage
Overnight race leaders and defending champions, Kevin Evans and David George (Nedbank 360Life) claimed the biggest stage prize purse of any mountain bike stage race in the world when they won Stage 2 of the Bridge Cape Pioneer on top of the Swartberg Pass in South Africa’s Western Cape province on Tuesday. The top South […]
Gibbons rides to victory on rivals spare bike at Nissan Ride Crater Cruise
Winning races in the Nissan National half marathon-series is important, but certainly is not the be all and end all of mountain biking. That became very clear on Sunday at the start of the Nissan Ride Crater Cruise when the fork of Ryan Gibbons’ (ASG Eagle Canyon Cycles) mountain bike broke. Gibbons was in a […]
Clear Results Brings Positive Closure to Maritzburg’s Masters World Champs
Amidst controversial drug results world wide in the sport of cycling, the news that the 2012 UCI World Cycling Tour Final has produced a completely clean slate of results has been met with great excitement. The UWCT Final local organising committee is delighted with the positive feedback, which puts the lid on the 2012 event […]
Mountain Bikers Hospitalised after encounter with Bees
Stage 1 of the Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage in the Oudtshoorn region of South Africa was hit by a unexpected surprise when a group of mid-pack riders was met by a swarm of bees approximately 60km in the 103km stage from Oudtshoorn to Calitzdorp. A total of 30 riders were badly […]
Evans, George extend lead at Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek
The Nedbank 360Life team of Kevin Evans and David George extended their overall lead after winning Stage 1 of the Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek mountain bike stage race over a distance of 103km from Oudtshoorn to Calitzdorp in South Africa’s Western Cape province on Monday. The leading pack tackles stoney jeep track during Stage 1 […]
Rabie times it just right to give Bonitas Amashova win
Johann Rabie’s patience paid off as he timed his sprint from an 18-strong breakaway group to perfection to win the 2012 Amashova Durban Classic 106km road cycling race in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday. The Team Bonitas rider clocked a winning time of 02 hours 20 minutes 08 seconds and was followed home by Eritrean star Jani […]
Perfect Start as Evans, George win Cape Pioneer Trek Prologue
Defending champions, Kevin Evans and David George (Nedbank 360Life) got their 2012 Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek mountain bike stage race off to the perfect start on Sunday when they won the 15km prologue time trial stage in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Starting last as defending champions George and Evans blitzed their way around […]
Evans takes his fifth and fourth consecutive MTN Ride Crater Cruise
‘Years may come and years may go’ but the winner of the MTN Ride Crater Cruise ultra-marathon (106km) never seems to change. In Parys, on Saturday (13 October), Kevin Evans (Nedbank360Life) won the Ride Crater Cruise for an unprecedented fourth time consecutively. His winning time was 3 hours 27 minutes and 21 seconds. James Reid […]
Van Jaarsveld to bid farewell to professional cycling at MTN Ride Crater Cruise
Karien van Jaarsveld (MTN-Qhubeka) is privileged to count herself among the few South African mountain bikers who can say: ‘I came, I rode and I conquered.’ In the brief period of only three years during which she was a professional mountain biker, she certainly made her presence felt. Last year she won the South African […]
SA Road Team Announced for African Continental Champs – BUR
Cycling South Africa has selected a strong road cycling team to participate in the African Continental Championships to be held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 7 to 11 November 2012. Fresh from her impressive performance at the UCI Road World Championships in the Netherlands, where she finished in 12th place, Olympian Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio will look […]
Swanepoel sighted as surprise package for MTN Ride Crater Cruise
Watch out for Ben-Melt Swanepoel (Merida/Squirt Lube) at the MTN Ride Crater Cruise ultra-marathon in Parys on Saturday (13 October). It is safe to predict that he will surprise many people, riders as well as spectators. A study of the results of the Ride Crater Cruise reveals that Swanepoel has a unique record. Apparently there […]
Swan song for Stander at 2012 Cycle Challenge
This year’s Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge (18 November) will be the end of the first chapter of the cycling career of Cherise Stander (Momentum-Toyota). From next year Stander, who is a past winner of the Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge, will compete virtually only in mountain-bike races. Her goal is to represent South Africa at the […]