Podium dominance for Cycle Lab Toyota at SA Time Trial Champs
The racing division of Cycle Lab Toyota, South Africa’s largest cycling club, secured three gold and one silver medal on the first day of the 2012 South African Road Race Championships in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga on Thursday. The individual time trial events got the four-day annual showpiece off to an exciting start with some top class […]
Janse Van Rensburg, Taylor Crowned SA Elite TT Champions
Nelspruit was abuzz with South Africa’s top road cyclists today for the opening race of the Mpumalanga Sport Council 2012 SA National Road Cycling and Time Trial Championships. The cream of the crop took to the roads on their own, battling the hot, humid and still conditions in the Individual Time Trial discipline, marking the […]
Van Jaarsveld and Nüssli looking for podium finish in 2012 Absa Cape Epic
The Absa Cape Epic, now in its ninth year, has become one of the most important events on the global mountain biking calendar. For the first time this year, riders in the Ladies category will be given the opportunity to earn UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) points at an HC (Hors Categorie) race. Two ladies to […]
All Girl Pro Team Targets Pietermaritzburg MTB World Cup
The all women Italian based MTB Pro-Team Colnago-Südtirol gearing up for the 2012 RockyRoads UCI MTB World Cup Pietermaritzburg © EGO Promotion/Gameplan Media The all-women Italian based MTB Pro-Team Colnago-Südtirol will jet into South Africa next week targeting the season-opening RockyRoads UCI MTB World Cup as strategically important in an Olympic year. The current world […]
Mountaineer and Polar Adventurer to participate in this year’s Absa Cape Epic
World-renowned mountaineer and polar adventurer, Alex Harris, will take up the challenge of riding the legendary Absa Cape Epic – a challenging 781km mountain bike race with 16 300m of climbing. At 25 years of age, Harris was the youngest person ever to lead an expedition to Mount Everest. Alex Harris on Mount Everest in […]
Surprise Success as Cycle Lab employees win stage race
Everyone was surprised that Ben Mwanje and Daniel Alikisente of Team Cycle Lab Toyota, won the overall title at the Bridgestone Route 69 Experience, a three-day mountain bike stage race held in the north west of Johannesburg, Gauteng at the weekend. Everyone that is, except them. It was the first stage race that Mwanje (29) […]
Ihlenfeldt Takes Double Victory and Series Win
This past weekend saw the finale of the Aca Joe Pro Classic Series with two races in two days. On Saturday the cyclists competed in the Wellington Lions Race over 94km and Sunday the series finished off with the Bay City Cycle Tour over 84km. Stefan Ihlenfeldt of the Smith & Associate / OBike Maties […]
The MTB World Cup Beginners’ Guide
With less than a month to go before all the action of the 2012 RockyRoads UCI MTB World Cup season opener in Pietermaritzburg gets underway, cyclists throughout South Africa and around the world are starting to catch what is fast being termed ‘MTB World Cup fever’. With the best riders from around the world set […]
Team Bonitas all set to defend SA Road Champs title
The most important annual domestic road cycling event, the South African Road Race Championship, takes place in Nelspruit this week and top professional outfit, Team Bonitas, have left nothing to chance in their efforts to defend one title and chase two more. With 2011 road race champion Darren Lill in their ranks, Team Bonitas will […]
Swiss Champs Looser and Huber a strong team going into 2012 Absa Cape Epic
The Absa Cape Epic, now in its ninth year, has become one of the most important events on the global mountain biking calendar. As the premier team stage mountain bike race on the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) calendar, the race annually hosts the world’s most accomplished and legendary mountain bike riders. This year, everyone will […]
Craft claims Knysna three-stage
Johannesburg’s Adrian Enthoven and Delaney Impey preserved their eight-minute lead to claim overall victory in the taxing three-day Garden Route Rocky Mountain 300 mountain bike race in Knysna on Sunday. The Team Craft pair crossed the line in third on the final stage to secure the honours in 12:32:25 ahead of day one leaders Timo […]
Evans claims dominant win at Sabie Marathon World Series Event
Four-time South African marathon champion, Kevin Evans (Nedbank 360Life), left nothing to chance when he raced to a dominant victory over a strong international field at Round 3 of the South African National Marathon Series in Sabie in the Mpumalanga province on Saturday. The 33-year-old, who has won the National Marathon Series title six times, […]