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Best Bike in Africa 2015: #5 SwiftCarbon Evil Twin
The Best Bike in Africa will be held at the 2015 Standard Bank Africa Cycle Fair on 23 – 25 October at St Stithians College, Johannesburg. The competition invites fair visitors to vote for their favourite bike at the Best Bike in Africa stand. All the entrants that vote for the bike that wins the […]
Cape Pioneer Trek heralds a new era with exciting new route
The Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race will herald a new era when the eighth edition gets underway in the coastal town of Mossel Bay in South Africa’s Western Cape province on Sunday. A new route configuration and fresh, never-previously-ridden trails combine with iconic geographic and historic regions in three different biospheres to […]
Team Bestmed-ASG take on Cape Pioneer Trek
Team Bestmed-ASG members will make their presence known at one of South Africa’s toughest mountain bike stage races, the Cape Pioneer Trek, which starts near Mossel Bay this coming weekend. Riders Michelle Benson, Mariette Hattingh and Sanet Coetzee will team up with male partners to do battle in the mixed category at the seven-day race. […]
Kanstanstin Siutsou adds firepower to Team Dimension Data from 2016
With planning for the 2016 season already well underway, we are ecstatic in announcing Kanstanstin Siutsou as the latest addition to our African team, set to race as Team Dimension Data next year. Kanstanstin is one of the real powerhouses of the professional peloton and he joins our team after spending the past 4 seasons […]
Best Bike in Africa 2015: #4 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp 6Fattie
The Best Bike in Africa will be held at the 2015 Standard Bank Africa Cycle Fair on 23 – 25 October at St Stithians College, Johannesburg. The competition invites fair visitors to vote for their favourite bike at the Best Bike in Africa stand. All the entrants that vote for the bike that wins the […]
Video: Claudio Caluori takes on the Red Bull Rampage mountain
Former UCI World Cup racer and current Gstaad-Scott team manager Claudio Caluori has become famous for his course previews over the past few World Cup seasons. With his trademark enthusiasm and witty banter he has followed everyone from 2015 World Cup downhill champ Aaron Gwin to the fitness freaks on the XCO circuit. So what […]
Singletrack heaven for 2016 Absa Cape Epic riders
The 2016 Absa Cape Epic route has been revealed and will contain more singletrack than ever before in the race’s 12-year-history. A total of 110km of the 647km route will be made up of singletrack trails as the eight-days of riding takes riders from Table Mountain to Tulbagh, Wellington, Stellenbosch and Durbanville. Although the 647km […]
Win 1 of 3 Absa Cape Epic team entries with USN
Challenge yourself with USN and win 1 of 3 team entries to the 2016 Absa Cape Epic plus 20 USN product hampers worth R2000 each. USN is the new Official Sports Nutrition Partner to the ABSA Cape Epic. We know that the fuel you choose will either make or break your performance, and that meeting […]
Video: 2016 Absa Cape Epic route
The route of the 13th edition of the Absa Cape Epic, taking place from 13 to 20 March 2016, will have the highest proportion of single track than ever before (110km). Image credit: Absa Cape Epic. Both local and international mountain biking enthusiasts will be taking on the demanding eight day mountain bike adventure of […]
Jeep Team’s Dylan Rebello wins Tour de Plett
Jeep Team’s Dylan Rebello claimed victory at the 85-km Tour de Plett MTB race finishing in 3:41:00, ahead of second-placed Hanco Kachelhoffer (3:41:02) and Colin Noel in 3rd (3:41:23). Tour de Plett was held in the Garden Route, Rebello’s home ground, on Saturday 10th October 2015. The Tour de Plett is considered one of the […]
North West crowned Spur MTB League provincial champions
Hundreds of MTB riders and supporters converged at Bekker School in Gauteng for the eagerly anticipated finals of the Spur Schools MTB league and Interprovincial Championships. Adriaan Duminy – sub junior provincial champion. A tough battle between defending champions Gauteng and 2014 runner up North West erupted as the top riders in each province competed […]
Marianne Vos and Shimano join forces to launch ‘Strongher’, a new initiative to support women’s cycling
At a press conference held yesterday in London, multiple World and Olympic champion Marianne Vos launched Strongher, a new and unique international concept in cycling. Strongher is a movement that will connect professional and grassroots cycling worlds and unify all global women’s cycling initiatives under a shared and common goal, to create a stage for […]