Youth vs Experience at 2023 Cape Town Cycle Tour Men’s Race
The elite men’s race at this year’s Cape Town Cycle Tour will come down to youth versus experience. The challengers in the field range from 37-year-old Nolan Hoffman, a four-time winner, to 23-year-old Marc Pritzen, the 2022 Cycle Tour champion and rising star on the global cycling scene. Former National Road Race Champion and elder […]
Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio brings team of 30 to Cape Town Cycle Tour
Former Cape Town Cycle Tour champion, the first winner of the UCI Cycling Esports World Championships and South Africa’s leading international female cyclist Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio is returning to where it all began – the Cape Town Cycle Tour. She’s also bringing 30 new “teammates” with her. Moolman-Pasio, a week after competing in the Strade Bianche […]
What to expect in the 2023 Cape Town Cycle Tour Elite Women’s Race
Since the move to a separate elite women’s race, in 2018, only two women have won the Cape Town Cycle Tour. Both will be lining up once more in 2023. They are five-time champion, Cherise Willeit, and the three-time victor Kimberley Le Court De Billot. Both the South African and the Mauritian are likely to […]
SRAM Commits to New Facility in Taichung, Taiwan
SRAM has been a committed manufacturer in Taiwan for over three decades, dedicated to producing innovative world class bicycle components for the high-end cycling market. SRAM’s newest production facility in Taichung is designed to be the ideal workspace for team members while optimizing productivity, maximizing efficiency, ensuring quality, and enhancing the competitiveness that characterizes SRAM. […]
Take your business to the max with Euphoria Telecom
Euphoria Telecom isn’t just South Africa’s most loved business phone solution, the company is also a proud backer of local mountain biking. Euphoria supports and maintains the popular Vasbyt trail in the Tokai Mountain Bike Park in Cape Town. The company also sponsors the emergency number for the park, for those moments when ‘whoop’ becomes […]
Beers and Lill Win 2023 South African XCM Championships
Matt Beers and Candice Lill proved themselves to be a class apart at the Bike Fest Paarl on Saturday, 4 March. The Toyota Specialized man won his second South African Marathon title, on the 75 kilometre long course; which started and finished at Rhebokskloof Wine Estate outside Paarl. While Lill, of Seattle Coffee Co King […]
South African XCM Championships Showdown Headlines 2023 Bike Fest Paarl
The 2023 South African Marathon Championships is set to headline the Bike Fest Paarl, at Rhebokskloof, this weekend. Saturday’s main event, the 80 kilometre showdown to determine who wears the national champion’s jerseys at stage races and marathon evens for the next 12 months, underpins a weekend of mountain bike racing on the Paarl Mountain. […]
e-Fort Symbtech Take on CM.com Women’s Category at the Absa Cape Epic
Amy Wakefield has completed four Absa Cape Epics thus far, winning the inaugural Absa African Women’s Jersey alongside Candice Lill in 2018. In those four finishes she has notched up three top five finishes in the CM.com Women’s category, and a second place in the Toyota Mixed category. Her partner for 2023, Irina Luetzelschwab, will […]
SRAM announce second-generation Force AXS
Press Release The most precise Force AXS is here. Upgraded with technologies developed for WorldTour pros, and a striking aesthetic all its own. Choose from integrated power solutions for road and gravel. Go further with intelligent gear ranges. Personalize it with the power of AXS. Enjoy redesigned shifter paddles, a sleeker hood shape, and the […]
Win a R3000 cycle kit voucher with Vye at Bike Fest Paarl and CTCT Expo
The inaugural Bike Fest Paarl is set to kick off this weekend at Rhebokskloof Wine Estate and Vye will be there with a full range of gear, including some brand-new releases as well as best sellers. Bike Fest Paarl opens its doors on Friday 3 March 2023 and will run until 5 March 2023, promising […]
Power Meter Market Disrupter Now Available In South Africa
As the quest to make power measurement for cycling more widely accessible continues, we’re seeing new brands entering the mix. Although not that new (launched in 2015) Sigeyi’s AXO power meter is making an impact on the discerning, committed cyclist market across, road, mountain bike, gravel and triathlon. It’s also now being distributed in South […]
Day and De Villiers Battle Headwinds to Win 2023 News24 Karoo Burn
Dusty Day and Yolande de Villiers emerged victorious in a war of attrition against the wind, as much as against the brutal R355 gravel road, at the 2023 News24 Karoo Burn; on Saturday, 25 February. The 242 kilometre long race, from Calvinia to Kaleo Guest Farm, near Ceres, took on the longest, straight, uninterrupted gravel […]