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Kevin Evans announces retirement from professional cycling
Kevin Evans, one of South Africa’s most successful cyclists, has announced that he will be hanging up his racing wheels in September 2015. The 2015 Karoo2Coast marathon, which finishes in Knysna, close to Evans’ Plettenberg Bay home, will be the race that concludes an illustrious 12-year professional career. Evans will celebrate his 37th birthday next […]
Karkloof blossoms into Autumn MTB carnival
The popular Sappi Karkloof MTB Festival turns 21 this weekend and gets underway at the Karkloof Country Club on Friday evening with 20km Karkloof Night Race, setting the tone for an action-packed mountain biking weekend in the region. Darren Lill will be hoping to add the 60km Sappi Karkloof Marathon title to his list of […]
Hollard Juma 2015: bigger, better and more badass than ever!
Take the Hollard Jozi Urban Mountain Bike Adventure to the next level in 2015? CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! We are excited to announce that the second Hollard Jozi Urban Mountain Bike Adventure, taking place on the 6h September 2015 in Johannesburg, is now open for entries. Partnering with City Parks and Joburg Zoo, the Hollard JUMA is […]
Defending champ in the dark ahead of Karkloof challenge
20km Karkloof Night Race defending champion Frederick Rossouw will return to the forests of the Karkloof region this weekend as he goes in search of a rare title defence on Friday evening before tackling Sunday’s 60km Sappi Karkloof Marathon, the 2015 Sappi Karkloof MTB Festival’s premier event. Despite the demands of Sunday’s challenging 60km race, […]
sani2c tree planting programme takes root
As thousands of MTB enthusiasts prepare to descend on the Southern Drakensberg for the 2015 Nedbank sani2c, the biggest multi-stage MTB race in the world, the impact of a passionate behind-the-scenes project to plant trees along the race route has started to blossom. The brain child of race director Glen Haw, the race has as […]
MTN-Qhubeka Preview: Amgen Tour of California
America’s greatest race, The Amgen Tour of California gets underway on Sunday 10th of May. Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung are excited to be taking part in the 8 stage UCI 2.HC event for the first time in the team’s history. As America’s most prestigious Tour and hosted in the cycling crazy state of California, it […]
Top notch BSi Steel dusi2c expected once more
Having hosted two successful editions of the BSi dusi2c mountain bike stage race already, the event returns in 2015 with a chocker block field expected to assemble for the two-day adventure that takes riders from Camps Drift in Pietermaritzburg along the route of the Dusi Canoe Marathon to Blue Lagoon in Durban from 20-21 June. […]
Capital Classic kicks off new national series
More than 3 000 road cyclists are expected to turn out for the inaugural Bestmed Capital Classic in Centurion, which kicks off the road component of the Bestmed National Cycling Series on Sunday, May 17. Starting at SuperSport Park, the classic is the first of six road and seven mountain bike events that will from […]
Addo ready to welcome Zuurberg riders
Addo is gearing up to welcome more than 140 mountain bikers from across South Africa for the second edition of the three-day PwC Great Zuurberg Trek, which is based at the Zuurberg Mountain Village near Port Elizabeth on May 29. The two-person teams will explore a 200km route that covers the Sundays River Valley and […]
Cycling SA reiterates firm stance against racism and xenophobia
Cycling South Africa recently took to their communication channels to stress the solid stance that the National Federation has against racism in our sport and country. The launch of the #jointheteam Anti-racism Pledge received great response from the cycling community and general public who took the opportunity to unite in our stance against racism. Cycling […]
Memorable joBerg2c for RMB Change a Life Zulus
The 2015 Old Mutual joBerg2c was a memorable nine days of mountain biking adventure for five of Martin Dreyer’s RMB Change a Life MTB Academy as the fast-emerging Valley of a Thousand Hills stars went toe to toe with some of the country’s best stage racers and were able to walk away with their heads […]
joBerg2c successfuls well prepared for Nedbank sani2c tussle
The dust stirred up by 2015 Old Mutual joBerg2c victors Johann Rabie and Gawie Combrinck has hardly settled and already the pair are relishing a return to the trails from Sani Pass down to Scottburgh Main Beach at this year’s Nedbank sani2c which takes place from 14-16 May. The EAI duo stood head and shoulders […]