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Mallorca Challenge: Valverde wins after brave ride by Merhawi Kudus
The third Mallorca Challenge race was one for the climbers as the route included no less than 7 categorised climbs. After coming 2nd behind our Steve Cummings during yesterday’s race, Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) managed to go one better to claim the victory today. He crossed the line solo with Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal) coming 2nd and […]
James Reid sets the pace in Trans Hajar MTB race
The fifth edition of Oman’s Trans Hajar Mountain Bike multi-day stage race kicked off today with an Individual Time Trial in the breath-taking surroundings of Jebel Shams, Arabia’s highest peak (3,028 metres). Leading the pack by 1 minute 40 seconds in the Male Open Category is South African 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic hopeful, James […]
Great team effort sets up Steve Cummings for the win!
The 2nd day of racing at the Mallorca Challenge proved to be a magical day for Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung as Steve Cummings earned our team’s first victory of the season! Steve put in a late attack with just a kilometer to go after teammate Johann van Zyl spent over 145km’s in the days’ main […]
Big name back for SA Road Champs
The South African Road and Time Trial Championships are only a few days away and the quality of the field will be of the highest order in 2015 with South African Time Trial champion and international cycling star Daryl Impey set to line up against the country’s best locally based riders in Mbombela from 3-8 […]
An Epic adventure for a cycling legend
She might be the world’s most-decorated women’s mountain biker, but Norway’s Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå is playing down her chances of a win in her debut Absa Cape Epic. “‘Survive and enjoy’ is the motto for Kathrin Stirnemann (her partner in Team World Bicycle Relief) and I,” said Dahle Flesjå. “We are approaching it as a […]
Tread Buffalo category at Ashburton Investments MTB Series
It was confirmed on Friday that each event in the 2015 Ashburton Investments National Mountain Bikes Series will include a TREAD Buffalo Category, starting with the first round of the Series at Meerendal in the Western Cape on Saturday, 31 January 2015. GD Kotzee, highest points scorer in the TREAD Buffalo Category in 2014, has […]
ROTOR presents Q-Rings for Qhubeka
Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung will be using the ROTOR Q-Rings this season on all models of its Cervélo bikes. We are quite excited at this partnership and are pleased to report that ROTOR’s passion and support for the Qhubeka initiative has led them to produce special edition ROTOR Q-Rings for Qhubeka. The special edition Q-Rings […]
Surprises in store for the 2015 Pennypinchers Dr Evil Classic
The fourth edition of the Garden Route’s most spectacular stage race, the Dr Evil Classic, will take place from 17-19 September 2015. Entries are open and master route designer Leon Evans has guaranteed that his signature event will once again be one to remember. Each stage of the three-day event will be unique with day […]
Two more Specialized Elite shops open in SA
To meet the growing demand in cycling and a more personal shopping experience, Specialized Africa has teamed up with another two cycling retailers in Gauteng. This past week two new Elite shops were opened in Dunkeld and Bedfordview. This adds to the growing countrywide network of Specialized Concept and Elite Stores. Some of the Specialized […]
Change to junior national squad for African Continental Championships
The 2015 Confederation of African Cycling Road Cycling Championships takes place in Wartburg, KwaZulu-Natal, from 9 to 14 February. Following the withdrawal of Luc Green from the junior squad, the selectors have added the following three riders to make up an 8-man squad: John Vlok Branwill Blaauw Joshua Francis The squad will be whittled down […]
Erik Kleinhans and Nico Bell tackle Epic with two goals in mind
A video clip (below) from the 2014 Absa Cape Epic shows Team RECM’s Erik Kleinhans and Nico Bell swooping down a hill, stopping alongside a stricken Frantisek Rabon and immediately setting about repairing a problem on the Specialized rider’s bike. Rabon was, of course, Christoph Sauser’s partner in 2014 and the South African pairing of […]
Andy Stauff – Crash Report
Today saw MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung begin their racing season at the Mallorca Challenge. Unfortunately we did not have the ideal start to our seasons campaign as Andreas Stauff crashed out of the race in the closing kilometers. It was a chaotic finale as the crosswinds pushed the peloton into the gutters. The high speed and […]