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Adventure and Travel
The joy of exploring by bicycling.
Video: Spur Sizzling Skillz – Pre-race bike check
Watch Team Spur mechanic JP Jacobs, take you through an essential pre-race bike check. Make sure your machine is safe and ready to rip up the trails at your next Spur Schools Mountain Bike League event!
Exploring the Italian province of South Tyrol
For the past few years, where to start the new bike season wasn’t really a question. It was more a matter of deciding which week we should drive those six hours down to Finale Ligure. For obvious reasons we were (and still are) amazed by what Finale Ligure has to offer. But this year Armin […]
Contego Segment Hunter #1: Gert Heyns takes on Bloemslang
We’re excited to launch the first episode of our online video series Contego Segment Hunter. The first segment in the series is Bloemslang – Just the Drop at Bloemendal Wine Estate. After consulting with the team and local riders, Gert Heyns was selected a worthy challenger to Louis Bresler-Knipe’s King of the Mountain. Watch the […]
Trail Daze | Drakensberg on the fly
We head out to KZN and the greater Drakensberg area, to bring you an alternative take on ascending 1400 vertical metres, a world of off-piste trails and riding that will test the average man and his machine to their limits. A line I’ve been thinking about for a while now, planning this rather unique trip […]
Photos: Uitkyk Dirtopia Enduro
The second Dirtopia enduro of the year took place on a perfect autumn day at Uitkyk wine estate on the slopes of the Simonsberg mountain. Chris Hitchcock was there, camera in hand, to capture all the action. What a great day, with the most amazing morning light in the forests. Thanks to everyone for all […]
Contego Segment Hunter Episode 1 Preview: Bloemslang – Just the Drop
We’re excited to reveal the first segment in our new online video series titled ‘Contego Segment Hunter’. As the name suggests the series is all about Strava Segments. We’ll be looking for the gnarliest, toughest or just plain coolest sections of road, dirt or trail to unleash our chosen challenger on. For the first challenge […]
Trail Daze | Bobsledding down Welvanpas
Back on home soil after exploring some fine trails up North. We headed out to a destination that needs no real introduction. Known simply as Welvanpas, the trail network merely originates on the farm, but actually spans across six farms in the greater Bainskloof area. Naturally when covering such a large expanse, you can expect […]
Introducing Contego Segment Hunter: a six-part video series
We’re stoked to introduce an exciting new online video series titled ‘Contego Segment Hunter’. As the name suggests the series is all about Strava Segments. We’ll be looking for the gnarliest, toughest or just plain coolest sections of road, dirt or trail to unleash our chosen challenger on. For the first season of this six-part […]
Video: Destination Trail – South Africa
In this episode of Destination Trail, we follow Hannah Barnes and Miranda Miller as the pair ride the scorched wilderness of Stellenbosch, South Africa. A vast network of trails have existed here since the ’90s, but after a massive fire scorched much of the Jonkershoek Nature Reserve in 2015, fresh funding has paved the way […]
Series Report: Subaru WC XCO Series 2016
I have wanted to ride XCO since I first saw Burry Stander riding in the Olympics in 2012. Never mind that at the time I hadn’t touched a bike since I was nine years old- a trivial detail. To me XCO is the ultimate athletic achievement- it requires above average bike handling skills, strength and […]
Revised Environmental Management Programme for cycling in TMNP released for comment
SANParks and the Table Mountain Mountain Bike (TMMTB) Forum have over the past few months been revising the current 2002 cycling Environmental Management Programme (EMP) for the Table Mountain National Park (TMNP). A draft of the revised EMP will be released for public comment on Monday, 4 April on the TMNP and TMMTB Forum websites […]
Ariane Kleinhans: An Epic Retrospective
Ariane Kleinhans takes an emotional look back at her journey to a third-straight Absa Cape Epic title. Just what did it take to stand atop the women’s podium after eight days in the world’s toughest mountain bike race? Freelance writer Jazz Kushke finds out. Nick Muzik/Cape Epic/SPORTZPICS Mountain-bike racing is very much like life – […]