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Adventure and Travel
The joy of exploring by bicycling.
Race Report: SRAM WC XCO Series, in association with Tygerberg MTB Club #2 Rhebokskloof
After record attendance at Round 1 of the SRAM WC XCO series, the show moved onto Paarl for Round 2. Sharing the limelight with the start of the Cape Epic is always tricky for a regional event like the Cross-Country series. Still, a healthy and excitable 200-plus riders turned out to set new heart rate […]
Ride Report: Snow Bike Festival 2019
We all ride our bikes for fun, some on a more serious note than others but we all want to enjoy ourselves to some degree, even if it is just to catch ourselves smiling, for no reason at all! Imagine riding in terrain that you are not familiar with at all, unpredictable surfaces, extreme weather, […]
Race Report: SRAM WC XCO Series, in association with Tygerberg MTB Club #1 Bloemendal
Outside of the Stellenbosch World Cup last year, I don’t think there has ever been a Cross-Country event in the Cape with over 550 entries. Bloemendal was heaving with riders from around the country (and the globe for the Elite categories) as it was the first chance to really test the legs before racing season […]
Tough Enough for the Attakwas
Having become accustomed to racing aboard high-end dual suspension mountain bikes, Oli ‘Pinner’ Munnik accepted a challenge to ride this year’s Attakwas Extreme on a sub R20k alloy hardtail … would he survive?! If you’ve ever ridden the Attakwas Extreme, revered as the ‘Hell of the South’, you’ll know it is more of a survival […]
Sharjah Jonsson vs. the Enduro World Series
As an introduction, I have been riding bikes since the age of five in the Howick forests of KwaZulu-Natal. I started racing XCO at a national level up until 16 also taking on road, time trial, and downhill in those years. In my junior years, I raced enduro and downhill and found myself swaying over […]
Pure Savage Ladies Coronation Double Century round up
One “busy day at work”, the week following the Coronation Double Century in 2017, Mr Savage was trolling through the Racetec results. He was performing a thorough analysis, as an auditor does, and he thought that a Pure Savage Ladies team would be able to podium if they rocked up in 2018 with a goal […]
Pure Savage Coronation Double Century 2018 Race Report
There comes a point in every Coronation Double Century where you question your sanity, especially after seeing the 150km-to-go marker only to realise you’re already down to six soldiers. How did this happen? How did we lose Garth, Stuart, Donald, Sean, Willie and Klyde in such short succession? The DC is basically Christmas for cyclists! […]
Cross is coming
As a mountain biker, the limit of where you can go with your bike is almost endless, from the beautiful beaches of South Africa to the top of almost every mountain. I’m so spoilt to live in the Western Cape where we have some of the best trails in South Africa, stimulated with every type […]
Race Report: Pure Savage One Tonner
The One Tonner has always been a testing ground for the team a month before the Xmas of cycling, the Coronation Double Century. This has meant in the past we have had a full contingent of riders hustling in the start chutes in the last week of October. However, as we have diversified, it turned […]
Ride report: Single track stoke at The U
The third edition of The U mountain bike stage race took place in Piket-Bo-Berg from 19-21 October 2018. Billed as “SA’s Single Track Stage Race”, the relative newcomer is a small boutique event which lives up to the hype. The U is a two and a half day mountain bike stage race which kicks off […]
EWC Round 3 | Jonkershoek
We wrap up the 2018 Enduro Western Cape season with a pearler of a day in Jonkershoek What an end to the season it was. Jonkershoek delivering four amazing stages of racing with the iconic mountain backdrop that could fool you for a second into thinking that you’re somewhere in Europe. The fun and adrenaline […]
Finding mountain biking’s soul at Lesotho Sky
Lesotho is a mountain biking playground. A place you can go to get lost on your bike. But for those with just a week to spare, Lesotho Sky neatly connects some of the best routes and lodges into a unique stage race experience. Help the organisers of Lesotho Sky host an even better event in […]