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Highlights: Leogang UCI DHI World Cup 2017
Watch winning runs, replay the race action and get the results from another classic downhill encounter in Austria. On a scorching day in the Austrian Alps, the world’s fastest downhill racers did battle on a do-or-die track in Leogang that demanded of them a mistake-free run at white-knuckle speeds.
Mapstone, Benson master Waterberg Encounter
Rory Mapstone and Rex Benson won their second stage on the trot to take overall honours in the men’s section of the three-day Liberty Waterberg Encounter mountain bike race at Sondela Nature Reserve near Bela-Bela in Limpopo today. The Bestmed Masters team completed the 59km final stage, which included 920m of ascent, in 2:19:52 to […]
Change a Lifers claim historic dusi2c title
An early crash ruled overnight leaders Team TIB out of contention on the final stage of the 2017 dusi2c mountain bike race and opened the door for the RMB Change a Life team of Ndumiso Dontso and Mboneni Ngcobo to held their nerve in a tense three team duel and claim a memorable title on […]
Team TIB taking commanding dusi2c stage one lead
After taking the lead right from the start gun, Team TIB’s Andrew Hill and Henry Liebenberg were too powerful for the rest of the field and rode to an emphatic dusi2c stage one victory on Saturday. The Team TIB duo of Andrew Hill and Henry Liebenberg were in a class of their own as they […]
Knysna Oyster Festival to go ahead as planned
Knysna Tourism has confirmed that the Pick n Pay 2017 Knysna Oyster Festival is going ahead as planned. Speaking on behalf of the sponsors, the Knysna Municipality and the event organisers, board chairperson Elmay Bouwer said that while the Garden Route town suffered extensive damage in this week’s devastating fires, plans for the Festival are […]
KZN XCO Champs heading to Aloe Trails
After an exciting wrap to the 2017 KZNMTB Provincial Cup Series, we are now full-steam-ahead gearing up for the KZNMTB Provincial XCO Championships which will take place this year at Aloe Wildlife Estate in Camperdown, and the province’s top cross-country specialists are gearing up for what’s expected to be a spectacle of mountain bike racing. […]
Course preview: Claudio takes on the Leogang World Cup track
Even Claudio is on a 29er now! But will it make any difference as he takes on the new Leogang course? Watch his course preview with Marcelo Gutierrez now. The builders at Leogang have been busy getting the course ready for the approaching World Cup this weekend, with excavators on the track right up until […]
Exciting fifth dusi2c on the cards for all
The fifth edition of the dusi2c multi-stage mountain bike race sets off from Camps Drift in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday morning bound for the warm Indian Ocean waters at Blue Lagoon, with the big field entered eager to ride the route that mirrors the route of the FNB Dusi Canoe Marathon. Team TIB’s Andrew Hill and […]
New venue offers fresh challenge for Ashburton Investments MTB Series
After a short break, the battle for supremacy in the 2017 Ashburton Investments National MTB Series resumes this weekend at a new venue, Champagne Valley, in KwaZulu-Natal. Located in the Central Drakensberg, Champagne Valley will offer a fresh challenge to all participants at the two-day event. The event will once again follow the new two-day […]
PPA hands over bikes to DARG
When the 2017 Cape Town Cycle Tour was cancelled less than an hour into the event, the Pedal Power Association organised a new 100 km road event to take place the following weekend, giving a few hundred cyclists the opportunity to get rid of some of the energy and fitness accumulated for the Cycle Tour. […]
Fedhealth MTB Challenge welcomes new venue
The beautiful Boschendal Wine Estate has come on board as the new venue for the 2017 Fedhealth MTB Challenge on Saturday, 16 and Sunday, 17 September. Mountain bikers of all ages can look forward to the estate’s spectacular, well-designed mountain bike tracks as well as wholesome family fun and gorgeous scenery. Mountain bikers enjoying the […]
Marais takes overall Series victory, RMB’s Change a Life impresses at final XCO Cup
The third round of the 2017 KZNMTB Provincial Cup Series XCO was hosted at the world-renowned Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg in conjunction with KwaZulu-Natal Sport and Recreation on Saturday 3 June. Stuart Marais claimed the A Batch and overall series victory and the team of the day was without a doubt the RMB Change […]