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All the event and racing news from the South African cycling scene.
One-day ultra-mountain bike marathon partners with the Malmesbury Fietsryklub
The eighth annual Amarider 100Miler & 50Miler event, presented by Bike Hub takes place on Saturday 21 May 2016 in the Swartland, at the Malmesbury Festival grounds. With less than a month to go, the 100 Miler team is getting all the last details sorted to present a great day of racing. Only pre-entries are […]
Stewart and Dreyer clock fastest times at Masters Marathon Champs
While South Africans celebrated National Worker’s Day today, mountain bikers took to the warmer trails of Cascades MTB Park in KwaZulu-Natal to put in some hard work for the SA MTB Masters Marathon Championship titles on offer for age categories over 30-years-old at the second annual Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival on Sunday 1 May. After extremely […]
Tour de Romandie #5: Merhawi Kudus climbs with the best
Chris Froome (Team Sky) won the 4th stage of the Tour de Romandie, crossing the line a few seconds ahead of Ion Izaguirre (Movistar) and Thibaut Pinot (FDJ). Nairo Quintana (Movistar) was able to retain the overall race lead. After numerous attacks in the first 30km of the 4th Tour de Romandie stage, 11 riders […]
Mud fest tests inner strength of riders at PMB MTB Festival XCO
Austrian National Champion Gregor Raggl (Haibike Otzal Pro Team) and Mariske Strauss (Novus OMX Pro Team) claimed top honours in the Elite races and German Alexander Bunn (Team Firebike Drossiger) and Danielle Strydom (Swiss Cycles) claimed top honours in the Junior races, raking in the highest UCI points on offer at the rain-soaked second annual […]
Combrinck first three-time joBerg2c champ
Nelspruit’s Gawie Combrinck became the first three-time winner of the 900km Old Mutual joBerg2c mountain bike race after placing second alongside teammate Nico Bell on the final stage of 84km between Highflats and Scottburgh in KwaZulu-Natal today. Johann Rabie and HB Kruger of Telkom won the stage – their fourth in total – when they […]
Live stream: Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival 2016 – Day 1
Watch the action live from Day 1 of the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR52FXZ7cuw Event Schedule – 30 April 2016 08:00 Race ‐ XCO Junior Women09:30 Race ‐ XCO Elite Women11:30 Awards Ceremony ‐ XCO Women12:30 Race ‐ XCO Junior Men14:00 Race ‐ XCO Elite Men (Due to weather conditions, the start time has been changed […]
Battling at the back of the pack at Old Mutual joBerg2c
Every rider is a winner when they finish a day at the Old Mutual joBerg2c. But someone still crosses the line last. Every man for himself is not something you’ll hear often at the Old Mutual joBerg2c. In fact, it’s very much the opposite at the country’s longest MTB stage race, where the race organisers […]
The Long and Winding Road (to Rio)
If you’re a local mountain biker with dreams of wearing South African colours at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August, you’re probably not getting much sleep tonight! And if you’re passionate about this sport you’ll likely be feeling the same butterflies as star rider, James Reid. At 2pm tomorrow (Saturday, 30 April) […]
Bell, Combrinck take control of joBerg2c
Nico Bell and Gawie Combrinck took a major step towards sealing the Old Mutual joBerg2c title with another impressive display on the penultimate stage between Ixopo and Highflats in KwaZulu-Natal today. Gawie Combrinck (front) and Nico Bell of NAD Pro lead the eighth stage of the 2016 Old Mutual joBerg2c. Photo: Full Stop Communications The […]
Dutoit Tankwa Trek shifts up a few gears for 2017
The DUTOIT Tankwa Trek international mountain bike stage race is expected to carry International Cycling Union (UCI) grading status in 2017 as the organisers continue to grow the stature of the event, which has fast become a calendar favourite for many of the world’s leading marathon and stage racers. Organisers, Dryland Event Management, have sent […]
Master of Singlespeed heading to Masters Marathon Champ
The 2016 SA MTB Marathon Championships for Masters 30-and-over takes place this year on Sunday 1 May. The event forms part of the second annual Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival, taking place at Cascades MTB Park from 30 April – 2 May. Coming straight to the race from this year’s joBerg2c nine-day stage race is singlespeed enthusiast […]
Lesotho Sky’s Nominate a Mate Campaign winners announced
In April we launched our Nominate a Mate Campaign. Mountain bikers could nominate their friends, good-looking colleagues, superfit parents or mountain-bike legends to win a team entry to Lesotho Sky 2016. As part of the nomination process, people had to tell us why their nominee deserved an entry. We were blown away by all the […]