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MTB Masters World Champs Cross Country course receives significant remodelling
Pietermaritzburg – The cross country course for the UCI MTB Masters World Championships at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg has been given a dramatic facelift after the route was recently made shorter, steeper and more technical. Nick Floros, cross country course designer and manager on the newly altered UCI MTB Masters World Championships course. The […]
Race report: BC Bike Race – Day 2
The BC Bike Race takes Canada Day Seriously and showed the world through it’s international riders what they Canadian’s have to be proud about. A trail network that seems boundless. Day Two of the BC Bike Race Presented by CLIF Bar rolled into the town of Campbell River with its merry travelers after an early […]
High MTB World Champs hopes for Croeser
Leading South African Under 23 cross country mountain biker Rourke Croeser has set his sights on a stellar performance during the 2013 UCI MTB & Trials World Championships at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg from 26 August-1 September as he looks to make full use of his wealth of international racing experience as well as […]
Impey second on Tour de France GC after Stage 4 TTT
South African Daryl Impey, racing for the ORICA-GreenEDGE pro cycling team, is placed second on the Tour de France General Classification (GC) after yesterday’s thrilling fourth stage 25km Team Time Trial in Nice. Photo credit: Graham Watson ORICA-GreenEDGE won the TTT by 75 hundredths of a second ahead of Omega Pharma-Quickstep, placing Impey’s teammate Simon […]
Hayterdale Trails (PE) primed for Mountain Bike National Champs
Port Elizabeth is set to welcome a flood of cross-country and downhill specialists as they descend on the Hayterdale Trails at the base of the Zuurberg Pass near Addo for the 2013 Cycling SA-MTB National Championships, powered by Frontier Events on 20 and 21 July. Image source: www.mountainevents.co.za Mountain bike fever is at an all […]
Simon Gerrans Delivers First Tour de France Stage Win for ORICA-GreenEDGE
Simon Gerrans made history as the first Australian to win a stage at each of the three Grand Tours. He delivered the first WorldTour victory for the first Australian WorldTour team when he won the Tour Down Under overall last year. Gerrans continued his history-setting ways in Calvi with a win on the third stage […]
Van Huyssteen prepares for Totalsports XTERRA PEZULA debut
Reigning Totalsports XTERRA SA Champion Carla Van Huyssteen is excited to take part in her first XTERRA race that does not feature a water discipline. Taking place on Thursday, 04 July 2013 the Totalsports XTERRA PEZULA presented by REHIDRAT® SPORT will feature a run, bike, run format. Carla Van Huyssteen during the TOTALSPORTS XTERRA Buffelspoort […]
White overcomes poor start to claim maiden national singlespeed title
Former professional road cyclist, Nic White, raced to his first ever South African title at the weekend when he overcame a delayed start to win the 2013 South African Singlespeed Mountain Bike Championships, held near Hilton in KwaZulu-Natal. Nic White, 2013 South African Singlespeed Mountain Bike Champion. Photo: Front Row Photography The 39-year-old White, who […]
Race report: BC Bike Race – Day 1
“Tropical hot!” weather has smothered the racers on the opening day of the 2013 BC Bike Race Presented by Harbour Air, BC Ferries and Shimano. With temperatures pushing 28 celcius (90º) and the humidity soaring, race co-founder Dean Payne describes day one of the BCBR as the hottest and most humid on record. “The past […]
National MTB Cup Series wraps up at Mankele
Cycling South Africa’s MTB National Cup Series wrapped up at Mankele Mountain Bike Park last weekend, with Olympians Candice Neethling and Philip Buys securing victory in the Pro-elite women and men’s races respectively. Timothy Bentley and Nadia Botha posted the fastest descents on the downhill track to take top honours on the day. The 2013 […]
Pietermaritzburg secures MTB World Cup opener in 2014
The UCI (International Cycling Union) released the 2014 Mountain Bike World Cup calendar last week and Pietermaritzburg returns as the opening round for the global cross-country and downhill season from 5-6 April. New to the World Cup line up for the South African leg is the cross-country eliminator (XCE), which features as part of this […]
Smit sweeps student cycling champs in PE
Second-year law student Willie Smit swept to a convincing victory in the three-day Bestmed USSA national cycling championships in Port Elizabeth on Friday. Overall winner Willie Smit leads Shukuma-NMMU’s Waldo Gronum and Marinus Prinsloo during the fifth and final stage of the Bestmed USSA national student cycling championships in Port Elizabeth on Friday. Photo: Coetzee […]