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All the event and racing news from the South African cycling scene.
Daryl Impey lines up for the Tour de Suisse with ORICA-GreenEDGE
ORICA-GreenEDGE’s Sport Director Laurenzo Lapage previews the upcoming Tour de Suisse as the team fine-tune’s their sprint squad ahead of the 2013 Tour de France. The 2013 Tour de Suisse kicks off tomorrow – Saturday, 8 June 2013 – with an 8.1km individual time trial. Photo credit: Graham Watson ORICA-GreenEDGE Sport Director Laurenzo Lapage Previews […]
Mix of talent at the pinnacle of mountain bike marathon champs
The annual running of the Cycling SA-MTB Marathon Championships is a draw card for the country’s top endurance off-road cyclists. Induna Adventures in Hazyview played host to this prestigious event, using their annual First Ascent Big Induna race to host not only the championship for the elite class, but to crown age group categories as […]
Course fine tuning for Scottburgh MTB Race
Scottburgh – With a big field expected to converge on the South Coast for the long weekend, the course designers have resisted the urge to change the popular format for the Magma Security Scottburgh Mountain Bike race presented by Sappi on Saturday 15 June, and instead have make small alterations designed to enhance the current […]
Cycle Skills & Club Level Coaching Course Scheduled – Durban
Cycling South Africa’s Coaching Commission will be hosting a Cycle Skills & Club Level Coaching Course at the Cyril Geoghegan Cycle Stadium near King’s Park, Durban from Saturday 29 to Sunday 30 June 2013. The course will be presented by Ian Rodger and Roger Bouton, both Level 2 UCI and Cycling SA Coaches. This is […]
Masters Track Cycling Team Selected for World Champs (GBR)
Cycling South Africa’s Track Commission has great pleasure in announcing that the following riders have been selected to participate at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling Masters World Championships in Manchester, England from 6 to 12 October 2013. MEN: 35-39: Morne van Greuning – Sprint; TT Peter Wheeler – Points JP van Tonder – Scratch Mark […]
Evans boosts South Africa’s Maccabi Games medal hopes
Multiple South African cycling champion, Kevin Evans, has been selected to represent the South African team at the 2013 Maccabi Games to be held in Jerusalem next month. Multiple South African champion, Kevin Evans, who races for the FedGroup Itec professional team in South Africa, will boost South Africa’s medal hopes at the 2013 Maccabi […]
Luus and Woolcock aim for RE:CM Knysna 200 win
Fresh from the national marathon championships this past weekend, the cream of South Africa’s mountain bikers will line up for the third edition of the RE:CM Knysna 200 stage race, which starts on the Garden Route on Friday. Lourens Luus (left) and Waylon Woolcock of Team RE:CM hope to continue their solid stage racing form […]
2014 Absa Cape Epic lottery closes
The Absa Cape Epic, now in its eleventh year, is oversubscribed each year with followers doing their bit to gain an entry into the following year’s race. The early bird entries for the 2014 race (whereby a number of entrants get to participate on a first come, first served basis) took place the day after […]
Walkerville MTB Classic to separate men from the boys
The opening kilometres of the Kia Walkerville Mountain Bike Classic, presented by ASG, will separate the men from the boys as riders ascend to the highest point in Southern Gauteng on the morning of July 14. Defending champion Brandon Stewart of FedGroup-Itec connection in action at last year’s Kia Walkerville Mountain Bike Classic. Gauteng’s favourite […]
Reid, De Groot claim SA mountain bike marathon champ titles
Cycling South Africa has crowned the 2013 Mountain bike marathon national champions in perfect Lowveld winter weather conditions at Induna Adventures in Hazyview, Mpumalanga on Saturday. National championship titles were up for grabs across all the age categories, for the main elite event, as well as for the junior, youth, sub veteran, veteran, masters and […]
ISUZU Ride The Rock entries open this week
Entries for the third annual ISUZU Ride the Rock: Cederberg MTB Multi Stage Race will open on Friday, 07 June 2013. Ariane Kleinhans in action at the 2013 ISUZU Ride The Rock. Photo Credit ~ Cherie Vale / NEWSPORT MEDIA Returning to the majestic Cederberg Region the weekend of 07 – 09 February 2014, ISUZU […]
MTN National MTB Series set to wow riders with the addition of new venue Rooiberg
The organizers of mountain bike events often claim that riders will ride where no mountain bike has ever gone before. Mostly it tends to be a slight exaggeration; this in fact will not be so with the MTN Rooiberg Event on 15 June. The MTN Rooiberg event will replace the MTN Mabalingwe event that took […]