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Hoffman and Willeit race to victory at Cycle4Cansa
Team ENZA/PBC captain, Nolan Hoffman, sprinted to a convincing bunch victory at the Bestmed Cycle4CANSA, which was presented by the Optimum Group at Sun City today. Hoffman started his gallop very early but had enough endurance sprinting power to stay ahead to the line. Tyler Day finished in second and Josh van Wyk rounded off […]
Marais and Hearder claim Mandela Day MTB Dash wins
It was sixth time lucky for Howick mountain biker Stuart Marais when he finally got the win he so desperately wanted at the Mandela Day MTB Dash race on Saturday. Runners up Andrew Hill (left), race winner Stuart Marais (centre) and third-placed Tyronne White after their battle for the 42km men’s title at the Mandela […]
Campenaerts signs with Team NTT
We are delighted to announce that Belgian star Victor Campenaerts will join our team in 2020 in what is a marquee addition, as we rebrand to Team NTT. The Team will complete the 2019 season under the Dimension Data brand and rebrand to wear the colours of NTT for the start of the 2020 season. […]
Uncle Fish Best Suited to Damp Trans Baviaans Repeat
Gawie Combrinck and Gerrit de Vries, riding as the aptly named Uncle Fish team overcame damp conditions to win a very challenging Trans Baviaans Repeat; on Saturday, 17 August. The second event in the 2019 Trans Baviaans stable, which followed the same 230 kilometre course from Willowmore to Jeffery’s Bay, was contested in testing weather. […]
HotChillee Announce New Route for Rainmaker RollerCoaster 2019
Cape Town, South Africa, 16 August 2019 – The second edition of the Rainmaker RollerCoaster will take place in the Western Cape this October, covering over 500km of farm trails and gravel roads between Swellendam and Plettenburg Bay. HotChillee, the event organisers and group behind the renowned LONDON-PARIS and Cape Rouleur, have updated the route […]
Rissveds hits back for emotional win as Van der Poel triumphs again
Olympic XCO champion Jenny Rissveds secured an emotional UCI Mountain Bike World Cup victory in Lenzerheide after her return from depression as Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel scored his third men’s win of the 2019 season. Jenny Rissveds Rissveds crashed early on as Swiss hope Jolanda Neff and Anne Terpstra of the Netherlands swapped the […]
Pierron and Cabirou bank Swiss wins
French pair Amaury Pierron and Marine Cabirou won the UCI MTB World Cup downhill races in tricky Lenzerheide conditions to take the men’s and women’s titles down to the final USA race. Brook MacDonald. Saturday’s weather conditions were extremely testing with the women getting the worst of the rain and fog early on as Kiwi […]
dormakaba and Galileo Risk Win the Trans Baviaans Race
The 2019 Trans Baviaans, which took place in the Eastern Cape on Saturday 10 August, was won by the dormakaba and Galileo Risk teams. They and their fellow competitors in the Trans Baviaans Race, the first of two events, had to brave the roughest conditions in years on the traverse through the Baviaanskloof. Floods in […]
Celebrating the 10th Staalwater mountain bike event at The Caledon
Three distances are on offer for mountain bikers on the 17th of August, as well as two trail run distances, to complete an outdoor day in the beautiful Overberg from The Caledon Hotel & Spa – conveniently located only an hour’s drive from Cape Town with panoramic views of the Klein Swartberg Mountains. With choices […]
Prevot and Van Der Poel triumph in Val Di Sole
France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prevot and Holland’s Mathieu Van Der Poel took their respective elite category wins at the fifth round of the Mercedes-Benz UCI World Cup in Val Di Sole, Italy. The XCO track near Trento has featured on the international calendar for many years but the 2019 incarnation was perhaps the toughest yet. Climbs had […]
Cabirou and Greenland score historic firsts in Italy
France’s Marine Cabirou and Britain’s Laurie Greenland scored a pair of debut victories at a scorching hot fifth round of the Mercedes-Benz UCI DH World Cup in Val Di Sole, Italy. The downhill track in this northern corner of Italy is known as The Black Snake and it is famously brutal. It begins with fast, […]
Trek Bicycles announce first concept store in Africa, Arch Cycles
Trek Bicycle announced that its first Concept Store in Africa, Arch Cycles, opened its doors to the public on 1 August 2019 with a Grand Opening Event. The family-friendly store is located in Melrose Arch Johannesburg, one of South Africa’s premier shopping precincts. It will provide area residents with a full-service bike shop and access […]