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All the event and racing news from the South African cycling scene.
All Systems Go for 2012 MTB World Cup
Ticket sales are open and selling fast for the RockyRoads UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Pietermaritzburg, to be held at the Cascades Mountain Bike Park in less than two months. Officials are on track to complete renovations to the world-famous facility well in time to be able to welcome the world’s best downhill and cross-country […]
Level 1 Cycling Coach Course Scheduled for Johannesburg in February
It may sound easy being a cycling coach, but this demanding position takes an immense amount of commitment. Cycling South Africa’s Coaching Commission is extending their interactive and highly informative coaching courses to Gauteng, where they will be hosting a Level 1 Coaching Course from Friday 17th – Sunday 19th February 2012. Candidates of a […]
Stewart back to tame Addo
Returning mountain bike champion Brandon Stewart and team-mate Jacques Rossouw are set to resume their ongoing battle with Kevin Evans and David George at The Herald VW Cycle Tour in Addo just outside Port Elizabeth on Saturday, February 4. Riding in the colours of Team FedGroup-Itec Connect, former South African cross-country champions Stewart and Rossouw […]
Stander sets sights on Olympic medal
Virtually everything Burry Stander does between now and August will be part of his preparation to try and win an Olympic Games medal. The 24-year-old multiple South African and African mountain bike champion is one of a handful of South African athletes tipped to be in with a very good shot at a podium place […]
KZN Road Champs Voted ‘Best Ever’ Road Championship
The KwaZulu-Natal provincial Road Cycling Championships, held in Durban and Westville at the weekend, has been hailed by participants as arguably the best ever Provincial or National championship they have ever ridden. On Saturday the 21st January, the Time Trial was held on a circuit around the Durban Country Club. The course measured up to […]
Podium clean sweep as Team Bonitas tame the Cape Cobra
South African road cycling champion, Darren Lill, started the year off on a perfect note when he led his Bonitas professional team to a podium clean sweep at the 85km Cycle Lab Cape Cobra Challenge in Cape Town on Sunday. The 29-year-old specialist climber was in peak form and in his element on the hilly […]
Bigger team, expanded race programme for Ream RE:CM in 2012
Following a dream debut year in 2011, Team RE:CM, the South African-based professional mountain bike racing team, will tackle 2012 with a bigger team and a more ambitious racing schedule that includes some of the world’s most significant events. This was announced as the team was introduced to media, sponsors and key industry figures in […]
EC’s richest race delivers the goods
With a R100 000 winners’ purse and lucky draw prizes valued at almost a quarter of a million rand, The Herald VW Cycle Tour is officially the Eastern Cape’s richest cycle race. The 27th edition of the national classic, which takes place in Addo and Port Elizabeth on February 4 and 5, will once again […]
New Berg2c gives riders a break
Mountain bikers who find South Africa’s longest paired mountain bike race a bridge too far, may want to consider the exciting six-day derivative announced by the organisers of the nine-day Old Mutual joBerg2c today. The new Old Mutual Berg2c starts on April 30, four days into the main event, and picks up the existing route […]
Team Bonitas adds depth for 2012
The addition of Herman Fouche and Ian McLeod has bolstered the depth of Team Bonitas professional road cycling team for 2012, a year that will see the top South African outfit continue to grow its international racing footprint with an expanded European programme. Fouche is one of South Africa’s best sprinters and he’ll form a […]