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Gauteng, Western Cape and KZN riders triumphant at the 2018 Spur Schools MTB Inter-Schools Final
The 10th annual Spur Schools MTB League came to a roaring close at the Inter-Schools Final in Magaliesburg at the weekend. The following schools have been crowned the 2018 League champions: Paul Roos Gimnasium in Western Cape was placed first in the overall men’s winner category, Thomas More college in KwaZulu-Natal was placed first in […]
Spur Steak Ranches commits to further 10-year support of the Spur Schools MTB League
Over the past ten years, mountain biking has become synonymous with Spur in South Africa. Conceptualized in 2008, the Spur Schools Mountain Bike League has developed into South Africa’s premier cycling programme. The announcement that Spur has committed to another ten-year investment as headline sponsor means a massive boost to this popular sport. Spur Corporation’s […]
Beukes and Buys take Spioenkop battle to win Berg & Bush war
As expected, the final skirmish in the Grindrod Bank Berg & Bush Descent was won on the slopes of the historic site of the Battle of Spionekop with the PYGA Euro Steel pair of Matthys Beukes and Philip Buys making the race-deciding break up the steep slopes. Image credit: Berg & Bush. Beukes and Buys […]
Bike battle on at Berg & Bush
The racing is on at this year’s Grindrod Bank Berg & Bush Descent, with some of South Africa’s top stars lining up to fly through the veld for three days; all riders can expect dashing descending and sublime singletrack. The Descent, the first of the three Berg & Bush events, starts this Friday, 5 October, […]
Newly crowned world champion and ex-champion showdown at Cape Pioneer Trek
In less than two weeks the iconic event kicks off with an exciting Mossel Bay Prologue, and the time has finally come to announce some of the names on the highly-anticipated 2018 list of riders. Set to shake the Cape Pioneer stage is a showdown between Alan Hatherly and Matthew Beers. Hatherly and Beers crowned […]
Ariane Lüthi claims third Swiss marathon championship title
On Sunday morning, 30 September, Team Spur’s Ariane Lüthi lined up in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, close to the southern shores of Lake Zurich for the start of the Swiss Marathon Championships. One hundred kilometers – and over 3,700m of climbing – later the Swiss powerhouse came home ahead of compatriot Esther Süss to reclaim her national […]
Sam Hill and Cecile Ravanel crowned 2018 Enduro World Champions
The 2018 Enduro World Series (EWS) finished much as it started, with Cecile Ravanel and Sam Hill as its World Champions. The Bluegrass FinalEnduro powered by SRAM concluded the season in a suitably dramatic fashion in it’s traditional home in Finale Ligure, Italy. Isabeau Courdurier (Intense-Mavic Collective) won the first two stages of the day, […]
The 2019 Absa Cape Epic route announced
From the iconic slopes of Table Mountain’s National Park – to the craggy shoreline of the Southern Coast. And on; traversing the famous Winelands and beyond into the high mountains of the Western Cape. The 2019 Absa Cape Epic route – proudly brought to you by Land Rover, our Official Vehicle and Route Partner – […]
Boyes and Tunstead victorious at the 2018 BUCO Karoo to Coast
The 2018 BUCO Karoo to Coast was won by Craig Boyes and Pauline Tunstead in remarkably different fashions, on Sunday the 23rd of September. Boyes held off his breakaway companions in a sprint for the line, while Tunstead slowly ground down the women’s field on the route’s long climbs of the Prince Alfred’s Pass, between […]
A South African Perspective on the Perskindol Swiss Epic
Matt Eagar was one of the thirty-eight South Africans to start the 2018 Perskindol Swiss Epic. He and his riding partner, Dane Coppin, were fortunate to have received an invite through Absa Pride; after Coppin and his father rode the 2018 Absa Cape Epic as part of the ‘Pride’. Among the excitement of a trip […]
Stage set for spectacular Karoo to Coast
The BUCO Karoo to Coast, 100 kilometre MTB Challenge, is the largest single day mountain bike event in South Africa; attracting 4 500 riders to the sleepy Karoo town of Uniondale annually. This year the event is set to take place on Sunday the 23rd of September and though the focus is on ensuring each […]
Celebrations for Canada, Switzerland at 2018 Swiss Epic
It was a classic scene at the start of the Grand Finale in Zermatt, to anyone who’s ridden a mountain bike stage race before. There was a familiar air of excitement among riders, fans and crew in the race village – the week of racing was coming to a close. However, experienced campaigners are well […]