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De Groot on the hunt for Marathon Champs title number four
Current three-time Mountain Bike Marathon National Champion Robyn de Groot (Team Ascendis Health) is looking to defend her title at the third round of the Ashburton Investments National MTB Series – which plays host to the 2016 South African Mountain Bike Marathon Championships in Clarens – from 16-17 April. De Groot retired from road racing […]
Fox announces lightweight 32 Step-Cast fork
Starting at 1,355g, the 32 Step- Cast (SC) fork is our lightest cross- country fork ever. Optimized for 100 mm of travel, the Step-Cast lower leg design and narrow crown spacing save weight while the 32 mm upper tubes maintain FOX ride quality. Features: 15QR x 110 Boost and 15QR x 100 Kabolt axle options […]
Seven Continental MTB Championship gold medals for South Africa
Cross-country specialists Philip Buys and Mariske Strauss and multiple Downhill National Champion Tiaan Odendaal and Kim Westbrook claimed the Elite Men and Women’s Continental Titles in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho last week for the 2016 African Continental Mountain Bike Championships at the Afriski Resort from Tuesday 29 March to Sunday 3 April, where over […]
Loic and Loris at the local
Current UCI Downhill World Champion Loic Bruni and team mate Loris Vergier take to the hills close to our new San Clemente office. The Downhill season is right around the corner! Photo’s / Video – Suspended Productions
Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco #2: Serge Pauwels battles it out with leaders
Mikel Landa (Team Sky) won the 2nd stage of the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco, edging ahead of Wilco Kelderman (LottoNL-Jumbo) as the race finished up the category 2 Amurrio-Baranbio climb. Sergio Henao (Team Sky) completed the stage podium for 3rd place. It was a cold and wet day for the better part of today’s […]
Series Report: Subaru WC XCO Series 2016
I have wanted to ride XCO since I first saw Burry Stander riding in the Olympics in 2012. Never mind that at the time I hadn’t touched a bike since I was nine years old- a trivial detail. To me XCO is the ultimate athletic achievement- it requires above average bike handling skills, strength and […]
Cobweb blasting Freedom Race kick starts RMB Change a Life MTB season
The Marriott Freedom Race that took place in the Valley of a Thousand Hills over the weekend provided Martin Dreyer’s RMB Change a Life MTB Academy riders – who claimed three of the event’s top seven places – with the perfect opportunity to blast away the cobwebs and ready themselves for a busy 2016 schedule. […]
Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka look to Cavendish and Farrar for Scheldeprijs
Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka lines up for its final Flanders classic of the season tomorrow when our African Team start the UCI 1.HC Scheldeprijs in Antwerpen, Belgium. The Scheldeprijs, a spring classic for the sprinters, takes in 208km of the small Flanders roads but the parcours steers clear of the traditional Hellingen climbs. The […]
Woolcock and Lill eying a successful KAP sani2c title defence
After their tumultuous build-up to the 2015 race, the defending champion pair of Waylon Woolcock and Darren Lill are in a far better space going into the 2016 KAP sani2c which should sound the warning sirens for the rest of the elite field contesting the iconic race from 12-14 May. Having been without a sponsor […]
Video: Making carbon rims with South Industries
World of Heroes spent a day with South Industries and went behind the scenes to see how carbon rims are produced.
Qhubeka and loveLife to launch groundbreaker mobility project
Qhubeka and loveLife have signed an MOU for a new programme that will see loveLife youth volunteers mobilised with Qhubeka Buffalo Bicycles. The programme, which will see the first bicycles distributed in July 2016, is aimed at helping the loveLife volunteers, known as groundBREAKERs and mpintshis, to implement community programmes more effectively and efficiently through […]
Rabie teaming up with Kruger for sani2c assault
As the elite athletes start shifting their focus to the upcoming KAP sani2c Johann Rabie and Hendrik Kruger will join forces to take on some of the best MTB single track in the country over the three-day event with eyes on claiming the illustrious title in their first sani2c together when the race finishes in […]