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Steady mind set for Asher ahead of SA Para Road Champs
Double UCI World Champion and South African Champion Justine Asher will be part of the admired line-up for the 2016 SA National Para-cycling Road Championships, which take place this year in Wartburg, KwaZulu-Natal, from 10-11 February. The event is expected to pull crowds from around the country to support their favourite South African Road and […]
Team Contego takes aim at mountain biking in 2016
Team Contego, a Western Cape-based mountain bike team, is setting sights on multiple objectives for 2016, including a targeted Cape Epic stage win and developing up-and-coming South African mountain biking talent. Swedish national XCO champion, Calle Friberg (left) and South African Adriaan Louw, will represent Team Contego at the 2016 Absa Cape Epic. Team captain […]
Momentum Grape MTB Ride: Fun cycle for the whole family
Mountain-biking enthusiasts of all ages can look forward to the second Momentum Grape MTB Ride, taking place as part of the 2016 Stellenbosch Wine Festival presented by Pick n Pay. The 17km fun ride is scheduled for Sunday, 7 February, starting and finishing at the festival venue, Coetzenburg sports grounds. The route will wind its […]
Introducing Imbuko Wines – Freewheel Cycology Pro Cycling Team
After a successful 2015 racing season which was capped off with a stage win at the Cape Pioneer Trek, Chris Wolhuter has partnered with Imbuko Wines and Freewheel Cycology to form the Imbuko Wines – Freewheel Cycology Pro Cycling Team. With support from two fantastic sponsors, Wolhuter will race a number of the major stage […]
Mountain bike stars aligned for Meerendal showdown
The 2016 Ashburton Investments National MTB Series, South Africa’s National marathon mountain biking gets underway on Saturday when a number of international stars will line up at Meerendal Wine Estate, near Cape Town. Germany’s four-time Absa Cape Epic winner, Karl Platt, will be joined by Team Bulls teammate,Tim Bohme for the 101km race, which has […]
Team Ascendis Health aiming for Absa Cape Epic success
In 2004 Sweden’s Jennie Stenerhag worked as a volunteer on the first ever Cape Epic. Eleven years later she was standing on the stage race’s podium, having finished second overall in the Women’s category with South African Robyn de Groot. “It is amazing to see how it has grown since the first edition in 2004. […]
Lill and Woolcock seeing red and so does a Rwandan
In recent years the Absa African special jersey has become one of the most sought after in cycling on the continent. The distinctive red jersey is awarded to the first team with both riders from Africa to finish the Absa Cape Epic. In 2015 all-South African pairings finished the overall standings in fifth, sixth and […]
Endura reveals 2016 Cervélo Bigla kit
The Cervélo Bigla Pro Cycling Team today revealed its clothing for the 2016 season as manufactured by new partner Endura. With Cervélo coming on board as a title sponsor through 2018, the updated cooperate identity of the team now includes the bicycle brand’s red colour. “We’re all really excited to partner with Cérvelo-Bigla, the project […]
Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka steps onto first European podium this year
Andre Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) lived up to his pre-race favourite tag and took the win of the opening Challenge Mallorca race. Sam Bennett (Bora Argon 18) was 2nd while we had Edvald Boasson Hagen up there in 3rd place. After Natnael Berhane tried on multiple occasions to get into the early break of the day, eventually […]
Du Toit eager to take on first XCO Provincial
The opening round of the 2016 KZNMTB XCO Provincial is almost upon us, and the province will get to see some of it’s greatest mountain bike names battle it out on some of the best courses KwaZulu-Natal has to offer. The first round takes place in the forests of Hilton at Hilton Christian Fellowship (opposite […]
Berg and Bush tackle KZN drought
One of South Africa’s premier mountain bike events hope to bring rapid relief to desperate KwaZulu-Natal farmers this year with a welcome donation of water tanks. Riders in last year’s Grindrod Bank Berg and Bush were shocked by the serious drought conditions affecting private farms through which they passed, said event founder Gary Green. “Our […]
Statement regarding the 2016 Cape Town Cycle Tour MTB challenge
The Cape Town Cycle Tour Trust is aware of the situation regarding the fires that have raged in and around Stellenbosch over the past week and which have affected farms in the Greater Simonsberg Conservancy, through which the Cape Town Cycle Tour MTB Challenge traditionally passes. We are in close contact with all relevant role […]