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Trek Factory Racing partners with Today’s Plan

Trek Factory Racing has partnered with Australian tech startup Today’s Plan to provide the team’s training and analytics platform for the 2016 season. The platform will be used by Trek Factory Racing coaches and management to prescribe training to team riders, and analyze their performance data. The system will also provide a communications platform for […]

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2015 Best Bike in Africa results to be announced this Friday

The Best Bike in Africa was held at the 2015 Standard Bank Africa Cycle Fair on 23 – 25 October at St Stithians College, Johannesburg. Bike Hub will announce the bike that will be crowned the Best Bike in Africa for 2015 on Friday 30 October 2015 at 12pm. The winner of the bike will […]

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Bestmed-ASG to cycle for diabetes awareness

With more than three-and-a-half million South Africans affected by diabetes, and many more undiagnosed, Team Bestmed-ASG aim to change lives for the better when they join the Novo Nordisk Cycle 4 Diabetes relay from November 5 to 7. The fourth edition will see four invitational teams of four riders completing a 1 600km journey from […]

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Trail Daze: Jonkershoek rising from the ashes

Early in 2015, the greater Cape Town area lost a few of its flagship trails due to wild fires. One of which was Jonkershoek – a piece of land with immense scenic beauty, and loads of trails for both hikers and mountain bikers. Months of downtime allowed for logging and getting the trails safe again, […]

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Riders in for a treat at FNB Wines2Whales

Lourensford Wine Estate will be a hub of excitement this coming Friday (30 October 2015) when just over 1300 eager mountain bikers toe the line to partake in the FNB Wines2Whales (W2W) Three-Day Mountain Bike (MTB) Adventure. Starting in the Winelands of Somerset West, teams of two riders will cross through (and over) 13 wineries, […]

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SA brings home World Champion at Masters Track Worlds

The 2015 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships took place at Manchester Velodrome, United Kingdom from 3-10 October. South Africa was well represented, bringing home a number of medals and a rainbow Jersey for Ilna Lemmer. Lemmer (60) secured three medals (a gold medal in the Women’s Points Race 60+ category and two bronze medals […]

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Rally star set for W2W hattrick

Rally sensation Ashley Haigh-Smith’s newest challenge will kick off at the end of this week when he takes on all three FNB Wines2Whales (W2W) Three-Day Mountain Bike (MTB) Events. The FNB W2W MTB Adventure will start at the picturesque Lourensford Wine Estate (Somerset West) on Friday, 30 October, followed by the FNB W2W MTB Ride […]

Tech

Introducing Garmin vívosmart HR: a touchscreen activity tracker

Garmin today announced the vívosmart HR, a touchscreen activity tracker with Elevate wrist heart rate technology that provides a full suite of smart notifications. The vívosmart HR features a large sunlight readable display that’s always on. In addition to 24/7 heart rate monitoring, the vívosmart HR counts floors climbed and measures activity intensity. When paired […]

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Africa Cycle Fair 2015: The Mountain Bikes

The Standard Bank Africa Cycle Fair took place this past weekend at St Stithians in Johannesburg. As the biggest showcase of the South Africa cycling industry, Bike Hub were there to cover the products on display. First up are some of the mountain bikes (and a BMX) that were on display. Yeti The Yeti SB6c […]

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Jam at the new Garden Route Trail Park dirt jumps

Dawn Of The Dirt is an opening jam for the new dirt jumps at the Garden Route Trail Park. It will be held on the Sunday but riders can come before and practice the jumps on the Saturday. All riders are welcome, if you can’t ride the dirt jumps there is also a pump track […]

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Video: French Lessons

What makes French mountain bikers so fast? Is it the air? The mountains? The cuisine? Is it the fact that there are about 1,000 varieties of French cheese? Their ability to invade neighbouring countries to shred awesome trails?

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Wolf Tooth Components releases one-by chainrings for Shimano road cranks

That’s right: Wolf Tooth Components’ Drop-Stop one-by chainrings are now available for Dura-Ace, Ultegra, 105, and Tiagra cranks with Shimano’s asymmetric 4x110mm bolt pattern. Beautifully machined from hard-wearing 7075-T6 aluminium, the 110BCD Asymmetric 4-Bolt chainrings take advantage of Wolf Tooth’s patent-pending Drop-Stop® tooth profile for unrivalled chain retention and mud shedding. The 38-44t even-sized chainrings […]