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Last chance to enter Great Zuurberg Trek
Mountain biking enthusiasts have a final window of opportunity to ride one of the Eastern Cape’s most scenic and diverse stage races before entries for the PwC Great Zuurberg Trek close on Monday. The second edition of the three-day race, which centres around the Zuurberg mountain range just outside Port Elizabeth from May 30, traverses […]
Numbers cap in store for Rainbow Challenge
With the final qualifying event for the inaugural mountain bike Rainbow Challenge completed, organisers may cap the number of entries to safeguard the quality of the event for the veteran and masters age group riders. The Sappi Karkloof Classic was the final qualifying event for the Rainbow Challenge Final. // Image credit: Anthony Grote/Gameplan Media […]
Friendship is key for Hill and Louw at dusi2c
Having formed a close friendship over the past year, defending champion Andrew Hill has chosen to team up with Western Cape star Adriaan Louw for the second edition of the BSi Steel dusi2c that takes riders from Camps Drift in Pietermaritzburg to Blue Lagoon in Durban over two tough days on 21 and 22 June. […]
Podium for Richard Murray in World Triathlon Series, Yokohama
Richard Murray finished third at the ITU World Triathlon Series in Yokohama on Saturday. It was only Murray’s second race in the WTS this season and his best performance after his fifth place in Cape Town a few weeks ago. Photo credit: Delly Carr/ITU Gomez’s won a very close sprint against his fellow Spanish countryman […]
Britain’s Bigham desperate to add rainbow stripes to her sleeve
British national marathon champ Sally Bigham believes she is on the perfect training and preparation track ahead of this year’s UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in Pietermaritzburg and is eager to get her hands on her maiden rainbow striped jersey and world champion title this June. Sally Bigham of Great Britain will arrive in […]
Knox and Evans sew up 10th sani2c
Multiple former winners Kevin Evans and Max Knox combined their firepower to win the 10th Nedbank sani2c mountain bike race that culminated on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast on Saturday. Kevin Evans (left) and Max Knox of FedGroup-Itec celebrate their sixth and third win respectively in the 10th edition of the Nedbank sani2c mountain bike race, […]
Overall leaders hang on despite spills at sani2c
Kevin Evans and Max Knox won a suspense-filled second stage to hang onto their overnight lead at the Nedbank sani2c, which rolled out from Ixopo to Highflats in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday. Overnight leaders Kevin Evans (left) and Max Knox of FedGroup-Itec took their second stage win on day two of the three-day Nedbank sani2c mountain […]
Medals in Malaysia for national track team
South Africa’s track cyclists have collected 9 gold medals, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals in the first two events of three in the South East Asia Grand Prix Series taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 10-16 May 2014. The first event, which was held on 10 and 11 May, saw 18-year-old Joshua Buchel […]
Knox and Evans fire opening salvo at sani2c
Former champions Kevin Evans and Max Knox fired the opening salvo of the 10th annual Nedbank sani2c to take the first stage of the three-day mountain bike race in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday. Multiple former winners Max Knox (left) and Kevin Evans, of FedGroup-Itec Knox and Evans (FedGroup-Itec) led from the start of the 82km stage […]
Trail treat in store for 2014 Howick MTB riders
The popular Sappi Howick MTB Classic is once again set to offer the hundreds expected to head to the KZN Midlands’ event a memorable adventure through the renowned forests and trails of the region when this year’s event takes place on Sunday 1 June. Kim Swart enjoys one of the countless stretches of single track […]
Everybody a winner at Knysna race
One lucky amateur rider in next month’s RECM Knysna 200 mountain bike race could walk away R30 000 richer – and raise an additional R20 000 for sports development – without even stepping onto the winners’ podium, organisers have announced. Amateur riders in the three-day RECM Knysna 200 stand to win R30 000 worth of […]
Steady lead up to MTB Marathon Worlds for Kleinhans
Team RECM rider Erik Kleinhans took some time off, after riding to a respectable eighth place in the 2014 ABSA Cape Epic, to refocus on the upcoming South African Marathon Championships before turning his full attention towards the UCI World Marathon Championships which take place at Cascades MTB Park at the end of June and, […]