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Impressive Ride For Young Esterhuizen at Track Worlds
Young KwaZulu-Natal track cycling sensation Bernard Esterhuizen proved why he is one of South Africa’s fastest cycling sprinters on Saturday during the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships that took place in Minsk, Belarus. The London 2012 Olympian, who recently smashed his own national 200-metre sprint record at a UCI World Cup event in Mexico, […]
Toyota Leading The Way To Promote Safe Cycling
Toyota South Africa have put its money where its mouth is by donating R50 000 to the Pedal Power Association in support of the 1,5 meter Safe Cycling campaign. The donation was made during Tuesday’s Super Cycling TV show with cycling legend and TV host Andrew McClean. The message that Toyota, in partnership with the […]
Kleinhans triumphs after ding dong battle with young Olympian Neethling
The technical, rocky battles between Ariane Kleinhans (RE:CM) and Candice Neethling (BMC) promise to be a definite highlight of the MTN National MTB Series. At the MTN Sabie Marathon, on Saturday (23 February), the two of them rode shoulder to shoulder for about 67 kilometres. Racing up and down the slopes of the Drakensberg, they […]
Jubilant Keey pushes home to biggest win of his career at MTN Sabie Classic
Thanks to Charles Keey (Cannondale/Blend Properties) and Nico Bell (Westvaal/Bell Cycles)’s never say die approach to racing the UCI MTN Sabie ultra-race yesterday (23 February) went right down to the wire. The 112 kilometer race was literally decided in the last 100 meters. Keey insured his victory by managing to be the first to race […]
Murray and Van Huyssteen shake up TOTALSPORTS XTERRA SA Champs
Olympian Richard Murray and reigning XTERRA SA champion Carla Van Huyssteen were on fire in Elgin Grabouw (Western Cape) on Sunday, 24 February 2013 at the TOTALSPORTS XTERRA South African Championship presented by REHIDRAT® SPORT completing the 1.5km swim, 27km mountain bike and 11km trail run first in the men’s and women’s category in combined […]
International combo triumphs in Rocky Mountain Garden Route 300
Renay Groustra of South Africa and Daniel Gathof of Germany won the third and final stage of the Rocky Mountain Garden Route 300 mountain bike race in Knysna on Sunday to secure a comfortable overall victory. The Rocky Mountain-RSA Web team’s time of 3:10:11 over the final 80km was two seconds faster than that of […]
Boland riders lead the way in Rocky Mountain Garden Route 300
After almost 100km of pristine forest riding, former champion Timo Cooper and ad hoc partner Adriaan Louw made the decisive move on the final stretch of tar to claim the opening stage of the three-day Rocky Mountain Garden Route 300 in Knysna on Friday. In a day of shifting fortunes, the Bridge riders finally outsprinted […]
Craft gets Rad with WWF at the 2013 Absa Cape Epic!
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) is hitting back at rhino poaching! WWF has partnered with powerful South African creative team Flint Sky Interactive to build Rhino Raid – an interactive computer game aimed at raising awareness and funding for the beloved rhino’s plight. And Craft cycling apparel will be supporting the cause at […]
Specialized launches it’s first Western Cape based Concept Store
Situated at Somerset Mall (Somerset West), Helderberg Cycle World has signed an agreement with leading bicycle manufacturer, Specialized, making it the very first Specialized Concept Store in the Western Cape. Helderberg Cycle World will join Concept Cyclery Burry Stander (Ballito, KZN), Concept Cyclery Melrose Arch (Melrose Arch, Gauteng) and Lynnwood Cyclery (Pretoria) on the list […]
Australia vs. The World FebFifteen Strava Challenge – A call to arms
Our friends at Privateer have put out a call to arms in the #FebFifteen Strava Challenge to represent SA and the rest of the world in a battle against the Aussies. “From Monday, February 25th to Sunday, March 3rd, CyclingTips and Strava are challenging you to lay down a 15 hour week (or more) on […]
Buys finds perfect Cape Epic partner
The South African challenge for 2013 ABSA Cape Epic success received a significant boost on Thursday when it was confirmed that Philip Buys has secured compatriot and friend, Matthys Beukes, to race with him on Team SCOTT at the world’s highest profile mountain bike stage race next month. In a show of selflessness, Beukes’ team, […]
Paraplegic Dane Wilson ready for his second Absa Cape Epic
Dane Wilson (30) will be teaming up with Reuben van Niekerk (28) for this year’s Absa Cape Epic as team Driepoot Toyota. Wilson will be participating in his second Absa Cape Epic. He was the first paraplegic person to successfully complete the race in 2009. Wilson, who works as a project manager for Junk Mail […]