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Big Week as Team Bonitas cleans up Garden Route Race Podiums
9 July 2012 – The 2012 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour winner, Tyler Day, made a welcome return to the top of a podium to give Team Bonitas a clean sweep of Garden Route road cycling events when he won the 2012 Pick n Pay Weekend Argus Knysna Festival event on Sunday. The […]
Lill gives Team Bonitas first Mountain Bike Race Win
9 July 2011 – With most of the country’s top marathon racers on the start line, Darren Lill’s victory in the 80km mountain bike event at the Pick n Pay Weekend Argus Knysna Festival was a surprise to all but Lill. It was also the first major mountain bike race victory for a Team Bonitas […]
Momentum Toyota Riders shine at World’s Top Stage Race
Reigning national champion, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, became the first South African to finish in the top 10 at the Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile, women’s road cycling’s toughest stage race. The 26-year-old, who rides for the Momentum Toyota team in South Africa, claimed 10th place in the final classification after nine tough days of racing in […]
Van Dyk Closing in On Paralympic Goals at Canadian World Cup
08 July 2012 – 2011 hand cycling road race world champion Ernst van Dyk competed in the 3rd and final leg of the UCI Para-cycling World Cup series in Baie-Comeau, Canada on Friday and Saturday. The venue of the World Championships in 2010 and the World Cup final in 2011, the Canadian city in the […]
Dodd Continues Momentum at BMX Nationals, O’Keeffe Back On Home Turf
06 July 2012 – There was plenty of excitement and action on a sublimely fast track at the 3rd and 4th Legs of the BMX SA Grand National series at Giba Gorge BMX track near Pinetown in KwaZulu-Natal on 30th June and 1st July. The weekend ran like clockwork and consisted of Leg 3 on […]
Nedgroup Life Partners with Tread MTB Skills Clinics
Nedbank’s Life Insurance Company – Nedgroup Life, has increased its investment in mountain biking by adding its support as the presenting partner for TREAD Mountain Bike Skills Clinics. The partnership has taken effect from July 2012. Mountain biking is one of South Africa’s most popular participation sports and forms of recreational exercise, attracting both genders […]
Inside Story: All Going To Plan Following SA MTB Athletes’ USA Success
05 July 2012 – South African cross-country Olympian mountain biker Burry Stander rode a calculated cross-country race on Saturday to claim victory at the sixth round of the RockyRoads UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Windham, New York. The elite men’s race was always going to be an openly contested affair with the absence of […]
Team Bonitas rider one of SA Sport’s Top 100 Most Influential
Luthando Kaka, a member of Team Bonitas professional road cycling team, has been selected by the Department of Sport and Recreation as one of the top 100 most influential sports people in South Africa during 2011. Kaka, the first black South African cyclist to secure a full-time professional contract with a leading commercial team, had […]
SWD Cyclists excels in Oudtshoorn Youth Festival
The SWD cyclists performed exceptionally well during the festival and managed to bag 50 podium positions, 16 gold, 22 silver and 12 bronze. The event’s focus was however not about the individual rider but rather on team participation with provinces entering teams. The teams had to be of a specific compilation, depending to the age […]
Mankele MTB Park Gearing for National XCO and DHI Championships
02 July 2012 – Mankele Mountain Bike Park, situated near Sudwala Caves on the outskirts of Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, is preparing to host the SA National cross-country and downhill championships on 21st and 22nd July. With the Olympics just around the corner and with mountain biking holding a trump medal card in the form of Burry […]
Pedalling to support social upliftment: cyclists challenged and inspired at Grindrod Bank Umngazi Pondo Pedal 2012
The Grindrod Bank Umngazi Pondo Pedal race, held annually in June, has in just two years become a popular fixture on the mountain biking calendar. Billed as the epitome of purist Mountain biking, what truly sets this event apart is that it is a race with heart. In the 2012 edition, 110 cyclists completed a […]
Stander wins World Cup race in USA
South Africa’s hopes of an Olympic medal in mountain biking received a timely boost when Burry Stander (Specialized/USN) claimed victory in a dramatic Round 6 of the UCI Olympic Cross-country (XCO) World Cup in Windham, New York on Saturday. Stander, currently eighth on the International Cycling Union world rankings, has been touted as a likely […]