Video: Spur Sizzling Skillz – Nutrition
Eating and drinking can be the last things on your mind when you’re racing at full gas around a fast course. Ariane has some tips on how to make it through a race and avoid hitting the wall.
Video: Spur Sizzling Skillz – Bottle Handover
Bottle handovers have become an essential part of lap racing and are fun to practice. Our Five-time Absa Cape Epic winner and Swiss Marathon Champion Ariane Kleinhans relies on Team Spur’s Brent Botha for a seamless and skilful bottle transfer. Watch for a close look at the rules and technique…
Video: Spur Sizzling Skillz – Hopping Pavements
Mountain biking about dealing with whatever the trail throws at you. Successfully getting you and your bike up and over rocks, steps and bumps is an important skill to master. Watch Ariane Kleinhans from Team Spur show you the simple approach to getting over an obstacle, so you can practice on a pavement at home.
Spur Sizzling Skillz – Conquering Climbs
Ariane Kleinhans is known for her climbing powers, and while her incredible fitness gets her to the top quickly, it’s her strong technique that provides the greatest advantage. Let the Swiss Marathon Champion show you how to speed up hills!
Ariane Kleinhans rides away with the Swiss Marathon Champs jersey
A rare moment of indecision darted across Ariane Kleinhans’s face at the start line of the Raid Evolènade, Swiss Marathon Championships in Evolène on Sunday, 19 June. She was puzzling at the grey skies all around her. Should she race with a wind vest or not? Freezing overnight showers had abated for the 10am start, […]
Introducing Spur Sizzling Skillz video series
Ariane Kleinhans and James Reid are helping Spur Schools Mountain Bike League participants sharpen their bike skills. While the Team Spur duo are busy preparing for the Marathon and Cross-country World Champs in Europe, they are also hoping a series of videos they release this week will inspire the next generation of mountain biking superstars […]
Team Spur: Ariane and James gear up for World Championship battles
It has been a month of hard lessons and hard-fought victories spanning both hemispheres for mountain bike stars, Ariane Kleinhans and James Reid of Team Spur. The final local Olympic selection races had our South African XCO Champion, James battling rivals at cruel altitudes and in a variety of harsh conditions throughout April and May. […]
Wolhuter and Boyes seal Winelands Encounter title
Chris Wolhuter and Craig Boyes sealed the overall win after cruising to their third consecutive stage victory in the Liberty Winelands MTB Encounter on Sunday. Chris Wolhuter (left) and Craig Boyes of Imbuko-Freewheel Cycology win the final stage and overall title of the 2016 Liberty Winelands MTB Encounter on Saturday. Photo: Full Stop Communications The […]
Wolhuter, Boyes extend lead at Winelands Encounter
Defending champion Chris Wolhuter and protégé Craig Boyes crushed their rivals on the second day of the Liberty Winelands MTB Encounter to build up a comfortable lead going into Sunday’s grand finale. As they had done on the opening day, the Imbuko-Freewheel Cycology professional team set the pace for most of the way to win […]
Ariane Kleinhans: An Epic Retrospective
Ariane Kleinhans takes an emotional look back at her journey to a third-straight Absa Cape Epic title. Just what did it take to stand atop the women’s podium after eight days in the world’s toughest mountain bike race? Freelance writer Jazz Kushke finds out. Nick Muzik/Cape Epic/SPORTZPICS Mountain-bike racing is very much like life – […]
Emotional third Absa Cape Epic title for Kleinhans and Langvad
After an intriguing week’s racing in the Sasol Women’s category, Ariane Kleinhans and Annika Langvad are now three-time Absa Cape Epic champions; the Swiss-Danish duo joining Karl Platt (who earlier on Sunday won his fifth title) and Stefan Sahm as three-time champion pairings. Team Spur Specialized’s Ariane Kleinhans and Annika Langvad on their way to […]
Bikes of the Epic: Ariane Kleinhans’ Specialized S-Works Era
This year leading lady Ariane Kleinhans is riding on the female specific Specialized Era after riding the men’s variant for some time. The key difference compared to the brother bike, the Epic, lies in the frame geometry and contact points. The Era features a lower standover height and shorter reach, said to provide a better […]