Three-time National Champion ready for 2015 Stihl SA DHI Cup #2
The second round of the 2015 SA Stihl MTB DHI Cup takes place at Cascades MTB Park, in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday 5 April. With the right race attitude, and a phenomenal support base, the three-time National Champion and National Cup Series winner, Tiaan Odendaal, is all systems go for this event, and ready to do […]
Spur KZN Schools MTB series event #2 part of Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival
The second round of the Spur KZN Schools MTB Series takes place at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg on Friday 3 April 2015. The series will be part of the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival, taking place over that Easter weekend. The series targets primary to high school students who show a keen interest in mountain biking […]
Local stars look to sparkle at Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival
Many of South Africa’s top mountain biking stars including Olympian Philip Buys and national champion Rourke Croeser will be hoping to overcome the physical effects of the ABSA Cape Epic in time for the approaching HC category cross country event that takes place at the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival at Cascades MTB Park on Saturday 4 […]
Swedish National Champ eyes out strong PMB MTB Festival showing
Swedish National Champion Emil Lindgren has confirmed he will tackle Pietermaritzburg Mountain Bike Festival’s HC category cross country race in the hope of securing crucial UCI points ahead of next year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The PMB MTB Festival takes place at Cascades MTB Park from 3-5 April and will host a multitude […]
Pietermaritzburg gears up for Easter mountain biking fiesta
Africa’s Bike City and KwaZulu-Natal’s capital is set to play host to a frenzy of mountain biking activity this Easter as the Pietermaritzburg Mountain Bike Festival welcomes top elite competitors and local cycling enthusiasts alike to Cascades MTB Park from 3-5 April. After playing host to four UCI MTB World Cup legs and the 2013 […]
UCI MTB Marathon World Champs show off PMB’s best assets
Having established himself as one of the top cross country mountain bike course designers globally, Nick Floros will return to something that is very familiar to him when he patches together a route that will take the world’s best mountain bike marathon riders through some of the more scenic terrain of Kwazulu-Natal when the UCI […]
Southern African MTB Cup Series opening round this weekend at Cascades
The opening round of the 2014 Southern African Mountain Bike Cup Series kicks off in Pietermaritzburg, at Cascades Mountain Bike Park, on 15 and 16 March. Wet and cold conditions have prevailed throughout the week leading up to the event, and the host province is hoping that the rain stays at bay for the weekend’s […]
Cascades Trials course makes long awaited debut
The time finally arrived for the Cascades MTB Park’s Trials course to invite its first riders on Wednesday as the juniors and the men’s 20” took on the challenging course as they went through qualifying phases ahead of their respective semi-finals that will take place on Friday afternoon and evening. Slovakian representative Martin Behro makes […]
Stage set for elite MTB & Trials Worlds
After months of anticipation and preparation, organisers, participants, officials and spectators alike are counting down the hours to the start of the action of the UCI MTB & Trials World Championships on Tuesday 27 August. South Africa Greg Minnaar will look to build on his 2012 victory when he races on home soil at the […]
Masters cross country riders set the bar for World Champs
The opening day of competition at the UCI MTB Masters World Championships at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg was one of great success for the local cross country riders as no less than twelve of the twenty-four medals available throughout the day went to South Africans. Linus van Onselen (men 60-64), Gjertrud Bø (women 50-59), […]
Masters World Champs cross country course receives late safety tweak
After a day of high drama on Wednesday’s opening day of the 2013 UCI MTB Masters World Championships, local event organisers together with the International Cycling Union (UCI) have decided to exclude a short, tricky section of the masters cross country course due to safety concerns. South African national champion Chris Brand eases his way […]
It’s never too late for a World Champs
Having the UCI MTB Masters World Championships at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa is an opportunity of a lifetime for many of the local cycling fraternity and was something that the two oldest competitors, Michael Smith and Frances Marsburg, were not prepared to miss. 59 year old Kloof local Frances Marsburg is the […]