Kleinhans and Beers win Gravel & Grape Extreme MTB
The third and final stage of the 2017 Gravel & Grape Extreme was a treat for riders as they got to experience an expertly crafted cross-country course early in the stage, and then later rode through two cellars. Not many events throw so many unique aspects into a race, let alone a single stage. With […]
Top teams line up for the Gravel & Grape
The three-day Gravel & Grape mountain bike stage race is only weeks away and some top teams have it firmly in their sights. Leading South African professional Erik Kleinhans has reunited with Matt Beers (Red E-Topeak Ergon) in a combination that will probably start as favourites when the gun goes off for Stage 1 on […]
Heat tests riders on TransCape queen stage
After a rainy opening stage, riders were presented with different conditions today as pace-setters Pieter Seyffert and Travis Walker consolidated their overall lead in the TransCape mountain bike race. Travis Walker (front) and teammate Pieter Seyffert (Ellsworth-ASG) lead the pack on Montagu Pass on the second day of the TransCape mountain bike race. The queen […]
New pro team set the pace at TransCape
Despite wet conditions, Pieter Seyffert and Travis Walker kicked off their new partnership on a perfect note by winning the opening stage of the seven-day TransCape mountain bike race today. The Ellsworth-ASG duo took control early on to cover the tough 80km ride between Knysna and Wilderness in the Western Cape in 3:19:46. Pieter Seyffert […]
Rabie starts joBerg2c title defence safely
Defending champion Johann Rabie and new teammate HB Kruger finished safely in the main pack on the untimed first stage of the 900km Old Mutual joBerg2c mountain bike race today. The nine-day event started at Karan Beef in Heidelberg, Gauteng, and took riders over the Vaal River to finish 116km later in the Free State […]
Williamson fired up for nine-day joBerg2c
Former women’s champion Catherine Williamson has set her sights on the mixed category title at this year’s Old Mutual joBerg2c international mountain bike race that starts on Friday. The versatile Brit, who will ride alongside Johan Labuschagne, said she was fired up for the nine-day event that stretched over 900km from the Highveld town of […]
Former winners Süss and Williamson team up for Cape Epic
Switzerland’s Esther Süss has graced the top step of countless mountain bike podiums over the years, with two Absa Cape Epic wins being foremost among her successes. And Briton Catherine Williamson has similarly savoured victory in the Women’s category of the world’s premier mountain bike stage race. In 2016 they will be riding together in […]
Beukes, Heyns secure dominant Cape Pioneer Trek victory
The seventh edition of the Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race ended on Saturday with South Africans Matthys Beukes and Gert Heyns of SCOTT Factory Racing LCB 1 claiming the overall victory. Switzerland’s Esther Suss and Great Britain’s Catherine Williamson of Sasol Racing claimed the women’s title. Matthys Beukes (left) and Gert Heyns […]
Resurgent Suss & Williamson reclaim Cape Pioneer Trek lead
Switzerland’s former marathon world champion, Esther Suss and her British teammate, Catherine Williamson, of Team Sasol Racing, used the final gruelling climb up the Swartberg Pass to reclaim the lead in the women’s race at the 2015 Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race in South Africa on Thursday. Riders climb the magnficent Swartberg […]
Sasol women seek joBerg2c & sani2c double
Fresh off their victory in the 2015 Old Mutual joBerg2c, Sasol Racing’s Yolande de Villiers and Catherine Williamson have already shifted their focus to a strong showing in the women’s clash of the upcoming Nedbank sani2c which takes place from Glencairn Farm at the base of Sani Pass to Scottburgh Main Beach on KZN’s South […]
Combrinck and Rabie successfully defend joBerg2c title
Defending champions Gawie Combrinck and Johann Rabie swept to their second straight victory in the nine-day Old Mutual joBerg2c at Scottburgh on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast on Saturday. The EAI Cycling duo took half a dozen stage wins, including the final stage, en route to overall honours in the sixth edition of the 900km mountain […]
Champions close in on another joBerg2c title
Defending champions Johann Rabie and Gawie Combrinck delivered another workmanlike performance to all but seal their victory on day six of the Old Mutual joBerg2c near Underberg in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday. The EAI Cycling pair took their fourth consecutive stage win on the 97km route from Nottingham Road to Glencairn Farm in the shadow of […]