Will big guns Sauser & Kulhavy fire in 2015 Epic?
On paper, Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavy (Investec-Songo-Specialized) will start the 2015 Absa Cape Epic as firm favourites. Switzerland’s Sauser has won the race four times already, while his Czech partner has raced it once before, with Sauser in 2013, when they won convincingly. Sauser won the marathon mountain biking world championship in 2013 while […]
Sauser claims second Attakwas win
It doesn’t matter how many world titles, medals or victories for Christoph Sauser a winning start to the season remains important. The Swiss Master won the 2015 Fairview Attakwas Extreme Mountain Bike Challenge for the second time in three years. Photo: www.oakpics.com Sauser’s winning time for the grueling 121km was 4 hours, 51 minutes and […]
Sauser and Sahm favourites for Attakwas
Will a South African rider be victorious or will it be a hat-trick for foreigners at the 2015 Fairview Attakwas Extreme Mountain Bike Challenge over 121km. The Holy Grail of one day mountain bike races takes place on Saturday. Starting at the Chandelier Game Farm outside Oudtshoorn the race then finishes at Groot Brak. Image […]
Sauser & Looser claim second stage victory at FNB W2W MTB Race
Christoph Sauser and Konny Looser of Team Meerendal-SONGO-Specialized/Wheeler set the course on fire completing Stage Two of the FNB Wines2Whales (W2W) Mountain Bike (MTB) Race that started and finished at Oak Valley Wine Estate (Elgin-Grabouw) on Saturday, 09 November 2014 in a lightning fast time of 02 hours 35 minutes 18 seconds. Christoph Sauser in […]
Sauser and Looser claim Stage One victory at FNB Wines2Whales MTB Race
The best of the best gathered at Lourensford Wine Estate (Somerset West) on Friday, 07 November 2014 to take on the much anticipated FNB Wines2Whales (W2W) Mountain Bike (MTB) Race. Stage One saw riders having to complete a 72km route that included having to trek over the historic Gantouw Pass, the only piece of trail […]
Preview: 2014 Absa Cape Epic
The much-anticipated 2014 Absa Cape Epic begins with a 23km prologue on Sunday and several teams will be hoping to fire the first shot in what promises to be a huge battle among the world’s top riders. Jaroslav Kulhavy and Christoph Sauser make their way through the Meerendal Manor House during the Prologue of the […]
Hattrick of victories for Sauser at songo.info Champions Race
For the third consecutive year Christoph Sauser won the Aramex songo.info Champions Race held in Kayamandi, the township outside Stellenbosch. Lukas Flückiger and Christoph Sauser in action. Photo credit: Outsider Communications Fellow Swiss mountainbikers Lukas Flückiger and Martin Fanger joined Sauser on the winner’s podium. The Aramex songo.info Champions Race is an invitational only mountainbike […]
Big names line up for Aramex songo.info Champions Race
Big names like Christoph Sauser, František Rabon, Erik Kleinhans, Robert Mennen and Lukas Flückiger will all line up for Wednesday’s (19 March) Aramex songo.info Champions Race in Kayamandi. Image credit: songo.info This invitational only mountain bike race through the streets of the Stellenbosch township is a unique experience and only 50 riders will be on […]
Sauser to lead all-star team at Tour de Boland
Multiple mountain bike world champion and four-time Absa Cape Epic winner Christoph Sauser will lead a powerhouse invitational team at the Bestmed Tour de Boland, presented by ASG, early next month. Image credit: Nick Muzik/Cape Epic/SPORTZPICS The four-day road tour, which starts in Franschhoek on March 4, will pit Sauser’s stellar line-up of mountain bikers […]
Sauser to ride with Czech roadie Frantisek Rabon
Four-times winner of the Absa Cape Epic, Christoph Sauser (37) of Switzerland, will team up with Frantisek Rabon (30) for the first time as Team Meerendal-Songo-Specialized. Sauser won the race in 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2006. This year’s race, which takes place from 23 to 30 March 2014, will once again take 1 200 riders […]
Video: Songo.info prodigy Sipho Madolo takes on Wines2Whales with Sauser
Five years ago Christoph Sauser started a charity organisation called Songo.info with the aim of getting kids in Kyamandi on bikes. Sipho Madolo, a promising rider from Songo.info, recently took on the Wines2Whales Race with Sauser. While not quite matching Madolo’s high expectations for the event, the pair claimed a respectable 12th place overall. A […]
Top riders comment on dramatic new Absa Cape Epic route
Both local and international mountain biking enthusiasts will be taking on the demanding eight day Absa Cape Epic of 718km with 14 850m of climbing during next year’s event. With its unexplored landscapes, the stage locations of Robertson, Greyton and Oak Valley Wine estate await the most prestigious mountain bike stage race in the world, […]