Reid wins XCO title at African Continental Champs
Trek SA XC racer James Reid opened his 2014 season with a victory in the U23 men’s African Continental Championships on Saturday afternoon in Durbanville, Western Cape. Coming in a strong second place was new recruit, Brendon Davids, also racing for Trek SA, just over 2 minutes apart. “I’m really happy about my first victory […]
Looser, Stewart retain narrow lead on dramatic Cape Pioneer Trek Stage
Team FedGroup Itec’s Brandon Stewart (RSA) and Konny Looser (SUI) lost all but eight seconds of their more-than-five-minute overnight lead, while Asrin Cycling’s James Reid (RSA) and Jens Schuermans (BEL) won a second successive stage on a dramatic Day 4 of the Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek in South Africa on Wednesday. Looser crashed heavily at […]
Reid, Schuermans claim Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek’s Queen stage
South African James Reid and his Belgian teammate, Jen Schuermans of the Asrin Cycling team, claimed the richest stage prize in mountain bike racing on Tuesday when they out-climbed their rivals to win Stage 2 of the Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek in South Africa. The 85km stage (shortened from the original 92km due to a […]
Mix of talent at the pinnacle of mountain bike marathon champs
The annual running of the Cycling SA-MTB Marathon Championships is a draw card for the country’s top endurance off-road cyclists. Induna Adventures in Hazyview played host to this prestigious event, using their annual First Ascent Big Induna race to host not only the championship for the elite class, but to crown age group categories as […]
Privateer: The Start Loop – by James Reid
One of our contributing writers, James Reid, recently spent 5 weeks in Europe racing some top UCI Cat 1 XCO Swiss Cups and German Bundesliga’s. In this piece he describes an opening start loop in an XC race. It’s a great mid-day read, so I suggest making a quick cup of tea and checking it […]