Brand new bike, brand new attitude for Strauss ahead of PMB MTB Festival
South Africa’s greatest Elite Cross-country mountain bike warriors will head to KwaZulu-Natal this week to take part in the UCI HC Category event at Cascades MTB Park on Saturday 30 April and included in the line up is 2016 Elite Women’s African Continental MTB XCO Champion, Mariske Strauss. The all-important race offers valuable UCI points […]
Seven Continental MTB Championship gold medals for South Africa
Cross-country specialists Philip Buys and Mariske Strauss and multiple Downhill National Champion Tiaan Odendaal and Kim Westbrook claimed the Elite Men and Women’s Continental Titles in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho last week for the 2016 African Continental Mountain Bike Championships at the Afriski Resort from Tuesday 29 March to Sunday 3 April, where over […]
Last and Strauss start season at Sunshine Cup
The team first entered the Cyprus Sunshine Cup back in 2006, with the now manager, Paul Beales, racing alongside co-founder, Will Cooper. A lot has changed since then! A decade later Novus OMX Pro Team returned to Cyprus as a UCI Elite Team with World-class riders, Annie Last and Mariske Strauss. The Sunshine Cup has […]
Hill2Hill to firm up ROAG Series standings
The Sunday Tribune Jeep Hill2Hill mountain bike marathon forms the penultimate leg of the 2015 Quattro ROAG Series and has ensured that the series’ ‘big three’ and the country’s top ultra-marathoners go head to head for the prestigious event’s spoils. TIB Insurance’s Andrew Hill will hope to fend off a strong men’s field at this […]
Strauss in doubt ahead of SA XCO Champs
It is a race against the clock for defending elite women’s South African Cross Country Champion Mariske Strauss who is still recovering from a serious ankle injury as she fights to be ready for the Stihl SA MTB Championships presented by Subaru Cape Town/Novus Holdings in Stellenbosch on Saturday 18 July. It has been a […]
Strauss and Hatherly claim XCO victories at Mankele Cup
With one of the largest fields of the series so far (over 150 online pre entries) the third round of the 2015 Stihl SA MTB Cup Series took place at Mankele MTB Park in Mpumalanga on Saturday 25 April, and proved once again how unpredictable the cross-country discipline can be. The Men and Women’s Elite […]
Haimy and Degn master PMB XCO in tricky conditions
After overnight rain, tricky conditions tested the elite men and women in the cross country races at the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival on Saturday, with Israel’s Shlomi Haimy claiming the men’s victory and Denmark’s Malene Degn racing to a dominating win in the women’s race. The 30-plus age categories and women’s elite race helped settle the […]
SA team announcement for MTB African Champs (RWA)
Cycling South Africa’s Mountain Bike Commission has great pleasure in announcing that the following riders have been selected to represent South Africa at the 2015 African Mountain Bike Continental Championships in Musanze, Rwanda, from 8-10 May. The following riders have been selected according to the 2015 CSA-MTB Selection Criteria. Cross-country (XCO) ELITE Philip Buys Matthys […]
Beukes and Strauss claim XCO spoils in round 2
The second round of the 2015 Stihl SA MTB Cup XCO took place at Voortrekker Monument, Gauteng, on Saturday 28 March. With 50 Elite Men and 11 Elite Women competing, this event had one of the largest Elite fields in a long time. The winner of the Elite Men’s race was Matthys Beukes (Scott Factory […]
Beauty to bring the Beast at XCO National Cup #2, Gauteng
A week after completing the Absa Cape Epic, Mariske Strauss is back on the bike for her first XCO National this year. She will be competing in the second round of the Stihl 2015 SA XCO Cup Series at Voortrekker Monument in Gauteng on Saturday 28 March. The OMX Pro Team rider and lover of […]
Mariske Strauss wins national women’s cross-country title at Thaba Trails, Gauteng
Mariske Strauss (Orange Monkey Pro Team) put in a dominant performance to claim the 2014 South African Cross-country National Championship Elite women’s title in a time of 1 hour 35 minutes and 35 seconds on a challenging and technical course at Thaba Trails in Gauteng today. The Elite women completed 5 laps of the 4.5km […]
Reid, Strauss and Odendaal claim Elite MTB races in Lesotho
Afriski Ski and Mountain Resort in Lesotho hosted the second round of the 2014 Southern African Mountain Bike Cup Series, on 19 and 20 April. South African, and some international riders, competed for UCI category points in the cross-country and downhill disciplines, which were UCI category 1 for the Elite Men and Elite Women, and […]