Strauss continues women’s XCO domination, Haw excels in Junior race
Mariske Strauss (Orange Monkey Pro Team) and Bianca Haw (BMC-SA) excelled in their races at the opening round of the Southern African MTB Cup Series, which took place at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, today. After a week of rain and dismal conditions, riders were greeted with very hot and humid weather. Mariske Strauss […]
Strauss and Buys claim Elite titles at African XCO Championships
Durbanville’s Mariske Strauss (Orange Monkey Pro Team) and Pretoria’s Philip Buys (Scott Sports) claimed African Continental Championship titles in the Elite women and men’s mountain bike cross-country categories in the Western Cape today. Racing in the Elite category this year, local rider Mariske Strauss was out at the front right from the get-go, retaining her […]
Booyens to mentor rising MTB star Strauss at Absa Cape Epic
In 2004 a little stage race at the tip of Africa started as a ripple in the mountain biking pond. A few adventurous souls took up the challenge. That year Hanlie Booyens won it with Sharon Laws and Bryan Strauss came 2nd in the master category. His daughter (Mariske) was 13 and rode around the […]
Acknowledging our women cyclists this August: Mariske Strauss
Mariske Strauss remembers trying to ride a bicycle, as she recalls, “When I was a serious spring chicken”. She tried to ride her little BMX bike without the training wheels but could not get it right. Her stubbornness and determination saw her through this ‘rough patch’, and when she saw her father (Bryan) and her […]
Strauss continues World Cup momentum with career-best sixth
The second round of the 2013 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup series took place in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic at the weekend. Continuing her momentum from the previous weekend in Albstadt, Germany where she finished in 8th place, Mariske Strauss put on another solid performance to claim sixth place in the under-23 women’s race in […]
Mariske Strauss heads to the Orange Monkey international mountain bike team
Mariske Strauss who has been racing for Team Contego-Giant for the past three years, has joined up with international mountain bike team, Orange Monkey. Strauss will race for Orange Monkey during the international season. This is the same team her fellow South African Rourke Croeser rides for. She is however not lost for Team Contego-Giant […]
Strauss and Croeser lead the charge for SA in Germany XCO
The town of Albstadt, Germany welcomed mountain bike racers from around the world for the opening round of the 2013 UCI World Cup XCO season at the weekend. Twelve riders represented South Africa with solid representation in the under-23 men category, which had seven competitors. Saturday’s riders were faced with sunny conditions, which turned overnight […]