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 […]
Buys beats the bunch to win the fifth and final Nissan TrailSeeker event
Philip Buys (Scott) kept his word on Saturday when he won the Nissan TrailSeeker Down and Dirty Marathon, the fifth and final event in the immensely popular Gauteng based Nissan TrailSeeker Series held in Centurion. Last week Buys was still in two minds on whether or not he would be racing. “My body took quite […]
Buys, Beukes strike first blow at Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek
Philip Buys and Matthys Beukes (SCOTT Factory Racing) lived up to their billing as stage favourites when they stormed to victory on the Prologue of the 2013 Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race, which started in South Africa’s Western Cape province on Sunday. The pair of 25-year-old South Africans clocked a time […]
Buys, Beukes primed for Cape Pioneer Trek onslaught
Philip Buys and Matthys Beukes tasted early stage-race success as the SCOTT Factory Racing team at the ABSA Cape Epic in April; and they’re hungry for more ahead of the 2013 Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek, which starts in South Africa’s Western Cape province on Sunday, 20 October. Image credit: Nick Muzik Buys, the current Elite […]
Philip Buys set to race for Burry Stander legacy at World Champs
Olympian Philip Buys is out to prove a point at the UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships at the Cascades MTB Park starting on 26 August, and eager to ensure that his performance does justice to the late Burry Stander. Philip Buys will spearhead the South African men’s challenge at the UCI Mountain Bike […]