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Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival
Schools and Enduro races wrap up long weekend of mountain biking
The third and final day of the 2016 Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival wrapped up a fantastic long weekend of various mountain biking disciplines with the KwaZulu-Natal Schools Challenge and the Enduro events Cascades MTB Park in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday 2 May. Perfect cycling conditions prevailed as young and old traversed the trails on offer. The Sprog […]
Stewart and Dreyer clock fastest times at Masters Marathon Champs
While South Africans celebrated National Worker’s Day today, mountain bikers took to the warmer trails of Cascades MTB Park in KwaZulu-Natal to put in some hard work for the SA MTB Masters Marathon Championship titles on offer for age categories over 30-years-old at the second annual Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival on Sunday 1 May. After extremely […]
Mud fest tests inner strength of riders at PMB MTB Festival XCO
Austrian National Champion Gregor Raggl (Haibike Otzal Pro Team) and Mariske Strauss (Novus OMX Pro Team) claimed top honours in the Elite races and German Alexander Bunn (Team Firebike Drossiger) and Danielle Strydom (Swiss Cycles) claimed top honours in the Junior races, raking in the highest UCI points on offer at the rain-soaked second annual […]
Live stream: Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival 2016 – Day 1
Watch the action live from Day 1 of the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR52FXZ7cuw Event Schedule – 30 April 2016 08:00 Race ‐ XCO Junior Women09:30 Race ‐ XCO Elite Women11:30 Awards Ceremony ‐ XCO Women12:30 Race ‐ XCO Junior Men14:00 Race ‐ XCO Elite Men (Due to weather conditions, the start time has been changed […]
Master of Singlespeed heading to Masters Marathon Champ
The 2016 SA MTB Marathon Championships for Masters 30-and-over takes place this year on Sunday 1 May. The event forms part of the second annual Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival, taking place at Cascades MTB Park from 30 April – 2 May. Coming straight to the race from this year’s joBerg2c nine-day stage race is singlespeed enthusiast […]
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 […]
Van den Heever eager for Junior World Series XCO event
As the end of the month draws nearer, so does the second annual Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival at Cascades MTB Park, taking place this year from Friday 30 April to Monday 2 May. Thrown into the mix of thrilling mountain bike action, is the UCI Junior World Series XCO event, where the young up-and-comers will be […]
Former Springbok swimmer focuses on MTB Marathon Champs
Pietermaritzburg will once again play host to the second annual Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival, taking place this year from Friday 30 April to Monday 2 May. The three-day festival will include an array of exciting cycle races for all levels of riders and included in the mix is the 2016 SA MTB Masters Marathon Championships, which […]
Former Springbok and Sharks player ready for Masters Marathon Champs
Former Springbok and Sharks rugby player, Jeremy Thomson, is eager to race at Cascades MTB Park once again and hopes to feel the same excitement on the bike as he did in 2014 when he tackles the 2016 South African Mountain Bike Masters Marathon Championships on Sunday 1 May. The Championship event forms part of […]
Action-packed schedule of events lined up for PMB MTB Festival
The final weekend of April offers a spectacular array of fantastic mountain bike races this year at the second annual Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival at Cascades MTB Park from 30 April to 2 May 2016. The schedule of events boasts all-important UCI races for Elites and Juniors, the South African National Marathon Masters 30+ Championship, Development […]
Something for everyone at PMB MTB Festival
The legendary Cascades MTB Park will play host to the second annual Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival, providing something for everyone at the world-class from 30 April to 2 May 2016. The three-day mountain bike festival offers a full schedule of races across a variety of disciplines, where some of the country’s – and world’s – great […]
Future of the sport ready to battle it out at District Development Series Finale
The second annual Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival is said to lure not only national, but also international guests with a line up of fantastic not-to-be-missed races at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg from 30 April to 2 May 2016. One of the event highlights and favourite on the Festival line up, is the District Development Series […]