Video: Ride all day – Theo rides the OneForty650 Pascoe
Theo Erlangsen put the Pascoe through its paces on his favourite trails in and around Cape Town: Helderberg Trails, The Trail Park in George and Cascades Manor, Paarl.
Pyga Industries launches the Stage: a new carbon marathon bike with a twist
In late April PYGA INDUSTRIES announced the launch of their first carbon fibre, full suspension marathon bike at the opening of their new Cape Town offices. Dubbed the Stage, the 29″ bike is designed as an out and out race machine, with Pyga’s signature twist on geometry. Says founding partner Pat Morewood: “Longer travel bikes […]
Video: Behind the scenes with Pyga at joBerg2c
Pyga provided bike backup support at this year’s joBerg2c. This meant that if a rider suffered a race ending mechanical, Pyga would pop them onto one of their bikes and send them off to finish the race. Pyga understand that joBerg2c is a massive commitment in terms of time and money, and they take great […]
Video: Pyga Trail Daze 2015
Trail Daze is a weekend of trail riding hosted by the guys from Pyga at the Karkloof Mountain Bike Club and surrounding trails. Check out the video from the 2015 edition of Trail Daze.
First Look: Pyga Stage MX and Plus Five chain line concept
The Pyga Stage MX is the company’s entry into the world of full carbon 29er cross-country / marathon bikes. The Stage MX, though, challenges conventional frame design and cross-country / marathon oriented geometry. Starting with a clean slate they haven’t gone for any new crazy suspension designs. Instead sticking to their tried and tested platform […]
2014 Africa Cycle Fair: Trail Bikes
We were excited to see that the local industry is slowly recognising the demand for longer travel bicycles at the Africa Cycle Fair this year. Along with the increase in trail bikes on display, fair visitors voted for the Pyga Oneforty650 as their Best Bike in Africa, despite an impressive selection of cross-country bikes. We’ve […]
Video: Patrick Morewood on the Pyga Ninetyfive29c Stage
The Ninetyfive29c Stage has been the cause of much anticipation amongst Pyga fans. The company’s first carbon dual suspension bike is designed for cross-country and marathon racing but with a twist. The frame features a slacker head angle, longer top tube and is designed for use with a shorter stem than most XC bikes on […]
Real Review: Rockshox RS1 – The Ab-crunch edition
We put the RockShox RS-1 fork through its ultimate test, an ab-crunch battle. The two competitors, David Mercer (Mercer Bikes) and Mark Hopkins (Pyga), battle for the ultimate glory of being crowned the 2014 African Cycle Fair Ab-crunch Champion. Who will come out top?
User Review: PYGA OneTen29
I promised a while ago that I’d write a full review of the PYGA OneTen29, having given my first thoughts here. What follows are my opinions after about 150km of varied riding. Initial impressions I’d cobbled together everything needed to build the OneTen29 in the two weeks leading up to the Argus, which forced me […]
Review: PYGA OneTwenty 650
The idea behind the PYGA OneTwenty was to make a bike that you can ride just about anywhere, however you like and have fun. It’s not meant to be a marathon or enduro racer or anything as serious as that. But I don’t doubt that you can do exactly that with it while laughing the […]
Africa Cycle Fair: the bikes that stood out
It’s kind of odd that out of all the bikes I rode at the Africa Cycle Fair, the four that stood out fit into two specific categories: full suspension trail and steel hardtails. I guess they are the two types of bikes that were most interesting to me, but they were also the ones that […]