Sam Gaze joins Mathieu van der Poel at renamed Alpecin-Fenix on Canyon Bicycles
2020 will begin with a new name but an ongoing partnership for Canyon Bicycles. Alpecin-Fenix is the new name for the Belgian multi-discipline outfit run by visionary brothers Philip and Christoph Roodhooft and based around superstar Mathieu van der Poel, which will compete with a UCI Pro Continental license this season. Mathieu van der Poel […]
Specialized’s Sam Gaze Exits Cape Epic
No one ever wants to leave a race before the race is done. That’s never been truer than today, when Specialized rider, Sam Gaze, announced that he was pulling out from the Absa Cape Epic. A crash that Sam experienced during Stage One of the Epic continues to affect this rider and prompts his early […]
Specialized Riders dominate songo Champions Race
The 2018 songo.info Champions’ Race saw the Specialized Racing team riders, Annika Langvad and Sam Gaze continues their winning streaks from the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. The pair rode to commanding victories on the evening of Wednesday the 14th of March at the charity race in Kayamandi, backing up their wins from Saturday afternoon […]
Bike Check: Sam Gaze’s World Cup winning Specialized S-Works Epic
The titanic battle between former under 23 world champion, Sam Gaze and Nino Schurter at Coetzenburg Stadium on Saturday had us enthralled. Nino is the reigning world champion, and remained nearly unchallenged in 2017, so to see a close and ferociously fought battle unfolding was an unexpected surprise. Here we take a look at the […]
Sauser, Gaze win drama-filled Tankwa Trek queen stage
Swiss mountain bike racing legend, Christoph Sauser and his Investec-Songo-Specialized New Zealand teammate, Sam Gaze, won a drama-filled Stage 2 of the DUTOIT Tankwa Trek in South Africa on Saturday. Germany’s Karl Platt (left) and Switzerland’s Urs Huber of Team Bulls 1 finished second on the stage but retained their overall lead on Stage 2 […]