Kate Courtney and Lars Forster join SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing
The SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing team is planning its future towards the next Olympics with quite significant changes. Both Kate Courtney and Lars Forster, two extraordinary athletes, join the team. Two riders remain from the past years, Olympic and World Champion Nino Schurter as well as Andri Frischknecht. Matthias Stirnemann (SUI) and Michiel van der Heijden […]
Schurter, Stirnemann win 2017 Absa Cape Epic
There was a second stage win for the SCOTT-SRAM Young Guns of Michiel van der Heijden and Andri Frischknecht at the Grand Finale of the 2017 Absa Cape Epic, but the crowds at Val de Vie in Paarl had lined up to watch Olympic champion Nino Schurter and partner Matthias Stirnemann claim their maiden Absa […]
South African Knox on Absa Cape Epic podium as SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing extend lead
The Olympic and world mountain bike champion Nino Schurter (SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing) continued his march towards a first Absa Cape Epic title with another stage win at the 2017 event. Nino Schurter and Matthias Stirnemann of Scott SRAM MTB Racing during stage 6 of the 2017 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race from Oak […]
Gear Check: SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing’s Epic essentials
With much of the gear focus on Bikes of the Epic we decided to take a look at a different aspect of the racing. Just what do the professionals take with them on the bike? And how do they store their spares? Team SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing let us into their camp to reveal what they […]
Interview: Nino Schurter
Three-time Olympic medallist, and XCO World Champion, to name but a few titles, Nino Schurter is the face of international cross country racing. He is in South Africa to race the Absa Cape Epic with teammate Matthias Stirnemann of the Scott-Sram MTB Racing Team. We caught up with him in Stellenbosch to find out about […]