Prize money, quality confirmed for 2014 Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek
The significant prize money purse as well as the high quality race environment at the 2014 Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek will be unaffected despite the recent decision by Bridge, the event’s title sponsor, to apply for business rescue, according to Race Director, Henco Rademeyer of Dryland Event Management, the company that owns and organises the […]
Coveted Lesotho Sky 2015 entries are open
There has been much talk about the rather ominous yet extremely well reviewed Lesotho Sky recently. After its 4th successful event just a few weeks ago, entries to the event are now open. Event director Darol Howes says “We are excited about opening entries again, it is exciting to see who comes back and which […]
Breedekloof Wine Valley to host brand new mountain bike stage race
The inaugural Gravel and Grape, a three-day mountain bike stage race is taking place from 25 to 27 April 2015. This brand new event on the calendar will take participants through 232km of undiscovered routes in the Breedekloof Wine Valley, which is just one hour from Cape Town, along the N1, and includes Rawsonville, Slanghoek, […]
Absa Cape Epic’s official technology partner, Dimension Data, to sponsor Masters category jersey
The world’s foremost mountain bike stage race announced on Friday that the Dimension Data’s role as a headline sponsor would be extended to sponsoring the jersey. The Masters category is fiercely contested and the sponsorship was immediately welcomed by legendary Dutch mountain biker Bart Brentjens, who won the Masters division in this year’s Absa Cape […]
De Groot and Stenerhag dominate PE-Plett
South African mountain bike marathon champion, Robyn de Groot and Sweden’s national marathon champion, Jennie Stenerhag, combined forces as team Biogen Toyota Cape Brewing Company and dominated the Isuzu Trucks PE-Plett stage race that ended on Tuesday. Biogen Toyota’s South African marathon champion, Robyn de Groot, during Stage 2 of the PE-Plett where she and […]
FNB Wines2Whales welcomes TREAD Buffalo Category
The organizers of the FNB Wines2Whales (W2W) Mountain Bike (MTB) Events are pleased to welcome the TREAD Buffalo Category as an official weight division of the 2014 events. In order to qualify for the TREAD Buffalo Category teams need to boast a minimum combined weight of at least 180kg (excluding bicycles and equipment). “We are […]
Record international field for Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek
Momentum is building for the 2014 Bridge Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race as almost 400 riders from a record 15 countries have secured their entries, with a number of top names confirmed on the start list. The Swartberg Pass, an 11-kilometre, 1100-metre out-of-category climb, will once again be a key feature of […]
Celebrity chef David Higgs to take on Lesotho Sky
The age-old expression, “If it’s too hot then get out of the kitchen” doesn’t ring true for celebrity chef David Higgs, but he will find almost any other excuse to get out on his mountain bike. “It’s my escape, my time to recharge and relax,” says South Africa’s 2013 chef-of-the-year. “I love it, I particularly […]