SA MTB Team touches base ahead of Continental Champs (RWA)
The 2015 African Mountain Bike Continental Championships takes place in Musanze, Rwanda, from 8-10 May. The South African Mountain Bike XCO team is ready and excited to race this weekend. Members of the team talk about preparation, training, injuries, and experiences ahead of this weekend’s race. 2014 African Continental Champion, Phillip Buys (Scott Factory Racing […]
Entries for the Stihl MTB Cup XCO and DHI #3 close at midnight
The third round of the 2015 Stihl SA MTB Cup Series (XCO and DHI) takes place at Mankele Bike Park in Mpumalanga on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th April. Online pre-entries for both events close at midnight tonight. Men’s Elite Rider, Tim Bentley, is looking forward to racing this weekend. “I think that I could […]
Entries now open for 2015 Stihl SA DHI and XCO Cup #3
The weekend of the 25-26 April promises to be another action-packed 2 days of mountain biking as the third round of the 2015 Stihl SA MTB Cup Series takes place at Mankele MTB Park in Mpumalanga. Entries for the XCO and DHI events are now open. Course designer and event organiser, Mark Meyer, said that […]
Beukes and Strauss claim XCO spoils in round 2
The second round of the 2015 Stihl SA MTB Cup XCO took place at Voortrekker Monument, Gauteng, on Saturday 28 March. With 50 Elite Men and 11 Elite Women competing, this event had one of the largest Elite fields in a long time. The winner of the Elite Men’s race was Matthys Beukes (Scott Factory […]
Beauty to bring the Beast at XCO National Cup #2, Gauteng
A week after completing the Absa Cape Epic, Mariske Strauss is back on the bike for her first XCO National this year. She will be competing in the second round of the Stihl 2015 SA XCO Cup Series at Voortrekker Monument in Gauteng on Saturday 28 March. The OMX Pro Team rider and lover of […]
Entries open for the 2015 Stihl SA XCO Cup #2, Gauteng
Entries for the second round of the 2015 Stihl SA XCO Cup Series taking place at Voortrekker Monument, Gauteng on Saturday 28 March 2015, are open. With a UCI category 1 rating for Elite/U23 Men and Women, South Africa’s top XCO stars are expected to compete in a bid to accumulate UCI points towards their […]
Photos: Stihl SA MTB XCO Series #1
South Africa’s top Elite cross-country stars and international riders took part in the first event of the 2015 Stihl SA MTB XCO Series (in partnership with East Cape MTB) in Port Elizabeth on Saturday 28 February 2015. Port Elizabeth – The stage for the 1st SA XCO CUP. Elite rider, Candice Neetlhing, showing her dominance […]
Buys, Neethling take top honours at XCO opening round in PE
Over 140 competitors took to the hot and dry conditions at the opening round of the Stihl 2015 SA National XCO Cup Series, which took place in the Baakens Valley in Port Elizabeth on Saturday, 28 February, with Philip Buys (Scott Factory Racing powered by LCB) and Candice Neethling (Pam Golding/Freewheel Cycology/Specialized) taking the victories […]
Entries for the Stihl SA MTB XCO Cup Series #1 close tonight
South Africa’s top Elite cross-country stars, and international riders too, will be looking to garner UCI category 1 points towards their Rio Olympics 2016 qualification at the first event of the 2015 Stihl SA MTB XCO Series, which takes place in Port Elizabeth on Saturday 28 February 2015, in partnership with East Cape MTB. Entries […]
Olympian Buys heads up new South African MTB Team
London Olympian, Philip Buys, widely regarded as South Africa’s most complete mountain bike racer, will lead a new 14-rider mountain bike racing team into 2015 – and beyond. SCOTT Factory Racing powered by LCB will focus primarily on the Olympic Cross-Country (XCO) discipline with World Championships and Olympic Games success as its long-term goal. Scott […]
XCO Cup Series Round #1: Course Preview
The location of the 1st round of the XCO Cup Series 2015 on 28 February is slam-bam in the middle of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. You’d be forgiven to think serious compromises were made to have this UCI Category 1 course in such a prime location, however at 4.7km and 170m total ascent […]
Thaba Trails in top condition for Mountain Bike National Champs, Gauteng
Gauteng’s Thaba Trails Mountain Bike Park is gearing up to welcome South Africa’s top cross-country (XCO) and downhill (DHI) competitors as it plays host to the 2014 Cycling SA-MTB National Championships, on 19 and 20 July. Image source: thabatrails.webs.com Situated in the south of Johannesburg at 101 Klip River Drive, Mulbarton, the 450 hectare nature […]