UCI Mountain Bike World Cup comes to the Western Cape in 2018
The Western Cape has landed another world cycling showpiece event – the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano race. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) series attracts the crème de la crème of international cross country mountain biking and tens of thousands of spectators to its races around the world. The South African leg […]
Video: Ambitions (Feat. Emily Batty) Episode 8 – Olympic Sunset
In this episode of Ambitions, Emily shows us the lines in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada and talks us through her Olympic preparations and the outcome on race day in Rio.
Strauss dominates Elite Women’s Cross-country Championships
The Western Cape’s Mariske Strauss (Novus OMX Pro Team) put in a dominant performance to claim the 2016 South African Cross-country National Championship title in the Pro-elite Women’s category at the STIHL 2016 South African National Mountain bike Championships at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday 16 July. Strauss crossed the finish line in […]
Team SA settled and ready ahead of World XCO Champs
The South African team has settled in well and are enjoying the last few moments of practice and preparations ahead of the action-packed week at the 2016 UCI Mountain bike XCO World Championships, which take place for the first time in Nove Mesto Na Morave in the Czech Republic from Wednesday 29 June to Sunday […]
Western Cape XCO 2016 season report
The dust has settled, the thermometer has dropped and we have been blessed by some rain. The cross country (XCO) provincial season has come to an end with much to brag about. Photo credit: Chris Hitchcock. The Western Province Mountain Bike Commission (WPMTBC) is a committee of 11 active members whose primary function is to […]
Comfortable victories for Buys and Redecker at Free State XCO Cup Series Finale
The Happy Valley Conservancy played host to the fifth and final round of the STIHL 2016 SA XCO Cup Series in Bloemfontein on Saturday 18 June. Novus OMX Pro MTB Team’s Cherie Redecker and Team SCOTT LCB’s Philip Buys took the respective wins in the Elite Women and Men’s category at the first UCI Category […]
2017 UCI MTB World Cup event schedule released
The UCI has updated its major mountain biking events calendar, including the World Cup XCO and Downhill schedule. Cross-country and Downhill 1-2 Jul UCI MTB WORLD CUP – XCO – DHI Vallnord AND5-6 Aug UCI MTB WORLD CUP – XCO – DHI Mont-Sainte-Anne CAN26-27 Aug UCI MTB WORLD CUP – XCO – DHI Val Di […]
Final Olympic qualifier set to draw big crowds in PE
With the Olympics little more than 3 months away, PE will be host to a truly monumental race on Saturday, 14 May. A race that will be the final deciding factor for riders like James Reid (Team Spur) and Alan Hatherly (Kargo Pro MTB) who are aiming for a spot in this year’s Olympic Team. […]
Mud fest tests inner strength of riders at PMB MTB Festival XCO
Austrian National Champion Gregor Raggl (Haibike Otzal Pro Team) and Mariske Strauss (Novus OMX Pro Team) claimed top honours in the Elite races and German Alexander Bunn (Team Firebike Drossiger) and Danielle Strydom (Swiss Cycles) claimed top honours in the Junior races, raking in the highest UCI points on offer at the rain-soaked second annual […]
The Long and Winding Road (to Rio)
If you’re a local mountain biker with dreams of wearing South African colours at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August, you’re probably not getting much sleep tonight! And if you’re passionate about this sport you’ll likely be feeling the same butterflies as star rider, James Reid. At 2pm tomorrow (Saturday, 30 April) […]
Series Report: Subaru WC XCO Series 2016
I have wanted to ride XCO since I first saw Burry Stander riding in the Olympics in 2012. Never mind that at the time I hadn’t touched a bike since I was nine years old- a trivial detail. To me XCO is the ultimate athletic achievement- it requires above average bike handling skills, strength and […]
Scramble for Series points heats up at third XCO Cup
Not only will the country witness the neck-in-neck display of racing action put on by the Elite riders fighting for all-important UCI points, but also a rather exciting and always surprising turn of events demonstrated by our very talented younger and older riders scrambling for their own series points in the third round of the […]