Video: SA MTB Champs – Oli Munnik previews the Coetzenburg XCO course
The 2015 South Africa National MTB XCO and DHI championships are taking placing in Stellenbosch on 18 and 19 July. The newly built course at Coetzenburg will host the XCO races. Watch as Oliver Munnik takes us on guided tour of the Coetzenburg track. You can enter SA National MTB Champs XCO and DHI here. […]
UCI Mountain Bike World Cup: Lenzerheide XCO & DHI
Scheduled for the beginning of July, the Swiss resort is – along with Lourdes – one of the new venues this year. Lenzerheide will welcome the season’s first combined XCO/DHI event, which will also be the first of three rounds (2015-2017) at the venue in the lead-up to the 2018 UCI World Championships. The Swiss, […]
Croeser & Vale clinch victory in final round of SA MTB Cup Series
Cold conditions greeted the riders at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg for the fourth and final round of the Stihl SA MTB Cup Series, which saw tough competition and hard racing amongst all the categories today. The sun broke through at the beginning of the Elite Men’s seven-lap race at 1pm, five minutes before the […]
2016 UCI Mountain Bike Race Calendar
The Union Cycliste Internationale’s (UCI’s) 2016 season of major mountain bike events will be marked by the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the UCI World Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic (for Olympic cross-country – XCO) and Val di Sole, Italy (downhill and four-cross – DHI and 4X), as well as the return of Cairns (Australia) […]
Entries for last round SA MTB Cup Series close midnight
Looking back on a series of superb racing and fantastic results seen from multitude of XCO and DHI stars, the final rounds of the 2015 SA MTB XCO and DHI Cup will definitely be one for the books at Cascades MTB Park, Pietermaritzburg from 27-28 June. Entries for both events close at midnight tonight (Tuesday […]
Video: Coetzenburg cross-country course
Construction of the Coetzenburg cross-country course in Stellenbosch started on 25 March 2015. Bennet Nel and his team at Ace of Spades have been tasked with the track building. Having hosted Western Province XCO Champs in May, South African XCO Champs will take place at Coetzenburg on 18 July. For the SA XCO Champs, the […]
Thrilling KZN XCO Champs finale
Enthusiastic mountain bikers of all ages arrived at Cascades MTB Park and raced to their limits for a stake at the cross-country Championship titles in their respective categories in Pietermaritzburg today. Conditions were ideal with a cool and crisp start to the morning, warming up to over 30 degrees by noon, which made for some […]
KZN XCO Champs attracts top stars
Mountain bikers of all ages will be competing for the championship titles on offer at this weekend’s 2015 KwaZulu-Natal MTB Championships (XCO), taking place at Cascades MTB Park, Pietermaritzburg on Saturday 30 May. Pre-entries for the event close at midnight tonight. Junior Women’s rider Frankie du Toit (Team Time Freight) is feeling confident heading into […]
SA XCO stars ready for World Cup #1
The first round of the 2015 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup (XCO) presented by Shimano takes place this weekend in Nove Mesto na Morave (Czech Republic) on 23 and 24 May 2015. A few of South Africa’s star XCO riders – Jan Whitaar, Philip Buys, Arno du Toit, Gert Heyns, Matthys Beukes, Brendon Davids, Alan […]
UCI MTB World Cup XCO Round 1: Nove Mesto na Morave
This weekend will see the start of the 2015 season for the cross-country series of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano, in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic. The Nove Mesto event, awarded the title of best cross-country World Cup multiple times, is the fitting place to launch the 25th season of […]
Locals prepared for KZN XCO Champs
The 2015 KwaZulu-Natal MTB Championships (XCO) will be taking place at Cascades MTB Park, Pietermaritzburg, on Saturday 30 May. Sponsored by KwaZulu-Natal Sports and Recreation, the event will allow top contenders in the KZN regions to compete for the 2015 XCO Championship title. The world-renowned venue, having hosted four UCI MTB World Cups and two […]
Provincial XCO Champs set to rock Cascades
Highly acclaimed World Championship mountain bike venue, Cascades MTB Park, is all set to host the 2015 KwaZulu-Natal MTB Championships on 30 May (XCO), and again on 6-7 June (DHI/Enduro). These Elite Men (seen in action from the KZN XCO Cup #2) will be in strong contention for the provincial title at the 2015 KZN […]