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<\/a><\/p>\nClose second was Murray Craib with 30 laps and 3rd Lurich Smith with 29 laps.<\/p>\n
In the Solo ladies, the Oak Valley sponsored Bianca Silberbauer rode 24 laps and beating most of the men’s field! Desiree Strydom and Almari de Milamber took 2nd and 3rd respectively.<\/p>\n In the four-man team open category and overall winners the Brakpan team ended with more than 40 laps after the 24Hour period. Riders Karel & Matthew Keyser, Gys Malan and Louis Strijdom could stick together through the night.<\/p>\n The PRG Sprite team with 5 riders won the junior category and second overall.<\/p>\n Other categories were Mixed team with Bosstap, OneFourZero with Wheel Deal team the winners and the Fun Class. All provisional results on trailtag.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the event was again about the spirit of camping and mountain biking with over 450 campers on Saturday night. The evening was mild, but the daytime riding was hot! Ice cold Powerade was served at the transition area and lube station. During the night the course were quieter and took a different feel. Sunday morning you could see hundreds of wheels have covered the route. It was very dusty, and you could see on the legs of participants, who has done the most laps…<\/p>\n All in all a fun weekend was had by all on & off the track.<\/p>\n The twist is that the next event is only in 2022, giving you plenty of time to train or mentally prepare!<\/p>\n Let\u2019s see if Dane will be back to defend his title of King of the 24Hour.<\/p>\n The 24Hours of Oak Valley has been running for many years by Dirtopia and in 2020, Dane Walsh took the Solo male rider category win for the 7th time with 31 laps! That is 385km and 8215m of climbing and a technical mountain bike course of over 12km. Truly remarkable what spirit he has, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[303],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-15238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-24-hours-of-oak-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15238"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=15238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"