{"id":15690,"date":"2018-11-01T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2018\/11\/01\/berg-amp-bush-revamps-midweek-ride-r7603\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:38:00","slug":"berg-amp-bush-revamps-midweek-ride-r7603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/berg-amp-bush-revamps-midweek-ride-r7603\/","title":{"rendered":"Berg & Bush revamps midweek ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

After careful consideration of its three events, and wanting to keep things varied for loyal and new riders alike, the Grindrod Bank Berg & Bush based near Winterton in KwaZulu-Natal is innovating once again.<\/p>\n

From 2019, the midweek Berg & Bush will be known as the Berg & Bush Great Midweek, and will start and finish at the same race village on all three days.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-97159300-1541070399.jpg\"<\/a>Photo credit: Em Gatland<\/span><\/p>\n

The slight change in format makes the popular midweek ride a clover-leaf format for all three days, allowing participants more time in the iconic Em\u2019Seni race village and removing some transport logistics.<\/p>\n

Day one of the tweaked Berg & Bush Great Midweek will now feature all-new trails in and around the bushveld and farm areas that riders have come to know and love on days two and three of the Berg & Bush. The first day of riding will also be 70km long, making it more accessible for riders who might be put off by the Descent\u2019s 98km day one.<\/p>\n

The change also means that no pre-event accommodation is required, no bag transport or car shuttles are needed; fly-in packages will be less logistically challenging, all-new day one trails will be built, and one race village means every day starts and finishes on the banks of the Tugela River.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving seen mountain biking and mountain bike events evolve over our 14 years of Berg & Bush, I\u2019ve certainly noticed riders\u2019 attitudes towards races change,\u201d says Berg & Bush founder Gary Green.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019ve picked up on of late, and what our riders are telling me, is that mountain bikers enjoy a great camp experience and a good night’s sleep. Plus, they simply want to have fun while riding their bikes. We feel the revamped midweek ride is now that exact event.”<\/p>\n

Green says to meet that desire, they\u2019ve gone ahead with the changes to their midweek event. \u201cWe\u2019ve decided to create a brand new shortened day one of the midweek event, around 70km of brand new unexplored trails, so that riders can start and finish in one race village, enjoy a long but not excessively arduous ride, and then relax all day in our race village.\u201d<\/p>\n

Berg & Bush Great Midweek riders will now register at the Em\u2019Seni race village and settle in for three nights and three days of world class riding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis gives riders the opportunity to enjoy the Great morning ride and the Great afternoon camp life!\u201d says Green.<\/p>\n

Early bird entries open for all three Grindrod Bank Berg & Bush 2019 events on Monday, 5 November 2019. Enter at www.bergandbush.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nGrindrod Bank Berg & Bush 2019 dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

Berg & Bush Descent: 4-6 October<\/p>\n

Berg & Bush Great Midweek: 8-10 October<\/p>\n

Berg & Bush 2 Day: 12 & 13th October\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After careful consideration of its three events, and wanting to keep things varied for loyal and new riders alike, the Grindrod Bank Berg & Bush based near Winterton in KwaZulu-Natal is innovating once again. From 2019, the midweek Berg & Bush will be known as the Berg & Bush Great Midweek, and will start and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-15690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-berg-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690","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=15690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15690"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=15690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}