{"id":16342,"date":"2017-10-27T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2017\/10\/27\/stage-one-of-fnb-w2w-mtb-adventure-kicks-off-at-lourensford-wine-estate-r6949\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T06:21:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T06:21:25","slug":"stage-one-of-fnb-w2w-mtb-adventure-kicks-off-at-lourensford-wine-estate-r6949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/stage-one-of-fnb-w2w-mtb-adventure-kicks-off-at-lourensford-wine-estate-r6949\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage One of FNB W2W MTB Adventure kicks off at Lourensford Wine Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clear skies greeted just over 1320 excited mountain bikers at the picturesque Lourensford Wine Estate this morning for the start of Stage One of the FNB Wines2Whales (W2W) Mountain Bike (MTB) Adventure.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-58780-0-81880200-1509112405.jpg\" data-fileid=\"1078870\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1078870\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-58780-0-81880200-1509112405.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-58780-0-81880200-1509112405.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Riders in action during Stage One of the FNB W2W MTB Adventure. Photo Credit: Tobias Ginsberg<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Celebrating its 9th anniversary this year, Stage One of the Western Cape\u2019s premier three day MTB stage race saw riders having to complete a 64km route that featured a 1650m ascent before crossing the finish line at Oak Valley Wine Estate (Elgin-Grabouw), their home for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Team Sukkel Sukkel\u2019s Francois Theron and Fritz Pienaar put down the hammer in the men\u2019s race crossing the finish line first in a time of 03 hours 36 minutes 08 seconds. \u201cStage One was a nice journey from point to point. Our plan was to go as fast as we could to get to the single track first,\u201d says Theron. Waldo Zevenster and Carl Toua of Team Dream Real Digital came in second, while Christo Toua Toua and Gareth Harrington of Team Epic Grid rounded off the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Lolita Van Aardt and Simone Rhoda Van Aardt of Team Like Mother Like Daughter were the ladies to beat claiming gold in 04 hours 35 minutes 28 seconds. \u201cThe course was fantastic,\u201d says Lolita. \u201cIt was really windy today, but the water points were fantastic and the stage was great. This is the third year that Simone and I ride together. We like the atmosphere and the stages are nice and short. The first stage is always tough. We\u2019re really looking forward to Play Day.\u201d Janine Muller and Mari du Toit of Team Oakley Group Girls came in second, while Erica Green and Reinette Geldenhuis of Team Wines2Whales finished third.<\/p>\n<p>Team Rotsvas\u2019 Anton and Adrienne Moolman were dominant in the Mixed Team race crossing the finish line in 03 hours 52 minutes 15 seconds. \u201cThe fan did not stop blowing today,\u201d laughs Anton. \u201cThe trails were nice. We loved the scenery, flowers, atmosphere and Race Village. The event is just perfectly organized. We\u2019re really looking forward to tomorrow.\u201d Petrus and Yzette Oelofse of Team Boys &amp; Bikes came in second, while Hamish Knowles and Theresa Ralph of Team Galileo Risk finished third.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Top Ten Results Stage 1<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.bikehub.co.za\/applications\/core\/interface\/file\/attachment.php?id=1078871\" data-fileid=\"1078871\" data-fileext=\"xlsx\" rel=\"\">RESULTS 2017 FNB W2W MTB Adventure Stage One.xlsx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear skies greeted just over 1320 excited mountain bikers at the picturesque Lourensford Wine Estate this morning for the start of Stage One of the FNB Wines2Whales (W2W) Mountain Bike (MTB) Adventure. Riders in action during Stage One of the FNB W2W MTB Adventure. Photo Credit: Tobias Ginsberg Celebrating its 9th anniversary this year, Stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[404,882,15],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-w2w","tag-w2w-mtb","tag-wines2whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342","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=16342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16342"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}