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<\/a>Robert Hobson solos his way to victory at the 18th Buco Lions Karoo to Coast Mountain Bike Challenge. Photo credited: Ewald Sadie | www.esphotography.co.za<\/span><\/p>\nAt the top of the first climb out of Uniondale, a group of eight riders and had formed. \u201cMyself and Matthew Keyser managed to get a bit of a gap on the rest on the first downhill,\u201d Hobson explains. The two stayed away for a few kilometres but the group came back together again on a long flat section.<\/p>\n
According to Hobson, the six-strong group rode together until about 45 kilometres to go when he managed to get a gap. \u201cI broke away kind of by chance,\u201d he says, \u201cand then on the next climb managed to extend the gap.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hobson put in a huge solo effort over the back half of the course and managed to stay away to claim the win in 03:17:19.<\/p>\n
Jeanie de Villiers, who finished second in 2016 went one better in the women\u2019s category to win in a time of 03:59:50. \u201cI expected to suffer and I got that,\u201d said the visibly ecstatic 36-year-old at the finish. \u201cI\u2019m so happy to have so many people on my side and the way it played out – a very special thanks goes out to my coach John Wakefield,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
More about the event<\/h2>\n
The Buco Lions Karoo to Coast Mountain Bike Challenge is an off road race from UNIONDALE to KNYSNA via the Prince Alfred’s Pass. The route is scenic, challenging and riders are encouraged to train sufficiently for this event in order to maximise the enjoyment of the experience. The race is also an Official Premier Seeding Event of the 2018 Cape Town Cycle Tour.<\/p>\n
For more information and to enter, visit www.karootocoast.com<\/p>\n
1. Robert Hobson 03:17:19
2. Charles McFall 03:21:52
3. Matthew Keyser 03:23:35<\/p>\n
Women<\/strong> Robert Hobson (Flandria Cycles) won the 18th Buco Lions Karoo to Coast Mountain Bike Challenge in emphatic style after making a solo break with about 40kms to go It was the 19-year-old from Stellensbosch\u2019s first attempt at the 95.95km event and he was ecstatic with the result. \u201cYes, very happy indeed!\u201d He commented at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[952,603,222,363,951],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-jeanie-de-villiers","tag-karoo-2-coast","tag-karoo-to-coast","tag-karoo2coast","tag-robert-hobson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411","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=16411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16411"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
1. Jeanie de Villiers 03:59:50
2. Nicola Giliomee 04:07:13
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