{"id":16781,"date":"2017-04-28T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2017\/04\/28\/minnaar-to-give-it-his-all-in-2017-season-r6479\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T06:51:47","slug":"minnaar-to-give-it-his-all-in-2017-season-r6479","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/minnaar-to-give-it-his-all-in-2017-season-r6479\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnaar to give it his all in 2017 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three-time World MTB Downhill Champion and multiple World Cup medallist Greg Minnaar has kept himself rather busy off the bike during his time at home, but is looking forward to get the cracks going when he goes bike testing in Portugal ahead of the first UCI Downhill World Cup in Lourdes, France, on 29 April.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been such a great time back home catching up with family and friends, but I\u2019m looking forward to get it all going again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-55452800-1493364511.jpg\"<\/a>Three-time World MTB Downhill Champion and multiple World Cup medallist Greg Minnaar has kept himself rather busy off the bike during his time at home, but is looking forward to getting going at the first UCI Downhill World Cup in Lourdes, France, on 29 April. Credit: Santa Cruz Syndicate<\/span><\/p>\n

Minnaar has had a great break during the off-season, but has by no means been resting. He said: \u201cIt\u2019s been a very busy few weeks. I have been in the process of building a new house, so that has been quite stressful. I\u2019ve also been doing some filming with three various TV crews so that also took up quite a lot of my time \u2013 so I\u2019ve been doing a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has also been busy with the launch of his re-vamped family bike shop in Pietermaritzburg, Greg Minnaar Cycles. \u201cIt\u2019s been very exciting seeing it all come together, but also super busy. I guess you could say I\u2019m pretty good as a site manager now,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n

Minnaar has also been pushing hard to develop a new bike. \u201cI\u2019m busy with the prototype now, and really excited to have it all done and revealed really soon,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-76825800-1493364510.jpg\"<\/a>South African Downhiller Greg Minnaar has been in Portugal for bike testing for a week ahead of the first UCI Downhill World Cup in Lourdes, France, on 29 April. Credit: Santa Cruz Syndicate<\/span><\/p>\n

When chatting about the new Santa Cruz Syndicate Team roster, Minnaar said: \u201cSo we have Luca Shaw (USA) and Loris Vergier (France) who have joined us, and it\u2019s all very exciting for the team. We spent a week in Italy bike testing with them, which was the first time that we all got to do some real riding together. They are both great guys and we\u2019re having a good time together already.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course it\u2019s going to be different with new team riders, but we are going to try and replicate what we had before as much as we can, because it was a great recipe.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Team Manager Kathy Sessler and Mechanic Jason Marsh still on board, Minnaar is confident that the two new recruits will add some fresh flare to an already epic concoction.<\/p>\n

Minnaar has been in Portugal for some bike testing for a week ahead of the first World Cup, and says: \u201cI\u2019m really happy to get to do the testing, it\u2019ll be the time I need to get myself really focused on the downhill bike because I haven\u2019t been spending as much time on it as I could be. But having said that, fitness-wise I\u2019m feeling good, and strong. I don\u2019t have too many seasons left in me, so I have to give it my all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three-time World MTB Downhill Champion and multiple World Cup medallist Greg Minnaar has kept himself rather busy off the bike during his time at home, but is looking forward to get the cracks going when he goes bike testing in Portugal ahead of the first UCI Downhill World Cup in Lourdes, France, on 29 April. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[675],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-greg-minnaar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781","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=16781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16781"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}