ASG\u2019s Hanco Kachelhoffer (left) and Pieter Seyffert took overall honours in the Sanlam MTB Invitational two-stage race near Paarl this weekend. Photo: Warren Elsom\/Capcha<\/span><\/p>\nHe said Davel and Viljoen stayed with them and ultimately took the lead going into the decisive single-track section.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt takes you from about 10km out all the way to the finish and you can\u2019t really pass, so we just stayed on their wheel and finished a few seconds behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kachelhoffer said going into the race, which is presented by ASG Events, their aim was to finish on the podium and to \u201cpossibly win\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cPieter is a fulltime professional so he was here for only one reason and that was to win. I had to try to hold on and just managed to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he had found the route of the Sanlam MTB Invitational, which evolved from a one-day event, quite challenging.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s stage was new and there was a long climb at the start which caused Pieter to say \u2018what\u2019s going on\u2019,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd they have really done a good job with the new single-track right on the edge of that cliff. I thought at the time that if I had a fear of heights this might be a little intimidating, but we never complain about too much single-track so overall it was a great challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s race was won by Girls On Bikes\u2019s Karla Groenewald and Sylma Jordaan in 6:44:38, with the mixed category going to Enduro Hub\u2019s Tiaan Pretorius and Jenny Close in 5:26:05.<\/p>\n
The general classification results were:<\/h2>\n
Men<\/strong><\/p>\n1. Hanco Kachelhoffer and Pieter Seyffert (ASG) 4:37:33
2. Bennie Viljoen and Jaco Davel (ASG) 4:43:16
3. Linus and Leonardo van Onselen (Father and Son Flandria) 4:50:18<\/p>\n
Women<\/strong><\/p>\n1. Karla Groenewald and Sylma Jordaan (Girls On Bikes) 6:44:38
2. Tania Rossouw and Estelle van Schalkwyk Morland (Tulbagh Street) 7:01:57<\/p>\n
Mixed<\/strong><\/p>\n1. Jenny Close and Tiaan Pretorius (Enduro Hub) 5:26:05
2. Anja van Zyl and Erik Knoetze (Almost There) 5:44:10
3. Ilse Viljoen and Constant Viljoen (Viljoens) 6:04:25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hanco Kachelhoffer and Pieter Seyffert ended a three-year partnership on a high note when they won the Sanlam MTB Invitational two-stage mountain bike race at Rhebokskloof near Paarl today. The ASG duo won the 60km opening stage on Saturday to take a comfortable lead of just under six minutes into the second day. ASG\u2019s Pieter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2016,1777,2017],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-17360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-hanco-kachelhoffer","tag-pieter-seyffert","tag-sanlam-mtb-invitational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360","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=17360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17360"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=17360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>ASG\u2019s Pieter Seyffert leads team-mate Hanco Kachelhoffer through a section of single-track on the final stage of the Sanlam MTB Invitational near Paarl today. Photo: Warren Elsom\/Capcha.<\/span><\/p>\n