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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cHannes \u2013 a friend of mine, who is a sixth generation farmer in Molteno \u2013 started helping them a few years back,\u201d explained Martin Dreyer from the RMB Change A Life Academy. \u201cThe two guys who were just super keen, you know, showed a passion for riding. Hannes didn\u2019t have any support structures in place to properly assist the promising riders, so he invited Maza, as he is known, to come and live in the Valley of a Thousand Hills at the Change A Life headquarters and become part of the current RMB Change a Life Mountain Bike Team\u201d. <\/p>\n
In a few short years he\u2019s become one of the strongest riders in the team. \u201cHe\u2019s done a quite a few big events now,\u201d Dreyer said. \u201cHe\u2019s ridden Sani2C and just recently finished third overall at the Dusi2C with his partner Sipho Kupiso.\u201d <\/p>\n
Maza and Kupiso also finished second in the two-man team category at the gruelling 36One MTB Challenge in Oudtshoorn in April. <\/p>\n
\u201cThanks to Arthur Joubert and the Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm for hosting the riders and giving them the opportunity to take part in the JBay Wind Farm MTB Classic. It will be the first time Maza is racing in his home province,\u201d Dreyer said. <\/p>\n
\u201cMaza also just got his driver\u2019s license recently so he is going to take his mother\u2019s car and they are going to go on a bit of a road trip, which will be quite a life experience,\u201d said Dreyer. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe RMB Change A Life Academy is not just about nurturing talent but is also about developing life skills, so this will be very good for them. The holistic approach is as important to me – just to give them the opportunity to travel and hopefully they become better people from being in the academy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThando has phenomenal talent and if all goes well with this race he will get more opportunity for sure,\u201d Dreyer concluded. <\/p>\n
The JBay Windfarm MTB Classic takes place on Saturday 16 July and features three routes, 25km, 50km and 85km. The event carries the unique distinction of being the only MTB event in Africa to run through a wind farm. Entries are limited and selling out fast head over to www.jeffreysbaysport.co.za<\/a> to enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The rural hamlet of Molteno in the Eastern Cape is known as the home of \u2018Ouma\u2019 Rusks and, as the town with the coldest recorded temperature in SA (-18\u00b0C June 18, 1996) but not as a hotbed for endurance athletes. That is all set to change. Ndumiso \u2018Maza\u2019 Dontso and Luvuyo \u2018Thando\u2019 Siyasi, two up-and-coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1259,1962,592,2484,2367],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-17921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-change-a-life","tag-change-a-life-academy","tag-jbay-wind-farm-mtb-classic","tag-rmb-change-a-life","tag-rmb-change-a-life-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17921","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=17921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17921"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=17921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}