{"id":18157,"date":"2016-05-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/05\/17\/scott-lcb-factory-racing-ride-with-aggression-and-flow-to-win-sani2c-r4802\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:14:48","slug":"scott-lcb-factory-racing-ride-with-aggression-and-flow-to-win-sani2c-r4802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/scott-lcb-factory-racing-ride-with-aggression-and-flow-to-win-sani2c-r4802\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTT LCB Factory Racing ride with aggression and flow to win sani2c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBraaap is a noun. It\u2019s the sound of MTB knobblies being overloaded in a sweet berm. Braaap is a verb. It\u2019s to ride with aggression and flow. Braaap is a statement of intent. It means I\u2019m ready for this, I want this and I\u2019m going to rock this.\u201d  This is how leelikesbikes.com describes the term \u201cbraaap\u201d. The same term Gert Heyns used for his Strava ride the Monday after he and Matthys Beukes won the Sani2C.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nVxhJCgoOGE?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trailing by almost three minutes going into the last day, the approach was simple. \u201cWe are going to race as if it\u2019s cross country,\u201d Beukes said the morning of the final day.<\/p>\n<p>Before the weekend\u2019s race the team had doubts over Matthys\u2019 fitness. After having to withdraw from the Cape Epic due to illness, the road to recovery meant less time on the bike than he would have wanted. Afterwards Gert commented that he was a bit worried if Matthys\u2019 legs would last, but after winning the Sani2C with a superb final day, it\u2019s obvious that Beukes is back with a bang. <\/p>\n<p>Their race did not start according to plan. A technical on the first stage resulted in the team losing time and finishing 5 minutes off the pace. They pulled it back brilliantly with a crucial stage win on the 2nd day, making up for some of the lost time on Day 1. The win put them in overall 2nd position, almost three minutes behind overnight leaders Johann Rabie and HB Kruger of Team Telkom. <\/p>\n<p>Aggressive riding from the start by Heyns and Beukes was met with equal vigour by the leading pair, making it very difficult to gain ground. The first day\u2019s bad luck, however, was rewarded with a turn in fortunes. A bad puncture on a downhill forced Team Telkom out of contention. Setting a frantic pace up front, Team Scott LCB took the overall win away from the race leaders. <\/p>\n<p>The winning pair is aware that they had luck on their side. \u201cEvery second counts on a day like today. This is not exactly how we wanted to win, but we lost three minutes on day one, so sometimes you win and sometimes you lose,\u201d Beukes said after the final sprint to the finish line. <\/p>\n<p>After missing out on the Epic, Gert Heyns was in a thankful mood: \u201cWe can now look forward to the rest of the year. There are still a lot of races to go.\u201d Until the next showdown, the two will braaap the living daylights out of their local Strava trails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBraaap is a noun. It\u2019s the sound of MTB knobblies being overloaded in a sweet berm. Braaap is a verb. It\u2019s to ride with aggression and flow. Braaap is a statement of intent. It means I\u2019m ready for this, I want this and I\u2019m going to rock this.\u201d This is how leelikesbikes.com describes the term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[463,703,53,1965],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-gert-heyns","tag-matthys-beukes","tag-sani2c","tag-scott-lcb-factory-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157","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=18157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18157"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}