{"id":18905,"date":"2015-12-29T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/12\/29\/2016-mountain-bike-stage-race-calendar-r3901\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:49:24","slug":"2016-mountain-bike-stage-race-calendar-r3901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016-mountain-bike-stage-race-calendar-r3901\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Mountain Bike Stage Race Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

2018 Stage Race Calendar:<\/h2>\n

All the racing for 2016 has come to an end. Take a look at our 2018 Stage Race Calendar<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n

South Africa is undoubtedly the capital of the marathon cross country stage race world, with well over 50 stage races (and multiday single stage events) to choose from. It’s clear that proper planning is required. After the success of our 2015 Stage Race Calendar<\/a>, we’ve compiled a list of the mountain bike marathon stage races taking place in South Africa (and other parts of Africa) in 2016.<\/p>\n

\"2016<\/a>Photo: Kelvin Trautman\/ Gameplan Media<\/span><\/p>\n

January<\/h2>\n

23 – 24: EuroSteel Drak Descent (Drakensberg) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

February<\/h2>\n

6 – 7: Fairtree Capital Simonsberg Contour (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

7 – 13 TransCape MTB (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

13 – 14: Lighthouse to Lighthouse (Gansbaai, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

13 – 14: Stanford MTB Tour (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

12 – 14: DUTOIT Tankwa Trek (Ceres, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

12 – 14: Bridgestone Route 66 MTB Experience (Gauteng) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

19 – 21: Trans Outeniqua MTB (Great Brak River, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

26 – 28: Garden Route 300 (Knysna, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

March<\/h2>\n

13 – 20: ABSA Cape Epic (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

18 – 21: 3 Mountains Challenge (Clocolan, Free State) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

31 – 2 April: Spur Lord of the Chain Rings (Hogsback, Eastern Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

April<\/h2>\n

15 – 17: Liberty Cape Winelands (Winelands, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

22 – 30: Old Mutual joBerg2c (Gauteng to KwaZulu-Natal) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

23 – 24: Cell C Arabella MTB Challenge (Kleinmond, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

30 – 1 May: 7 Passes (Garden Route, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

30 – 1 May: Houw Hoek MTB Tour (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

30 – 2 May: Spar Sabie Experience (Mpumalanga) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

May<\/h2>\n

6 – 8: Gravel & Grape (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

7 – 8: Gravel & Grape Lite (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

10 – 12: sani2c Trail (KwaZulu-Natal) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

11 – 13: sani2c Adventure (KwaZulu-Natal) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

12 – 14: sani2c Race (KwaZulu-Natal) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

24 – 29: Windhoek Light Namib Quest (Nambia) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

27 \u2013 29: Croc2Croc (Mpumalanga) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

28 \u2013 29: MTBike Girl 2 Day MTB (Oudtshoorn, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

June<\/h2>\n

1 – 6: Grindrod Bank Pondo Pedal (Wild Coast, Eastern Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

1 – 9: Race To Rhodes (Kwa-Zulu Natal to Eastern Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

3 – 5: PwC Great Zuurberg Trek (Eastern Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

3 – 5: FNB 1Zambia MTB (Zambia) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

5 – 2 July: Freedom Challenge: Race Across South Africa – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

10 \u2013 12: Liberty Waterberg Encounter – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

10 \u2013 12: The Gem Diamonds Kalahari Challenge (Botswana) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

11 \u2013 12: Dusi2c (KwaZulu-Natal) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

17 – 19: RECM Knysna 200 (Knysna, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

17 – 19: Tour of Legends (Entabeni Game Reserve, Limpopo) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

18 \u2013 19: Fish River Sun MTB Challenge (Fish River Sun, Eastern Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

25 – 26: RidetheBerg (Northern Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

30 \u2013 2 July: Innibos MTB Stage Race (Nelspruit, Mpumulanga) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

\"2016<\/a>Photo: Anthony Grote\/ Gameplan Media.<\/span><\/p>\n

July<\/h2>\n

12 – 17: Laikipia XC (Kenya) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

28 \u2013 2 Aug: Nedbank Tour de Tuli (Botswana – Zimbabwe – South Africa) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

August<\/h2>\n

TBC: Imana Wild Ride (Wild Coast, Eastern Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

6 – 8: Glacier Storms River Traverse (Garden Route, Eastern Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

18 – 21: iSimangaliso MTB (iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

September<\/h2>\n

1 – 3: Namaqua Quest MTB (Namaqualand) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

1 – 4: PE PLETT The Tough One + Lite (Eastern Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

3 – 4: Potberg & De Hoop MTB (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

3 – 4: Greyton MTB Tour (Greyton, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

9 – 11: Ride2Nowhere (McGregor, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

15 – 17: Dr Evil Classic (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

19 – 24: Lesotho Sky (Lesotho) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

20 – 24: Rift Valley Odyssey (Kenya) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

30 – 2 Oct: Lormar Endurance MTB Tour (Eastern Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

30 – 2 Oct: Isuzu 3 Towers (Mpumalanga) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

October<\/h2>\n

7 – 9: Berg & Bush Descent (Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

11 – 13: Berg & Bush Great Trek (Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

13 – 15: The INYATSI Swazi Frontier (Swaziland) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

15 – 16: The U MTB Stage Race (Piket-Bo-Berg, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

15 – 16: Berg & Bush 2 Day (Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

16 – 22: Cape Pioneer Trek (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

TBC: Wild Corridor (Eastern\/ Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

November<\/h2>\n

4 – 6: FNB Wines2Whales Adventure (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

7 – 9: FNB Wines2Whales Ride (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

11 – 13: FNB Wines2Whales Race (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

19- 20: To Hell And Back (Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

25 – 26 (TBC): Origin of Trails (Stellenbosch, Western Cape) – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

30 – 5 Dec: The Munga – Event Website<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2016 stage race calendar will be kept up-to-date. If an event has been excluded or you spot an error, please leave a comment on the article so that we can look into it.<\/p>\n

\nFor a listing of single day races, check out our Events directory<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2018 Stage Race Calendar: All the racing for 2016 has come to an end. Take a look at our 2018 Stage Race Calendar. South Africa is undoubtedly the capital of the marathon cross country stage race world, with well over 50 stage races (and multiday single stage events) to choose from. It’s clear that proper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3241,223,3239,3240,517],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure-and-travel","tag-calendar","tag-events","tag-mountain-bike","tag-races","tag-stage-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18905"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}