{"id":19557,"date":"2015-07-29T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/07\/29\/simon-nicks-to-ride-leadville-100-miler-for-velokhaya-r3207\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:15:51","slug":"simon-nicks-to-ride-leadville-100-miler-for-velokhaya-r3207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/simon-nicks-to-ride-leadville-100-miler-for-velokhaya-r3207\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Nicks to ride Leadville 100 miler for Velokhaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Velokhaya supporter and avid mountain bike rider, Simon Nicks from Cape Town, has had the good fortune of being invited to participate in the 2015 Leadville MTB 100 miler &#8211; thanks to friendships made during the 2013 ABSA Cape Epic \u2013 and has decided, very kindly, to use his participation in the event to raise money for Velokhaya.<\/p>\n<p>All funds to go towards the, much needed, purchase of mountain bikes for the new Velokhaya MTB programme.<\/p>\n<p>The gruelling one day, 160km high altitude (between 3 200m and 3 800m) Leadville MTB event in the Colorado Rockies takes place on Saturday, 15th August 2015 and we all wish him well on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Please show your support by pledging an amount per km that he completes (see examples below). <a href=\"http:\/\/velokhaya.com\/support-simon-nicks-as-he-rides-the-leadville-mtb-100mile\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to register your support for Simon and Velokhaya.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Interesting facts about Leadville:<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-96251500-1438166638-1.png\" data-fileid=\"572440\" data-fileext=\"png\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"572440\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-96251500-1438166638.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-96251500-1438166638-1.png\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Leadville Race Series includes the 100 mile trail run the following weekend won three times by South African Ryan Sandes. The race series was started as a way of reviving Leadville, the highest town in the US, whose economy was dying after the closure of the local mine in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadvilleraceseries.com\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.leadvilleraceseries.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How you can support this worthy cause:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Individuals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SA R1\/km (160km)<\/p>\n<p>UK \u00a31\/mile (100 miles)<\/p>\n<p>US US$1\/mile (100 miles)<\/p>\n<p>Aus A$1\/km (160kms)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Companies and organisations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SA R10\/km or more (160km)<\/p>\n<p>UK \u00a310\/mile or more (100 miles)<\/p>\n<p>US US$10\/mile or more (100 miles)<\/p>\n<p>Aus A$10\/km or more (160km)<\/p>\n<p>(Note for SA corporate sponsors: Velokhaya qualifies under the DTI regulations in the Socio-economic Development category as a charity benefitting PDIs and donations will earn BEE certificate points \u2013 click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velokhaya.com\/get-involved\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.velokhaya.com\/get-involved\/<\/a> to view our BEE certificate).<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your interest and support, in kind but hopefully in cash!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Velokhaya supporter and avid mountain bike rider, Simon Nicks from Cape Town, has had the good fortune of being invited to participate in the 2015 Leadville MTB 100 miler &#8211; thanks to friendships made during the 2013 ABSA Cape Epic \u2013 and has decided, very kindly, to use his participation in the event to raise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3737,3735,3736,1661],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-leadville","tag-leadville-100","tag-simon-nicks","tag-velokhaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557","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=19557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19557"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}