{"id":20023,"date":"2015-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/05\/11\/defending-champion-ready-for-fnb-magalies-monster-r2539\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:57:43","slug":"defending-champion-ready-for-fnb-magalies-monster-r2539","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/defending-champion-ready-for-fnb-magalies-monster-r2539\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion ready for FNB Magalies Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014 well-known German mountain biker\/triathlete Nico Pfitzenmaier conquered the FNB Magalies Monster MTB Classic presented by ISUZU on his first attempt in an awe-inspiring time of 03 hours 38 minutes 25 seconds, over 7 minutes ahead of his closest rival. Pitzenmaier\u2019s title defence on Saturday, 23 May 2015 is however bound to be more challenging when he goes up against the likes of Erik Kleinhans of Team RECM.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-15699300-1431326989.jpg\" data-fileid=\"528897\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"528897\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-15699300-1431326989.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-15699300-1431326989.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Nico Pfitzenmaier on his way to victory at the 2014 FNB Magalies Monster MTB Classic presented by ISUZU at ATKV Buffelspoort  (North West Province). \/\/ Photo Credit: Volume Photography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a lot of fun at the 2014 event,\u201d says Pfitzenmaier.  \u201cThe route offers a variety of fun single trails and a long, challenging and rough climb to the top of the \u201cMonster,\u201d followed by a fast descent.   There were a lot of thorns, so my advice to riders would be to fill the stance levels in their mountain bike tyres.  Also be sure to drink a lot of water as it is guaranteed to be hot.  My goal will be to have fun on my new bike, while winning it again would be a bonus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EVENT INFORMATION:  FNB Magalies Monster MTB Classic presented by ISUZU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DATE: Saturday, 23 May 2015<\/p>\n<p>VENUE: ATKV Buffelspoort  (North West Province)<\/p>\n<p>DISTANCE, COST &amp; START:<\/p>\n<p>75km \/ R290 \/ 08h00<\/p>\n<p>45km \/ R190 \/  09h00<\/p>\n<p>20km \/ R100 \/ 09h30<\/p>\n<p>CSA Temporary License<\/p>\n<p>45km &amp; 75km \/ R35<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/magmonstermtb\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@magmonstermtb<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Like our Facebook Page:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StillwaterMTBEvents\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stillwater MTB Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each FNB Magalies Monster MTB entrant will receive a fantastic event t-shirt compliments of DHL Express, while all entrants will stand the chance to win either a magnificent Specialized Era Comp Carbon mountain bike for women or a Specialized Camber Comp Carbon for men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014 well-known German mountain biker\/triathlete Nico Pfitzenmaier conquered the FNB Magalies Monster MTB Classic presented by ISUZU on his first attempt in an awe-inspiring time of 03 hours 38 minutes 25 seconds, over 7 minutes ahead of his closest rival. Pitzenmaier\u2019s title defence on Saturday, 23 May 2015 is however bound to be more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4046,292,1290,750],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-20023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-fnb-magalies-monster-mtb","tag-magalies-monster","tag-magalies-monster-mtb-classic","tag-nico-pfitzenmaier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023","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=20023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20023"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=20023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}