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<\/a><\/p>\nAddo is gearing up to welcome more than 140 mountain bikers from across South Africa for the second edition of the three-day PwC Great Zuurberg Trek, based at the Zuurberg Mountain Village near Port Elizabeth on May 29. \/\/ Photo: Morne Marais.<\/span><\/p>\n Race organiser Rob Hayter said his route building team had been hard at work to get the singletrack for this boutique event into perfect shape after recent rains in the area.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the rain has ensured that our usually dry Addo area is looking beautiful. Preparations are going well and all will be ready for a great event.\u201d<\/p>\n With participants expected from as far afield as Potchefstroom, Cape Town and Gauteng, Hayter said they would get a taste of true Eastern Cape mountain biking, which was often overlooked in favour of the major centres.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is still time for riders from other provinces and cities to join us for a challenging ride but one that is not unduly hard, with lots of comfort and relaxation built in.\u201d<\/p>\n To this end, he said organisers had introduced a popular luxury safari tent stay to accommodate the overflow of riders from the four-star hotel, which would be home to the event for the weekend of the race.<\/p>\n \u201cAlmost 20 per cent of our entries are mixed teams this year, so it\u2019s very pleasing to see more ladies riding and couples enjoying a relaxing weekend break together.\u201d<\/p>\n Fairview-TIB\u2019s Adriaan Louw (front) and Andrew Hill seen in action before powering towards overall victory at last year\u2019s PwC Great Zuurberg Trek. \/\/ Photo: Morne Marais.<\/span><\/p>\n Hayter said the daily distances had been reduced to provide a more accessible challenge for riders.<\/p>\n \u201cStage one is now 70km with a total ascent of around 1 500m and we\u2019ve built two new bridges to eliminate some compulsory portages.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the 77km queen stage on day two, which featured 1 900m of climbing, had also been altered slightly due to storm damage.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve removed the zigzag that everybody feared, smoothed the tracks and added an interesting new section down to Slagboom Dam.\u201d<\/p>\n On the 50km final stage, he said, riders could look forward to a piece of \u201csingletrack heaven\u201d at Hayterdale Trails and a final climb up to the finish on the historic Zuurberg Pass.<\/p>\n Enter at www.greatzuurbergtrek.co.za<\/a> before May 20. Follow @zuurbergtrekker<\/a> or find the race on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Addo is gearing up to welcome more than 140 mountain bikers from across South Africa for the second edition of the three-day PwC Great Zuurberg Trek, which is based at the Zuurberg Mountain Village near Port Elizabeth on May 29. The two-person teams will explore a 200km route that covers the Sundays River Valley and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4058,4057,630,1323],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-20037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-addo","tag-addo-elephant-national-park","tag-great-zuurberg-trek","tag-pwc-great-zuurberg-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037","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=20037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20037"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=20037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n