{"id":20898,"date":"2014-09-22T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2014\/09\/22\/video-lesotho-sky-day-1-highlights-r1644\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:54:25","slug":"video-lesotho-sky-day-1-highlights-r1644","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/video-lesotho-sky-day-1-highlights-r1644\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Lesotho Sky Day 1 Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 of the 2014 Lesotho Sky kicked off today with riders taking on the TOTAL Time Trial through the Mountain Kingdom\u2019s capital Maseru. The 24km prologue saw riders setting off at 90-second intervals starting and finishing at the Lesotho Sun Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The course set out some early challenges with plenty of tricky rocky single track separated by tight urban mazes and some fast open road. A final series of rocky climbs and trails took riders back up to the start \/ finish point.<\/p>\n<p>The Contego duo of Louis-Bresler Knipe and Gert Heyns took the top spot in a blazing time of 00:58:00. Local favourites Teboho Khantsi and Phetetso Monese (Alliance 1) were next in 01:02:01, followed by Mathias Nothegger and Guido Thaler (Craft \/ Rocky Mountain) in 01:05:36.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Video<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106739613?app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" title=\"Lesotho Sky 2014 Day 1 - Total Time Trial, 24km\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Results: <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.bikehub.co.za\/applications\/core\/interface\/file\/attachment.php?id=418930\" data-fileid=\"418930\" data-fileext=\"pdf\" rel=\"\">Lesotho Sky 2014 Results 1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 2 sees riders head into the mountains with a 52km loop from Rambanta tallying up 1580m of climbing. Riders are greeted almost immediately by the first brutal ascent of the Tar Nkesi Pass which is sure to split the field early.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-17009400-1411356188.jpg\" data-fileid=\"418931\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"418931\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"Route-Presentation-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-17009400-1411356188.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 of the 2014 Lesotho Sky kicked off today with riders taking on the TOTAL Time Trial through the Mountain Kingdom\u2019s capital Maseru. The 24km prologue saw riders setting off at 90-second intervals starting and finishing at the Lesotho Sun Hotel. The course set out some early challenges with plenty of tricky rocky single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":51290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[463,526,2984,135],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-20898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-gert-heyns","tag-lesotho-sky","tag-louis-bresler-knipe","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20898"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=20898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}