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25 March to 1 April 2012 sees the ninth running of the Absa Cape Epic. This race has quickly moved up to be at or near the top of most marathon / stage-racers’ wish-lists. Much of that is due to a combination of the toughness of the route and the amazing places it passes through. […]
I had a feeling, coming into this race, that I was going to have some kind of big mechanical. I don’t get that feeling very often, so I decided – employing almost no logic at all – that said mechanical would be a double flat and packed an extra tube. The race began and nearing […]
The Cape to Cape Mountain Bike Stage Race has been running between Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste since 2008, growing in size and stature every year. There are four stages over four days. The stages range from 38 to 68 kilometres. This is not as long as some well known Mountain Bike Stage Races in […]
Like any bike race, be it road or mountain, long or short – you can never tell the whole story. There is far too much going on. Various allegiences form and fall apart, micro-relationships may last for a section of trail or road, yet disintegrate due to the smallest of disagreements later. One of the […]
In a time where mountain bikers are being blessed with races with events held across the country almost every weekend of the year, there are a number of marathon races during the year which are a must do for any mountain biker’s calendar. Four of these increasingly popular events have formed the basis of the […]
This year, I’ve been lucky enough to have sufficient time off from work to ride my bike in an unusually large number (for me) of different parts of the world: Spain, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, and the US, in that order. Enjoyable as it all was, one thing it has reinforced in […]
Jeroen Boelen was attending the 2011 Crocodile Trophy in Queensland, Australia, to help his Team leader and owner Bart Brentjens win the title. In both 2009 and 2010 Brentjens was runner up to Swiss Urs Huber. A fever prevented Brentjens from starting, leaving Boelen in charge of affairs as the race started on a wet […]
