The penultimate day of the Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race in South Africa’s Western Cape province added another twist to the 2016 tale with the rugged terrain delivering more tyre challenges that led to a shift in the overall podium positions with one day remaining. South Africans Matt Beers and Erik Kleinhans […]
Archives for October 2016
Cape to Cape 2016 Stage 2: bungles in the bushland
After a hectic first stage of the 2016 Cape to Cape, we have an idea of who the strongest riders are in the race. There are lots of them. There truly is one of the strongest fields in Australian mountain biking here in Western Australia. The time gaps from the first stage were small, and […]
Fortune favours Kleinhans and Beers at Cape Pioneer Trek
The tides are turning at the Cape Pioneer Trek, as South Africans Erik Kleinhans and Matt Beers turned up the heat even further on Thursday to win Stage 4 of the Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race; as overall leaders, Gawie Combrinck and Nico Bell, lost a chunk of their advantage when they […]
Cape to Cape 2016: Stage One. Enter sand man.
Related Event: Cape to Cape
The Cape to Cape mountain bike race has gone from strength to strength, building with such a crescendo that the event in southern Western Australia that attracts riders from the local towns, Perth, the east coast and from overseas. With well over 1000 racers, Cape to Cape is one of the biggest mountain bike stage […]
Kleinhans and Beers hit back at Cape Pioneer Trek
Mountain bike stage races are excellent for arm chair athletes. You can go back to the real world at work and home, then tune back in and realise these warriors are still clashing swords on a daily basis. And on stage 3 of the Cape Pioneer Trek, the prologue winners were back on top. Erik […]
Estonions eat up Cape Pioneer Trek
The Cape Pioneer Trek is powering on – and has almost seen a change of lead after another exciting day of racing. Estonians Peeter Pruus and Peeter Tarvis triumphed on a drama-filled day to win Stage 2 and close in on the overall lead of the Cape Pioneer Trek. Pruus, the European marathon champion and Tarvis, […]
Introducing Lomas Wefing – the next British XCM Champion?
I was on a bike before I could walk. Barely able to sit upright, my dad had me strapped into the child seat on his Edison 753. Born in Sheffield, England in 1998, I spent Saturday mornings with my dad racing across the city doing the weekend’s food shopping. As soon as my sister could stand, […]
Bell and Combrinck beat giraffe at Cape Pioneer Trek
Stage One of the Cape Pioneer Trek would always be the real deal, where racers would flex their endurance muscles and reveal what they had in store for their competitors for the week ahead. But did anyone expect such a start from Bell and Gawie? Off the bike, Nico Bell and Gawie Combrinck are soft-spoken […]
Gold Standard – La Tramun UCI Marathon
I’ve been lucky enough to visit some great places and events this year but La Tramun is now the gold standard for race courses. Part of the UCI World Marathon Series for the first time the Girona based event has grown a reputation over the past 18 years for its technically challenging trails. A week […]
Kleinhans and Beers take the lead at Cape Pioneer Trek
Late entrants Erik Kleinhans and Matt Beers were rewarded for their spontaneity when they won the opening stage of the 2016 Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race in Mossel Bay, South Africa on Sunday. Competing as Team Full Sus/Topeak Ergon/Red-E, the South African pair sped around the scenic oceanside 13km prologue stage in […]