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With just a few weeks to go until the 2018 Absa Cape Epic, the women’s field is showing its strength. The XXIII Winter Olympic Games kick off this week in PyeongChang, but at least one athlete from snow-mad Austria packed her sports bags for South Africa, and not South Korea. Christina Kollmann-Forstner bucked the trend, […]
Alban Lakata has won just about every marathon mountain bike race that is worth winning, including the world title three times. But as he heads into his ninth Absa Cape Epic, Lakata is desperately seeking the win that has proved elusive for one of mountain biking’s true stars. Lakata will once again team up with […]
No one can argue that Europe is the heartland of marathon mountain biking and stage racing. But at this time of the year all eyes are on South Africa, And now, the 2018 Momentum Health Tankwa Trek, presented by Biogen, is upon us. Well almost. While the South African marathon season is now underway after […]
The KMC-Fruit to Go team will be riding on Ridley mountain bikes for the 2018 season. The switch to the popular Belgian brand Ridley is a logical one according to the team. ‘With our team we do not only race mountain bikes but our riders are also active in beach races, cyclocross and gravel races. This means we are the whole year […]
With a strong record in marathon and stage racing, Japanese cyclist Yuki Ikeda will test his skills in unchartered territory when he makes his debut in the Liberty TransCape MTB Encounter in the Western Cape from next weekend. Currently based in Tokyo, the mountain bike marathon star from the Topeak Ergon Team will join up […]
The Liberty TransCape MTB Encounter, a seven-day, 614km race to be held next month, will be part of a concerted drive to support Africa Foundation. The event, supported by STANLIB and Volvo, begins in Knysna on February 4 and ends in Franschhoek in the Western Cape on the tenth. Now in its fourth year, the […]
In 2017 former Mountain Bike World Champion José Antonio Hermida and retired road racing super star Joaquim ‘Purito’ Rodríguez took on the Absa Cape Epic, and in 2018 they will put on their ‘Merida Factory Racing’ kit once again and head to the start line of the biggest mountain bike stage race in the world. […]
One of the most respected and historic mountain bike marathons on the Australian calendar returns in 2018 in a partnership with it’s sister event the ‘Great Otway Gravel Grind’ (G.O.G.G). The Otway Odyssey was one of the first mountain bike events in the country to embrace the marathon format in 2007. In it’s formative years […]
The 2018 South African mountain biking season gets underway in a few short days, on the 20th of January, at the traditional season opener: the Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen. The one hundred and twenty one kilometre ultra-marathon – from Chandelier, near Oudtshoorn, to Pine Creek, in Great Brak River – has once […]
Tiago Ferreira, twice winner of Andalucía Bike Race presented by Shimano comes back this year to contend for the final podium again. The portuguese is the current European MTB Marathon (XCM) Champion and World’s runner-up, title he won in 2016. Twice winner of Andalucía Bike Race presented by Shimano consecutively, in 2016 in team format […]
