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It’s January, and the cycling world is not just waking up but starting to fire on all cylinders. With two Australian National XCO races, a UCI S1 stage race with the Snow Bike Festival, and the first race in the UCI XCM Series – 2018 is off to a flying start. This past weekend, a […]
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 […]
Swiss mountain bike racing legend, Christoph Sauser didn’t only mark his return from retirement at the Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge in South Africa on Saturday, he won the gruelling 121km race after the most incredible comeback following a mechanical delay early on. The 40-year-old Investec-Songo-Specialized rider clocked a winning time of 04 hours 50 […]
Five-time winner Ariane Lüthi (Team Spur) is eager to reclaim the Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge title that she won consecutively from 2011–2015. But the Swiss marathon champion will be up against the strongest field ever assembled at Saturday’s 121km point-to-point race, which is considered among the toughest one-day races in South Africa. A crash […]
South Africa’s traditional season opener, the Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge, takes place on Saturday the 21st of January. Along with a stellar field of local challengers, a number of European mountain biking stars are set to line-up for the 2017 edition. The race’s newly acquired UCI Status and its formidable reputation as the Hell […]
