Paralympian Michael Milton doesn’t do things by halves, and this year he’s set his sights on The Redback mountain bike stage race in Alice Springs. Milton lost a leg to bone cancer when he was nine year’s old however it hasn’t stopped him from doing what he thinks is fun. Michael Milton is one of […]
South African elite set for Zuurberg on Eastern Cape
Some of South Africa’s best-known mountain bikers are preparing to do battle deep in the mountains of the Eastern Cape during the three-day PwC Great Zuurberg Trek, which starts near Addo on Friday. Leading the charge for overall honours in the 200km stage race, and a share of the R100 000 worth of prizes, will […]
BeMC Stage 3 – Randonneuring
Rachel’s takeStage 2 was tough, but we all knew stage 3 would be tougher. Taking in the same distance at around 100km, but with 500m more ascent. So I decided that for stage 3 I would just ride. No chasing down the wheel in front, no worrying about places, just riding. I chatted to the […]
Tour of Homewood to showcase George
Related Event: Tour of Homewood
There’s nothing like mountain biking and a world class event to showcase your region to the world. But what about if you mixed golf and mountain biking? The Garden Route town of George will be transformed into a significant mountain biking destination with the introduction of the Tour of Homewood, a new three-day mountain bike […]
Belgian MTB Challenge Cup 2015: Day Two
Related Event: Belgian Mountain Bike Challenge
Today went something like: Hours 1-2: Smashy, smashy along some lovely fast fire roads. “Oh this is fun – I like going fast” Hours 3-4: Slog up rocky, lumpy hills. Plod along muddy singletrack trying not to fall into the odd lake that the off camber trail heads towards. Go up a hill, then straight […]
Belgian MTB Challenge Cup 2015: Day One
Related Event: Belgian Mountain Bike Challenge
Well that was a shock to the system! The first stage of the BeMC Cup turned out to be every bit as tough as I thought it was going to be and more. The field on the start list was a bit stacked and then as we were having a coffee in town prior […]
Bike 4Islands a huge success in 2015
Related Event: 4 Islands MTB Race
The first edition of the Adria Bike 4Islands MTB stage race has been run, won, and deemed a great success. The new event link the four islands Krk, Rab, Cres and Losinj. 200 cyclists from 19 countries took part in the race, which carried them over 270 kilometres of Croatia’s finest trails. Despite ending with […]
Defending champs conquer joBerg2c… again
Defending champions Gawie Combrinck and Johann Rabie swept to their second straight victory in the nine-day Old Mutual joBerg2c at Scottburgh on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast on Saturday. The EAI Cycling duo took half a dozen stage wins, including the final stage, en route to overall honours in the sixth edition of the 900km mountain […]
Second win for Combrinck and Rabie at joBerg2c just a day away
Gawie Combrinck and Johann Rabie look set for a second straight victory in the nine-day Old Mutual joBerg2c after consolidating their more than 19-minute lead on the penultimate stage through southern KwaZulu-Natal on Friday. The defending champions plunged into the Umkomaas River Valley and powered their way out the other side to claim their fifth stage […]
Roadies shake up stage 7 of joBerg2c
Related Event: Joberg2c
It was a battle of the former roadies as Hanco Kachelhoffer and Pieter Seyffert outsprinted their rivals to take the stage win on day seven of the Old Mutual joBerg2c mountain bike race on Thursday. The Altech Autopage Karan Beef pair hung on in a tight run into the finish at MacKenzie Club near Ixopo to […]