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March 22, 2022 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Cape Epic Stage One 2022

The first stage of the 2022 Cape Epic took it’s toll! Both men’s and women’s leads changed hands, and the harsh conditions knocked many in the field around. Unfortunately, this also included the team of Imogen Smith and Gina Ricardo (Wilson Asset Management). Gina has been ill since before the prologue, and had to abandon […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, biking, cape epic, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, south africa, Stage Race, UCI, XCM

March 21, 2022 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Cape Epic Prologue 2022

The Cape Epic has begun with a searing prologue at Lourensford Wine Estate. The 24km loop with 700m climbing was made harder thanks to the high tempertures and dusty conditions. In this year’s event, our team rider Imogen Smith has joined Gina Ricardo for the Wilson Asset Management Team, racing in the UCI Pro Women […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, biking, cape epic, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, south africa, Stage Race, UCI, XCM

March 20, 2022 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

2022 Cape Epic Live Stream

The 2022 Cape Epic runs from March 20-27 in the Western Cape, South Africa. 8 days of racing in tough African conditions await everyone from World Champions to determined amateur racers. MarathonMTB.com racer Imogen Smith has joined Gina Ricardo’s Wilson Asset Management Team in the Pro Women’s field. You can watch all the action live […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, biking, cape epic, Live Stream, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, south africa, Stage Race, UCI, XCM

March 15, 2022 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Bike Check: Imogen Smith’s XTR equipped Norco Revolver for the 2022 Cape Epic

Imogen Smith Norco Revolver

In March 2020, MarathonMTB.com Team rider Imogen Smith was making the final preparations to race the Cape Epic with Briony Mattocks. Her Norco Revolver was prepped, she was fit, they were there in Cape Town – and of course the race was cancelled hours before the start. Countless teams were left wondering what to do, […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: Bike, BIke Check, biking, cape epic, Imogen Smith, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, Shimano XTR, south africa, Stage Race, UCI

February 7, 2020 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

CST own the first stage of Tankwa Trek

The global focus of marathon and stage racing currently sits over South Africa, as riders tackle the Tankwa Trek. While it is a prestigious race the Tankwa Trek also works as an ideal step towards the Cape Epic in March. The CST PostNL Bafang team of Sebastian Fini and David Nordemann, and the Faces CST […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bike, biking, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, south africa, Specialized, Stage Race, Tankwa Trek, UCI

January 20, 2020 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Beers and Stenerhag victorious at Attakwas

If we can say that the Attakwas Extreme puts a line in the sand for the 2020 endurance mountain bike season, then we can see that Matt Beers and Jennie Stenerhag have shown their cards and made their mark. The pair overcame formidable elite fields to win the Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme presented by Biogen. […]

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January 17, 2020 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Attakwas Extreme to open 2020 South African MTB season

The attention of the endurance mountain bike world turns to South Africa for the first three months of each year. It isn’t just the Cape Epic that brings in a big crowd, but it’s the top marathon events and shorter stage races as well. They make a group of racing where riders can test themselves […]

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September 28, 2019 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

XCM World Champs- Back of the Pack race report

Team rider Justin Morris whom also lives with Type 1 diabetes reports on racing the UCI XCM World Championship from the perspective of last place on the starting grid.

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Grachen, Justin Morris, Maddog, MarathonMTB, MTBA, Sebastian Jayne, St Niklaus, Switzerland, UCI, XCM, XCM Champs, XCM Worlds

September 22, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

UCI XCM World Championships Live Stream!

We hope it’s working, but the 2019 UCI XCM World Championships are being streamed live. Follow here and you can also follow us on Instagram for any updates via the feedzone at Kalpetran and from the finish. Not sure what the course is like – check out our preview. The race will be streamed in […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: livestream, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Switzerland, UCI, World Championships

April 25, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Malevil Cup attracts World Champs and Olympians

Malevil Cup MarathonMTB

The 20th edition of the legendary Malevil Cup – UCI MTB marathon series will take place on 8 June 2019. Routes going through the forests of the Lusatian and Zittau Mountains will host mountain bikers from all over the world. At this moment bikers from many European countries but also from United Arab Emirates are […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bike, Czech Republic, malevil cup, MarathonMTB, UCI, XCM, xcm series

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