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Words: Tim Brink | Images: Bosch e-Bike systems E-bikes are here to stay. And that is a good thing, no matter how purist your views are on them. We were avowed anti-E-ers until we rode them, in appropriate conditions. The bike-shop car park is not the place to form an […]
They are here, people, and here to stay. E-bikes – love them or hate them – are getting people pedalling, and that is a good thing. Let’s open this e-issue of Full Sus with an open letter from Burg Wheelers Cycling Club member, BRETT FOURIE.. I was prompted to put […]
The step out the front door is probably the hardest one to take, even for veteran traveller Billy Stelling. After that first step, it’s one foot in front of the other, drawing on your life experiences to make reasonably educated decisions about what comes next. That doesn’t ever mean there […]
Words & Images by Ewald Sadie More than ever, the answer to that is yes, as EWALD SADIE discovered at the 2019 Enduro Western Cape Series. Following the successful first year of the Enduro Western Cape series during 2018, the EWC is back with a bang in 2019, selling out […]
Even JO DOBINSON was a trembling beginner, once. That was 25 years ago; today, she coaches MTB skills to some of the best, including us! There are three fundamentals that hold true for all riders, experienced and not. Whether you are cruising a trail, bombing a rock garden (you will […]
With apologies to Madonna (who does actually ride a bike), two-time Olympian ERICA GREEN wants to see more girls on the trails, enjoying the same safe and satisfying stoke the okes do. Read further as she destroys every excuse not to join the knobbly revolution. Gone are the days that […]
Even though Cuba is almost first world, equipment choice for Billy Stelling’s bikepacking trip needed to err on the side of wile, just in case. My choice of bicycle and equipment was quite personal, but there are many to choose from, even here in South Africa, with a variety of […]
Words by: Tim Brink | Images by: Nick Muzik / Luke Lockhart- Ross The FNBWines2Whales is on the horizon, and as we have come to expect, for 2019 there is a whole lot of same-same, but equal amounts of change in store for returning riders and newcomers alike. The format […]
We have all been there: 67km into a 65km race, with nary a sight nor sound of the finish. TIM BRINK set out to see how and why event organisers get this so wrong, or right. And who need the Altitude Adjustment Klap. It all started with a semi-heated discussion […]
It can be safely stated that the largest majority of bicycle mechanics in South Africa are not qualified to practice. GRAEME STICKELLS has the questions, and the answers. Maybe a bit of a harsh statement considering it is no fault of their own, as there has never before been formalised […]
