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Words by: Robin Moore | Images by: Ray Cox Not quite a hardtail and not just a full suspension bike. The 2020 Trek Supercaliber is a best-of-both worlds, and next generation XC racing bike. Trek introduced the all-new Supercaliber in late 2019, a radical new XC race bike with a […]
Words by: Sam Robertson I like to ride my bike. OK, I like to ride my bike a lot. This is not particularly unusual, most of the members of my cycling group are the same. And there are many such cycling groups. One particularly standout feature of almost every cyclist […]
Words & Images: Robin Moore I’ve been pedaling the GT Sensor Carbon Elite around my local trails in Cape Town, riding everything from snappy XCO type trails to longer marathon type terrain, to slightly faster and rougher enduro type trails – here’s my take. GT is known for offering cyclists […]
Words and Images by: Stirling Koetze Snr. When I first got wind of the news that the 11th edition of the iconic three-day W2W was introducing an e-bike category in the Pinotage event (Monday to Wednesday ride) my eyes lit up, my ears buzzed and my heart palpitated! I had […]
Words and Images by: Marc van Veen 60 Km – If you like “Snakes and Ladders” this is your route! To open up the lungs and warm those legs up, we carved our way up through vineyards and the natural bush to rise 500 m using gravel roads and singletrack […]
Words & Images by Shayne Dowling Sold as an out the box trail ready, all-rounder, full carbon bike. Does it live up to expectations? We hit the trails and put it to the test. Canyon has been pretty visible on the global MTB scene – particularly with Mathieu Van der […]
Specialized Turbo Levo Comp The Levo Comp was the first of the 2020 bikes to land in our office, and we were unashamedly keen to swing a leg over the latest iteration of what has the most cutting-edge e-offering in our market for the last few years. Unashamedly fast, the Levo range […]
Words & Images: Shayne Dowling START: McGregor (Western Cape) END: Nowhere – you have to do the ride to find out where that is THE JOURNEY: Hard but absolutely worth it! First off let me cop to the fact that this was the first stage race I have ever done […]
Full Sus planning meetings are famed for heading South, so it wasn’t a difficult sell to get SHAYNE DOWLING to pack the family into the car and head to De Hoop Nature Reserve … De Hoop Nature Reserve is a Cape Nature Conservancy that is in close proximity to Cape […]
No, not the biggest let-down since that New Year’s Eve; absolutely nothing crashed when Craig Kolesky clipped in this rollercoaster ride around the Klein Karoo. To be fair, nothing crashed then, either. Early August, 2019 (not late December in a previous century), and 400 riders arrive in the small town […]
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