Young Sabine Thies is arguably of South Africa’s most exciting mountain biking talent, not only is she winning everything in her age group but she was recently crowned SA Elite Women’s DHI Champ. Kathryn Fourie tried to keep up with Beani for this interview. Driving out along the R614 from […]
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#MountainBikeKingdom
The Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho has a new hashtag – #MountainBikeKingdom and Mark West reckons it’s a fitting description. Completely surrounded by South Africa, our tiny nation is renowned for high mountains and rough roads. These tracks used to be the exclusive domain of intrepid 4×4 drivers, but now more […]
Reunion MTB Recce
It’s a tropical island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, with three calderas, an active volcano, awesome beaches and they want you guys to join us on a recce for MTBing potential, Carel and Liezl Neethling of Adventure Travel Reunion told Shayne Dowling. So he packed his bike box […]
Trail Pups
“FRANK! STOP! NO! FRANK! FRAAAAAAAAANK! FRAANKAAARRRGHFAAARRRKKK!” The absolutely desperate cry of Kath Fourie’s partner Mark, as his voices garbles into non-sensical hysterical roar. Mark throws his Santa Cruz Nickel to the ground and sprints into the pines chasing a black dog with white spotty paws. Frank, our Dalmatian X Bull […]
Staying Safe on the Roads and Trails
With the recent spate of cyclists being hit by cars or robbed of their bikes we thought we’d take a sensible approach and rather than play the blame game look at how you can take precautions to keep yourself safe on the roads and trails around Mzansi. First and foremost […]