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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 […]