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The DUTOIT Tankwa Trek international mountain bike stage race is expected to carry International Cycling Union (UCI) grading status in 2017 as the organisers continue to grow the stature of the event, which has fast become a calendar favourite for many of the world’s leading marathon and stage racers. Organisers, […]
The DUTOIT Tankwa Trek is pitched as the three day stage race in the country: hard riding for hard men and women battling it out for UCI points and pre-Epic bragging rights. So what of the weekend warriors like Tienie Bester? With a few races under my belt in 2015 […]
The DUTOIT Tankwa Trek, one of South Africa’s premier three-day mountain bike stage races, will be offering a significantly increased prize purse for the 2016 edition, which takes place from 12-14 February 2016. The total prize purse for the 2015 edition was R32 500, but now stands at a significantly […]
The racing was red hot around Valentines Day this past weekend at the start of the DUTOIT Tankwa Trek as Team RECM’s James Reid, fresh from his Trans Hajar win in Oman two weeks ago, and Erik Kleinhans set the singletrack alight on day one through the Witzenberg Valley, to […]
Erik Kleinhans and James Reid (RECM) won the 2015 DUTOIT Tankwa Trek, while Waylon Woolcock and Darren Lill (RED-E Blend) took the honours in the final stage The third stage was over 87km (26km neutral) in the Koue Bokkeveld. Woolcock and Lill won in 2 hours, 14 minutes and 21 […]
Darren Lill and Waylon Woolcock (Red-E Blend) won the final stage of the DUTOIT Tankwa Trek mountain bike stage race on Sunday, but the day’s runners-up, Erik Kleinhans and James Reid (RECM), secured the overall title after three days of fiercely competitive racing in the Kouebokkeveld region of South Africa’s […]
South African marathon champions, James Reid and Robyn de Groot showed impressive form on Friday when they each won the men and women’s categories with their respective teammates on Stage 1 of the DUTOIT Tankwa Trek in South Africa’s Western Cape province. Reid and Erik Kleinhans (Team RECM) displayed a […]
It may have been Valentine’s Day, but there was no love lost among the podium contenders on Stage 2 of the DUTOIT Tankwa Trek mountain bike stage race in South Africa’s Western Cape province on Saturday. From the beginning of the 89km stage, which started in cool conditions, the pace […]
Stefan Sahm (Team Bulls) won the second stage of the DUTOIT Tankwa Trek over 89km and 2240m of vertical ascending in the Ceres Valley in 3 hours, 51 minutes and 14 seconds. Erik Kleinhans and James Reid (RECM) once again won the team competition in 3:53.34 increasing their overall lead […]
