Boschendal Farm Estate between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek played host to the Fedheatlh MTB Challenge recently. With the main distances of 30km (half marathon) and 60km (full marathon) on offer, Team Full Sus went all out and entered the full marathon race. WORDS by Frans le Roux / IMAGES by Tobias Ginsberg […]
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All set for spectacular Eselfontein MTB Challenge
This year’s three-stage Eselfontein MTB challenge in Ceres starts on Friday October 12 with a gruelling night race, the main races on Saturday, October 13 and the final leg and prize giving on Sunday. This festival also has attractions for the whole family including supervised children’s play areas, a market-style […]
Family fun at the Midlands MTB Stage Race
“FAMILY fun” is the key phrase for KwaZulu-Natal’s newest mountain biking event, The Midlands MTB Stage Race which provides perfect holiday action on the weekend of June 29 to July 1. Appropriately based around Howick High School, the three-day event in the middle of the school holidays is loaded with […]
Team announcement for MTB African Champs (RWA)
2 April 2015 – Cycling South Africa’s Mountain Bike Commission has great pleasure in announcing that the following riders have been selected to represent South Africa at the 2015 African Mountain Bike Continental Championships in Musanze, Rwanda, from 8-10 May. The following riders have been selected according to the 2015 […]
2014 MTB World Champs
The 2014 Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships took place from the 1st to the 7th of September in Hafjell, Norway. For the South African contingent the 2014 World Champs proved to be a tough challenge with only James Reid (XCO U23) managing a top ten position. There was huge […]
Wake up and smell the rock gardens
Unless, you are a salary earning pro, mountain biking should only ever be about one thing – having fun. But fun, as Stirling Junior knows, is a relative term, and some people derive fun by winning their category, some love the fitness and long hard climbs, while others enjoy riding […]