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Specialized Shuffle Their Decks Howard Grotts was down to start the 2019 race with three-time Absa Cape Epic winner Jaroslav Kulhavý, for Investec-Songo-Specialized. Along with Cannondale Factory Racing and SCOTT-SRAM, the partnership of Grotts and Kulhavý was among a trifecta of big favourites for the UCI Men’s category. Grotts’ withdrawal […]
Some of the world’s foremost mountain bikers will be battling it out at the Cape Town Cycle Tour MTB Challenge This coming weekend (Saturday, 2 March) will see some of the world’s top marathon and XCO pros line-up at the Cape Town Cycle Tour MTB Challenge. In 2018, this iconic […]
Supplied by Dryland Event Management Reigning Mountain Bike Marathon World Champion Henrique Avancini and his German partner Manuel Fumic have been crowned 2019 Momentum Health Tankwa Trek presented by Biogen champions.The Cannondale Factory Racing team won three out of four stages to finish with a hard-earned three minute gap on […]
The iconic 2019 Momentum Health Tankwa Trek presented by Biogen kicks off in just over a week. As one of the first big UCI events of the year riders will be looking to lay down a marker for the season ahead and gain valuable early points in the UCI rankings. […]
Not since Yolande Speedy rode to victory alongside Catherine Williamson in 2013 has a South African stood upon the top step of the Absa Cape Epic podium. In 2019 that could well change as two local riders have come of age as stage racers in recent years, while two further […]
Meerendal CBC Ladies riders reclaimed the Wines 2 Whales race title in the women’s category at Onrus Caravan Park in Hermanus this past weekend. Jennie Stenerhag and Adelheid Morath took the sort after title after achieving a day one victory and taking second place on day two and three of […]
Waylon Woolcock and Jennie Stenerhag got their 2017 Nissan TrailSeeker Series, Western Cape off to the perfect start when they won the men and women’s marathon titles respectively at Round 1 at Tulbagh at the weekend. Almost 700 riders participated in the event, which offered four distances and which took […]
Overnight leaders Waylon Woolcock and HB Kruger produced another controlled performance to create a telling gap after the second stage of the Liberty Winelands Encounter in the Boland today. The BCX pair used their knowledge of the region – Woolcock is from Stellenbosch and Kruger from Paarl – to build […]
Quickest out of the blocks on the early Botmaskop climb out of Stellenbosch, Waylon Woolcock and HB Kruger stamped their mark on the opening stage of the three-day Liberty Winelands Encounter today. Although the BCX pair were pushed at times, they eventually got away about midway through the stage to […]
Newly crowned Cape Epic champion Jennie Stenerhag is gearing up for what she believes will be another world-class experience at the Liberty Winelands Encounter. The 41-year-old Swedish ace partnered Swiss rider Esther Süss to victory in the Epic at the weekend and will now switch her focus to the three-day […]
