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The organisers of South Africa’s celebrated joberg2c mountain bike race have announced that the 2020 event, set to take place from 24 April – 2 May, has been cancelled due to the ongoing global Covid-19 (Coronavirus) crisis and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of South Africa’s ‘national state of disaster’. One […]
To all the crazy beautiful mountain bikers that inhabit this glorious but rough planet, this message is for you… Seeing how fast we filled up in 2019, we are expecting a nice opening surge so get ready to push the right buttons. joberg2c is a nine-day, 900km mountain journey across […]
The mixed category is where all the big money sits at joberg2c, the nine-day, 900km mountain bike race race from Gauteng to KwaZulu-Natal. And this year Amy McDougall and Mike Posthumus (dormakaba) were the big winners. The pair were dominant for all nine days, winning their category and claiming a […]
Every year thousands of South Africans who shouldn’t even think of looking at a mannequin wearing running shoes line up for ultra distance events. Almost every weekend, there are running, cycling, swimming or mountain bike events where Average Joes challenge themselves, sometimes for a good reason, and sometime because it’s […]
It’s a privilege to ride a bicycle on the joberg2c route. There are more than 200 farms crossed during the 900km event. Singletrack trails are hand-crafted for the riders. Temporary bridges are built so no one has to get their feet wet (though the heavy rains of a few weeks […]
All sports have their own quirky terminologies, and mountain biking is no different. There are berms, switchbacks, singletracks, drop-offs, dropper posts, table tops, dual-sus and more. But over the course of a nine-day event like joberg2c, an entire new conversation style develops – not quite a new language, but a […]
A nine-day ride like joberg2c is all about strategy. The elite riders in the field, the likes of Amy Beth McDougall and Mike Posthumus, who are leading the Amabokke-bokkie Global Mixed Category and currently on the hunt for the R100 000 prize money, train all year round. Their race strategies […]
South Africa is a mountain biker’s dream; there can’t be many countries where mountain bike events take riders over historical passes, across pristine beaches, through vineyards, over rivers, into valleys, down mountains, over mountains and on world class, hand-cut singletrack. However, there is only event that can take a rider […]
Next year is your chance to be part of something truly remarkable as South Africa’s longest mountain stage race turns 10. Entries for the 10th joBerg2c open yesterday. In short, you cannot afford to be tentative. The race dates for 2019 are 26 April – 4 May. The nine-day, 900km […]
Words- Doug Bird I’ve done a lot of racing in my time as a multi sportsman. It’s taken me all over the world to places like Austria, Spain, Hungary, Germany and Morocco. It’s taken me to parts of South Africa that one wouldn’t typically visit like Cradock, Bethlehem, Reitz and […]
