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Words by Sean Paul | Images by OAKPICS Karoo to Coast is one of those bucket-list rides that one can always ride more than once. And so when the event opened up again fully in 2022 after a period of Covid related uncertainty mates Glenn Honeyman, Jon Burgess and I […]
Due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic the 2021 CCPP Group Lions Karoo to Coast Mountain Bike Challenge has been postponed until September 2022. This event has become one of the largest point to point events of its type in Africa and has been running since 1999. It […]
This year’s Pennypinchers Karoo to Coast took place on Sunday, September 21. The mostly downhill 95km from Uniondale to Knysna had 1560m ascent and 2280m descent. With final preparations for the Cape Pioneer Trek in a couple weeks time, most of SA’s MTB protagonists were present and accounted for. Team […]
More reasons to enter the Karoo to Coast In 2013 Full Sus made a bit of a fuss about the Pennypinchers Lions Karoo to Coast Mountain Bike Challenge, with Gary Kroukamp penning a ride report (read it here) and Jeanne-Louise Wiese making it the topic of her conservation column […]
without spotting a ghost… The great thing about this sport, writes Jeanne-Louise Wiese, is the fact that people tend to jump on board, pick up the free newspaper, buy the gear, enter for all the local races and convince their friends at a Friday braai to down their low self-esteems […]
Gary Kroukamp had heard a number of things about the Karoo to Coast. It was long, it was boring, it was in effect a road race off road with no single track, terrible corrugations, the logistics of getting to the start and away from the finish were difficult. Some of […]
