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Lesotho is a majestic place and the scenery improves once you’re on a bike. Regular writer KATJA STEENKAMP spent a couple of days flying at the Kingdom Enduro event. The adventure started with a 15-hour road trip from Cape Town to Lesotho intercepted with a quick overnight stop in Nieu-Bethesda, […]
Lesotho, the enclaved heart of our country, pumps fresh water through its veins, enriching the farms which feed us, stirs our imagination to wonder what lies within the high peaks and valleys of the mountain kingdom. And yet many South Africans have never passed through the numerous border posts to […]
Maluti Mayhem being held over the Easter Weekend (14th-17th April 2017) is not a race. It is simply an awesome weekend away created for those of you who love riding anything from trails to DH. It is for those of you who like the technical bits and downhills. It […]
By Shane Quinnell The Rocky Mountain Festival 2016 lived up to its promise of adventurous high altitude mountain biking madness at Afriski in Lesotho’s Maluti Mountains. It started with a bang on Friday the 4th March when the riders and their Afriski hosts rocked up and geared up for the […]
If you are considering to enter for the Lesotho Sky 2016, you’d better get going. As the event is growing in legendary status, the entries are selling out faster than two fatties on a tandem down Chapman’s Peak. Compared to last year this time, the entries have seen a 100% […]
The Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho has a new hashtag – #MountainBikeKingdom and Mark West reckons it’s a fitting description. Completely surrounded by South Africa, our tiny nation is renowned for high mountains and rough roads. These tracks used to be the exclusive domain of intrepid 4×4 drivers, but now more […]
It’s our annual New Year take-a-chill-pill tour! Due to popular demand we’ve decided to run our annual new year tour again! This time to Afriski in Lesotho! A mythical place we’ve heard about but never gotten round to exploring… OK, so not really mythical but I can pretty well imagine some dragons […]
Fines last night was a good laugh, and so were the videos of the day. In fact the whole week has been full of laughs and good humour. It’s been a very memorable week with a truly fantastic bunch of people; the camaraderie of the riders and the hospitality of […]
Roma to Ramabanta! I am naming this stage THE Beast! Never in my five years of cycling have I climbed and descended such massive hills. Today was 83.4kms and 2250m of climbing. We had a short fast downhill and then began climbing, Lolita’s legs took a while to warm up […]
