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Exciting news for mountain bikers in South Africa… “Destination mountain biking” has evolved with the introduction of a reimagined event, the Knysna Bull. The new 3-day stage race is set for the 23rd to the 26th of February 2017 and is billed as the final Absa Cape Epic preparation race, […]
Di Carolin and Robbie Powell rode the spectacular iSimangaliso MTB stage race for Full Sus. Follow her on Twitter: @di_carolin, read her reports from Stage 1 & 2 here, or visit www.isimangaliso-mtb.co.za to find out more about the race. Stage 3 Last night was spent in a tent and at breakfast this […]
The second stage of the Glacier Storms River Traverse took place on the forestry roads around the Eastern Cape village of Storms River on Sunday the 7th of August. The 43.2km stage featured a notoriously tough climb and lots of scenic riding. At the sharp end of the race, Etnard […]
Young mountain biking stars Dylan Rebello (Momsen Factory Team) and Candice Neethling (Team Dorma) secured the Solo Men’s and Solo Women’s RECM Knysna 200 titles on Sunday. Both Rebello and Neethling capped the Garden Route Events stage race with their third stage victories to seal emphatic general classification wins. The […]
Simone van Aardt is riding the RECM Knysna 200 for Full Sus, with her mother Lolita, here’s her report on Stage 1. Follow her on Twitter for updates from the race: @simonevaardt. #RECMknysna200 Stage 1: Knysna Elephant Park to Thesen Harbour Town The stage’s start was, surprisingly, not that cold […]
Chris Wolhuter and Dylan Rebello crossed the finish line first, but former champions Andrew Hill and Adriaan Louw made an equally strong statement on the opening stage of the PwC Great Zuurberg Trek mountain bike race on Friday. The three-stage race, which is based in the Zuurberg mountain range at […]
Germany’s Karl Platt and Switzerland’s Urs Huber closed out the DUTOIT Tankwa Trek three-day international mountain bike stage race in South Africa on Sunday with a storming performance against a strong field, winning the final stage and extending their overall victory margin in the process. The Team Bulls 1 pair […]
Swiss mountain bike racing legend, Christoph Sauser and his Investec-Songo-Specialized New Zealand teammate, Sam Gaze, won a drama-filled Stage 2 of the DUTOIT Tankwa Trek in South Africa on Saturday. They outsprinted overall leaders Karl Platt and Urs Huber of Team Bulls 1 for the victory on what is considered […]
The dreaded Day 2 arrived with a shock when the 04:30 call shook me of of a deep, well-deserved, sleep. It must have been the exhaustion from Day 1 that allowed me to sleep so deeply because the race briefing the evening before had put the fear of MTB hell […]
The dealer principal of Subaru Cape Town, Tienie Bester, will be riding for Team Full Sus at the 2016 Du Toit Tankwa Trek. His daily reports will be up on www.fullsus.co.za and if you’d like to find out more about the race you can visit: www.tankwatrek.co.za. To read all about the […]
