4:30 am wake up call to start the last of 3 days of (in my recently humbled opinion) one of the toughest and demanding races. With heavy legs the massive batch of 700 plus riders set of on a 11km neutral zone ride into the rising sun. With a rolling […]
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Tienie’s Tankwa | Day 2
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 […]
Tienie’s Tankwa | Day 1
It’s a while since I’ve have done a stage race. The reality of sleeping in tents in very confined spaces last night haunted me, with a shortage sleep the day started early. We started in batch B, which set off at 6:35. For someone that has never been to the […]
Follow the Tankwa Trek with Tienie Bester
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 […]