The Randburg Police Mountain Bike Patrol Unit completed two successful patrols of sections of the Braamfontein Spruit in the past week, in an effort to improve safety for users of the popular urban riverside trail in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs.

Following a spate of recent incidents where mountain bikers have been attacked and robbed of their bicycles and other equipment while using ‘The Spruit’, as the trail is commonly known, the Randburg Police have mobilised their mountain bike unit, under the command of Inspectors Hein Van Heerden and James Swann.

The Sabie Experience, voted one of South Africa’s top cycling events for the past two years, has finally secured the perfect sponsor in York Timbers, the JSE-listed largest manufacturer of sawmill timber in South Africa.

Celebrating its fifth anniversary from 13-16 December, the four-day mountain bike stage race, based in the town of Sabie in Mpumalanga, is expected to reach even greater heights with the financial support from York Timbers.

KwaZulu-Natal’s newly-crowned Under-23 World Cup champion, Burry Stander, conquered a strong field, a tough route and muddy conditions to win the 2008 Pick n Pay Asishove Mountain Bike Challenge in Pinetown on Saturday.

The 21-year-old Mr Price GT rider won the inaugural edition of the race last year and was closely marked by his main rivals throughout most of this year’s event, which took place at Giba Gorge Mountain Bike Park as part of the Pick n Pay Amashovashova Weekend Cycling Festival.

As daar een ding is wat die boergemeenskap in en om Parys opgewonde maak, is dit wanneer een van hul eie “seuns” in die Ride Crater Cruise-bergfietswedren voorjaag.

En natuurlik moet hy wen.

Ben-Melt Swanepoel van die MTN-span het Saterdag presies dit gedoen.

Sy wentyd vir die wedren oor 101km was ’n meer as haastige 3 uur 22 minute en 95 sekondes. Dit is die tweede keer in drie jaar dat Swanepoel die wedren wen.