With a whopping 4000 riders entered into the Pick n Pay 94.7 Mountain Bike Challenge presented by Energade, which takes place on 15 November, the event now boasts the proud status of being the largest mountainbike race in South Africa.
And it’s little wonder. Backed up, of course, by a huge marketing campaign, the event was set to sky-rocket in numbers this year alongside the wonderful growth experienced in the sport of mountain-biking.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This weekend the quartet of James Perry, Jeremy Maartens, Nolan Hoffman and Johann Rabie took control of proceedings at the Medscheme Tour de Vino and ran out victorious claiming all three podium positions.
The race was contested by numerous top squads from the Western Cape with Team Neotel being the only Gauteng based squad to make an appearance. The early morning start saw riders being greeted by some fierce windy conditions that certainly became a factor during the already challenging race.
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Louis Meintjes of the Toyota Supercycling Youth Academy conquered extreme weather, an abundance of hills and strong opposition to become the 2008 Amashova National Under-16 Cycle Tour champion at the weekend.
The country’s highest profile road cycling event for Under-16s took place over five stages in four days in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on a tough course designed to test the young riders to the full. The weather also ranged from very hot and windy to cool and rainy, making the event a more complete challenge for the country’s…
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Cycling stars Robert Hunter and Andrew McLean entered for the 2008 Pick n Pay Amashovashova cycle race on Monday, just ahead of the 1 October entry cut-off deadline, in an effort to settle some unfinished business.
McLean, a former top professional and more recently a champion for the Toyota Cycle Lab veteran team and TV presenter, and Hunter, the Team Barloworld captain and South Africa’s only Tour de France stage winner, have decided team up on a tandem once again and return to the Amashovashova to try…
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Although the FPC Down and Dirty, held at Southdown College in Centurion, was a new mountain bike race on this year’s calendar, the turn out on the day was astonishing! More than 1500 mountain bikers took part in the 60km, 30km and fun ride races on a chilly Saturday morning.
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The first edition of the FPC Down and Dirty was held in Centurion over the weekend and boy, did it make an impact. The race, held at Southdowns Collage, featured a 60 km, 30 km and 2 kid's races that attracted around 1500 cyclists. With the large number of entrants, the race start was pushed back to 8:20 which also allowed things to warm up a little on what could have been a morning in the middle of winter.
The start was controlled by a lead motorbike which…
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