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| With the RockyRoads UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Pietermaritzburg at the Cascades MTB park less than two months away, officials are on track to complete renovations to the world-famous facility well in time to be able to welcome the world's best downhill and cross-country riders.
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| Returning mountain bike champion Brandon Stewart and team-mate Jacques Rossouw are set to resume their ongoing battle with Kevin Evans and David George at The Herald VW Cycle Tour in Addo just outside Port Elizabeth on Saturday, February 4. |
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| Virtually everything Burry Stander does between now and August will be part of his preparation to try and win an Olympic Games medal. The 24-year-old multiple South African and African mountain bike champion is one of a handful of South African athletes tipped to be in with a very good shot at a podium place in London at the 2102 Games. |
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| The second Columbia Grape Escape 3-day mountain bike stage race - due to take place in the Boland from 1-3 March - has already attracted the interest of major local and international mountain bike riders. |
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| Following a dream debut year in 2011, Team RE:CM, the South African-based professional mountain bike racing team, will tackle 2012 with a bigger team and a more ambitious racing schedule that includes some of the world’s most significant events. This was announced as the team was introduced to media, sponsors and key industry figures in Cape Town on Tuesday night. |
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| Mountain bikers who find South Africa’s longest paired mountain bike race a bridge too far, may want to consider the exciting six-day derivative announced by the organisers of the nine-day Old Mutual joBerg2c today. |
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| A growing demand for professionally organised mountain biking events in the Eastern Cape has seen two entrepreneurs start a dedicated business and take over the reigns of the off-road portion of The Herald VW Cycle Tour.
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| Patrick Morewood, the ex-designer/frame builder and co-founder of Morewood Bikes has confirmed that he has launched a new bicycle brand – PYGA Industries. |
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| Contenders in the Old Mutual joBerg2c, South Africa’s longest paired mountain bike race, will now compete for prize money on every stage, organisers announced today. |
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| Future Publishing, publisher of leading business, automotive and environmental magazines, has teamed up with TREAD – Mountain Biking With Soul to add more value to the growing South African mountain bike market. |
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| James Reid, one of South Africa’s brightest young bicycle racing talents, has been snapped up by Nedbank Team 360Life professional cycling team for 2012. Reid joins two of South Africa’s most accomplished professional racers, Kevin Evans and David George, on a team that’s had a hugely successful first year in 2011. |
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| South Africa’s longest paired mountain bike stage race, the Old Mutual joBerg2c, became shorter for some after organisers announced an innovative team relay option on Thursday. According to Craig Wapnick, the team relay, which forms part of the cross-country trail starting just south of Johannesburg on April 27 next year, was created for riders who long to experience the event, but don’t have nine days to spare.
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| Top South African bicycle racers, Max Knox and Jock Green will form the foundation of the Decca Ghost mountain bike racing team that was launched in Johannesburg, South Africa at the weekend. |
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| Thanks to the vision of Fritz Pienaar and Advendurance, talented mountain bikers in South Africa will get the opportunity during the MTN Sabie Event to test their skills against some of the world's best Wessel van der Walt, race director of the MTN series, announced that from next year the Sabie Event will be a UCI-sanctioned event where many international ranking points will be on offer.
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| Wines2Whales Commissaires, Arno Neethling and Richard Durrant opted to cancel the third and final stage of the Contego Wines2Whales MTB Race due to dangerous conditions created by wet and windy weather experienced in the early hours of this morning. |
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| Team RE:CM riders, Neil MacDonald and Waylon Woolcock finished their debut mountain bike racing season on a high note when they crossed the line together ahead of a large field at the Momentum 94.7 Mountain Bike Challenge in Johannesburg today. |
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| Cycling South Africa reports that the outcome of the forum meeting called by SASCOC (South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee) today in Johannesburg between SASCOC senior representatives and the Cycling SA board has reinforced the partnership that exists between SASCOC as the parent organisation, and Cycling SA. |
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| Matthys Beukes and Dominic Calitz were two riders on a mission in Grabouw today when they took on the second stage of the Contego Wines2Whales MTB Race powered by Maserati. Making short work of the 65km stage, Beukes and Calitz rode to victory in a time of 02 hours 42 minutes 06seconds. |
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| Dominic Calitz and Matthys Beukes charged to victory in Grabouw today, completing Stage 1 of the popular Contego Wines2Whales MTB Race, powered by Maserati, in a time of 03 hours 17 minutes 26 seconds. |
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| Having rapidly become established as a main player in the competitive global GPS industry, Bryton, the Taiwanese sports, fitness and adventure GPS electronics brand, is now finding direction in the Southern African market under a new distribution agency, Ballistic Bike Trading, headed up by Jason Theunissen. |
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| Mountain bike racing rookie, Waylon Woolcock, captured the overall title in the 2011 Nissan Trailseeker Mountain Bike Marathon Series, giving his RE:CM team another boost in its inaugural year. The Series standings were finalised on Monday after the fifth and final leg, which took place at Van Gaalen, near Hartebeespoort Dam at the weekend. |
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| Riders won’t have to get their feet wet in Saturday’s OUTsurance KZN Expedition and the organisers have also taken out the famous Silver Pipe bridge-crossing, which presented a fearsome experience for some riders in the past. |
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| Spirits were high today when over 700 mountain bikers crossed the finish line at Onrus Caravan Park after three days of magnificent mountain biking at the 2011 Contego Wines2Whales MTB Adventure powered by Maserati. |
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| A year largely filled with uncertainty will end with stability and focus for Brandon Stewart and Jacques Rossouw, two of South Africa’s top marathon mountain bike racers, following the launch of Team FEDGROUP – ITEC Connect at the weekend. |
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| In addition to barrier smashing features like wi-fi remote control and video streaming, the HD Hero2 is twice as powerful as it's predecessor in every way, The HD Hero2 democratises professional image capture and broadcast with support for remote control and live video streaming from virtually anywhere to the web.
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| 36ONE Asset Management today announced their continued support of the winning team from the Absa Cape Epic 2011, Team 36ONE-SONGO-SPECIALIZED as they look set to defend their title in 2012. This association forms part of a three-year sponsorship of the team. |
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| The dramatic new route of the ninth edition of the Absa Cape Epic, which takes place from 25 March to 1 April next year (2012), will be as exciting and challenging as previous years. Both local and international mountain biking enthusiasts will be taking on the demanding eight day mountain bike adventure of 780km with 16 300m of climbing from Durbanville to Lourensford Wine Estate. |
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| The Absa Cape Epic, the world’s most televised mountain bike race, announced its new apparel sponsor, Craft. Craft is known worldwide for its expertise in designing sport-specific garments for optimal function. |
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| The year didn’t turn out the way they’d planned, but elite South African marathon racers, David George and Kevin Evans of Team Nedbank 360Life secured a tough mountain bike stage race win when they rolled with a sense of satisfaction over the finish line in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape on Saturday to claim a dominant victory at the DCM Cape Pioneer Trek. |
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| The second edition of the Langkawi International Mountain Bike Challenge (LIMBC) drew to a close today. After five days of intense off-road action, top-ranked riders Karl Platt and Nathalie Schneitter took home the men’s elite and women’s elite titles respectively. |
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| Amidst the tropical splendour and the traditional haven of Kampung Tok Senik Resort nestled in the heart of Kuah, near here, Germany’s Karl Platt turned the tables on South Africa’s Burry Stander with an emphatic Stage 2 win on Day 2 of the Langkawi International Mountain Bike Challenge 2011.
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| Multiple South African and African mountain bike racing champion, Burry Stander (Specialized USN), won the opening stage of the inaugural Langkawi International Mountain Bike Challenge in Malaysia on Tuesday. |
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| The Scott Sports Group will be giving a new bike to Evan van der Spuy, the 17-year-old mountain biker who collided with a buck while competing in a race in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on Sunday. |
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| Leading accessories brand, FSA, has made steady progress in the battle against counterfeit copies of its products over the past two years and warns consumers and sellers to beware. |
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| Kevin Evans continued his reign as the king of the MTN Crater Cruise marathon mountain bike race in Parys, Free State on Saturday, when he became the first three-time winner of South Africa’s richest one-day mountain bike race. |
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| The first ever Western Cape TREAD Skills Clinic, presented by MiWay, will take place at Dirtopia Trails Centre, Delvera Farm, Jonkershoek on Saturday 22 October and will be the first in an ongoing series of clinics, designed to improve the safety and confidence of mountain bikers in the Western Cape. |
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| I’ve been watching the growth of the Silverback brand with much interest over the past seven years and really have to say I’m impressed with the progress. What began as a quirky, fresh bikes-and-accessories brand with 25 dealers in South Africa in 2004, has grown to a fully-fledged, highly respected international brand, now selling in 25 countries! It’s a great South African success story. |
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| The world’s best mountain bikers are certainly beginning to take note of the DCM Cape Pioneer Trek (17-22 October) which will start, as well as finish, in Oudtshoorn. |
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| Team RE:CM’s Neil MacDonald used his extensive road cycling experience to beat some of South Africa’s top mountain bike racers to win the inaugural B-Sure Life's a Journey Mountain Bike Race in Klerksdorp at the weekend. |
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| Reigning ABSA Cape Epic champion, Burry Stander (Specialized USN), captured his second marathon victory in successive weekends when he won the 105km MTN ’50 Miler’ mountain bike event in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday. |
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| Waylon Woolcock and Neil MacDonald finished first and second respectively in a clinical 1-2 finish for Team RE:CM at the Pennypinchers Die Burger Karoo-to-Coast mountain bike race between Uniondale and Knysna on Sunday. |
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| The Varsity College 12hrs of Pure Adrenalin, will take place on the 1st of October 2011. Hosted at Avianto Clubhouse in Muldersdrift the event promises to be a fun filled day for the whole family with a great mix of different events that will get even the laziest of individuals off the couch. |
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| After campaigning on the UCI Cross-country World Cup circuit for the past six months, Burry Stander (Specialized USN) made a triumphant return to mountain bike marathon racing on Sunday when he won the Sunday Tribune Jeep Hill2Hill in Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal.
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| The sani2c will become the first multistage mountain bike race in South Africa to add a third leg to cater for an ever-increasing demand, organisers announced on Tuesday. |
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| Neil MacDonald and Waylon Woolcock of Team RE:CM used road cycling tactics to outsmart and then out-power their rivals to finish first and second respectively at the Nissan Trailseeker Down and Dirty in Centurion on Saturday. |
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| As if the arrival of Spring wasn’t enough reason to celebrate, four lucky TREAD readers have won great prizes as part of three promotions which came to an end on 31 August 2011. |
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| The Absa Cape Epic, the most televised mountain bike stage race worldwide, has announced that riders in the Ladies Category will now be given the opportunity to earn UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) points at an HC (Hors Catégorie) race.
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| Multiple South African champion, Kevin Evans, put a series of disappointments behind him to grab a confidence-boosting victory over a strong field at the MTN Gravel Travel Ultra-marathon mountain bike race in Wellington in the Western Cape on Saturday. |
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| News from my last World Tour race for the year |
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| After two years of success in Johannesburg, TREAD Ladies Trail and Tea, presented by MiWay MTB, an initiative aimed at making mountain biking more accessible to women, will make its debut in KwaZulu-Natal.
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| The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano returned to the Czech Republic for the first time in 14 years with round six in Nove Mesto na Morave. In front of a home crowd of nearly 20,000 fans, Jaroslav Kulhavy (Specialized) won his fourth World Cup victory of the season, and wrapped up the overall title with one race remaining. Catharine Pendrel (Luna) took her second win of the season in the women's race, closing the gap to World Cup leader Julie Bresset (BH-Suntour-Peisey Vallandry). |
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| The first KwaZulu-Natal TREAD Skills Clinics, presented by MiWay MTB, will take place at Holla Trails, Ballito on the weekend of 3 and 4 September 2011. |
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| The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano resumes this weekend with round six for the cross-country specialists at the new venue of Nove Mesto Na Morave, in the Czech Republic. |
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| In an ongoing quest to empower mountain bikers to ride more confidently, TREAD Magazine is pleased to announce that the established TREAD Skills Clinics will now be presented by MiWay MTB, the mountain biking initiative of direct insurer, MiWay, and expanded nationally. |
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| The sixth round of the UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup presented by Shimano in La Bresse, France, saw Tracy Moseley (Trek World Racing) solidify her lead in the women's standings with her fourth win of the year, while her teammate Aaron Gwin locked up the men's overall title after finishing third behind Greg Minnaar (Santa Cruz Syndicate). |
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| Sunday the 28th August sees the Spring Classic turning sweet 16. Having moved a week earlier for the annual Spring ride, the Eqstra Spring Classic presented by First Ascent brings riders some early season training and excitement. |
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| This past weekend saw the final round of the Downhill series being hosted by Gauteng at the very rocky venue called Stonehouse Lodge in Hartebeespoort. The final event was held in typical Gauteng winter conditions, cold mornings and a very dusty course. As the name suggests, the course was incredibly rocky, but flowed surprisingly well. |
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| Consumers looking to purchase a bicycle online are being advised to check that they receive the equipment they spend their hard earned cash on, warns insurance company MiWay.
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| Philip Buys (Garmin adidas) and Mariske Strauss (Team Contego Giant) won the 2011 Die Burger MTB Challenge over 75km in Stellenbosch on Saturday. More than 3600 mountain bikers pitched for the event over five distances - 75km, 60km, 42km, 30km and 15km in perfect racing conditions. |
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| Raleigh International has changed its business model within the South African market by creating its own company to manage the Raleigh brand and distribution in South Africa.
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| Max Knox of Team GHOST-DOITNOW rode away to an emphatic victory at the ASG Walkerville MTB Classic on Sunday. Now in its 12th year of presentation, the Walkerville Classic didn't disappoint, attracting the top MTB riders to compete on a testing 60km route. |
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| New title sponsors for the Walkerville Classic, ASG Sport, are including a R200 voucher in every goody bag for pre-entrants into Sunday's big race. |
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| Over 450 women discovered – or rediscovered – the most important part of mountain biking today – fun! The Nashua Mobile Ladies MTB Day at Van Gaalen Cheese Farm was a huge success, enabling hundreds of women to compete in an event geared specifically for them. |
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| ITEC Connect, a leading provider of office automation, production printing and telecommunication solutions, has thrown its support behind Brandon Stewart, one of South Africa’s most successful mountain bike marathon and stage racers, with a sponsorship for the remainder of 2011. |
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| There’s a general concern for the depth of talent among female mountain bike racers in South Africa. But a few minutes in the presence of Mariette Kemp instills a strong sense of hope. |
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| Burry Stander (Specialized USN), a multiple South African and African mountain bike racing champion and London Olympics medal contender, cruised to a comfortable victory at the final round of the South African Cross-country National Series at Rietvlei Farm, Alberton at the weekend. |
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| Patrick Morewood, founder an co-owner of Morewood Bikes, has announced he is leaving the company. Morewood sent out a press statement this morning, which reads: |
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| The Competition Commission has sent notification that it has withdrawn its complaint against 28 retailers and wholesalers relating to alleged price-fixing in the South African bicycle industry. |
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| The third round of the National DH series returned to the scene of the World Cup track of Cascades in Pietermaritzburg. Only this time, we were welcomed by perfect riding weather, Blue skies and not a hint of rain. |
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| Some familiar faces returned to the top of the downhill podium in round two of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano, with South Africa's Greg Minnaar and Britain's Tracy Moseley each claiming wins at a course they've made their own over the past decade. |
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| On arguably the toughest course in Johannesburg, rookie Ryan Frerichs brought all of his motocross experience and a bucket full of BMT to take the win in style this past weekend. |
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| Hendrik Kruger and Theresa Ralph took gold in the men and women’s categories at the ProNutro Magalies Monster MTB Classic at the Buffelspoort Golf Course on Saturday. |
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| Cycle Lab Holdings, South Africa’s largest bicycle retail chain, has secured the services of legendary mountain biking pioneer, Steve Bowman, to boost the technical division of the brand as it continues its national growth. |
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| Probike shareholders Peter Miller and Brandon Els have jointly decided to structure the future of Probike South Africa and India under the Scott Group umbrella. |
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| The 2011 Subaru Sani2C 2011 was a massive success for Complete Cyclist on so many levels, including two podium finishes overall in two competitive categories.
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| Round two of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano saw new riders don the leader's jersey in each of the three cross-country races that took place on Sunday. The Dalby Forest track, in the northeast of England, proved to be tougher than many riders had anticipated. However, Julie Bresset (BH-Suntour-Peisey Vallandry) and Jaroslav Kulhavy (Specialized Racing) took strong solo victories in the Elite Women and Elite Men categories, while Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Lapierre International) rode away from the rest of the Under-23 women's field to win her event. |
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| Max Knox and Adrien Niyonshuti of MTN Do It Now won the Subaru Sani2C at the weekend. Here is Knox’s account of the popular three-day race.
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| A missed turn around 12km from the finish of the final stage resulted in the Nedbank 360Life team of Kevin Evans and David George losing the 2011 Subaru Sani2C. But on reflection, they gained more from the three-day race than they lost. |
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| Their partnership was broken by illness and they couldn’t defend their Masters’ title at the 2011 ABSA Cape Epic, but Cycle Lab Toyota’s Andrew McLean and Shan Wilson bounced back in a big way with a dominant performance at the 2011 Subaru Sani2C at the weekend. |
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| Max Knox and Adrien Niyonshuti’s luck changed course when they benefitted from a mishap that saw overnight leaders Kevin Evans and David George (Nedbank 360Life) lose out on a virtually certain victory at the Subaru sani2c in Scottburgh on Saturday. |
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| Team Nedbank 360Life's Kevin Evans and David George look set for their second title as a unit after winning the tough second stage of the three-day Subaru sani2c mountain bike race between Ixopo and Highflats in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday. |
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| Pre-race favourites David George and Kevin Evans edged ahead over the closing metres of a tight opening day to take the first leaders’ jerseys at the Subaru sani2c on Thursday. |
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| Team USN’s Cherise Taylor and Karien van Jaarsveld put in a late burst over the final few hundred metres to claim victory on Stage 1 and take the early lead in the women’s category at 2011 Subaru Sani2c mountain bike stage race in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on Thursday. |
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| David George and Kevin Evans (Nedbank 360Life) earned themselves the favourites tag for the Subaru sani2c mountain bike race that starts on Thursday after a dominating performance at this past weekend’s MTN Tulbagh ultra-marathon. |
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| Direct insurer MiWay has signed up as the main sponsor of Zululand’s Big 5 Mountain Bike Series, a major fixture on the annual KZN cycling calendar. |
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| It was a 1-2-3 for Trek World Racing's Downhill Men at the second round of the Pro Gravity Tour in the US at the weekend. The big surprise for some was that the winner was 'junior' rider, Neko Mulally (USA) who had a convincing gap of 2.5secs over team mate Aaron Gwin (USA) and another second back to Justin Leov (NZL), who is back on pace. |
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| Arianne Kleinhans (Contego-Giant-Sludge) achieved her second victory in the MTN Women’s Marathon series when she won the MTN Tulbagh race on Saturday. The Swiss rider had also won the MTN Attakwas event back in January.
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| After the heartbreak of having their Cape Epic victory hopes crushed by an untimely early exit, Team Nedbank 360Life’s David George and Kevin Evans bounced back on Saturday with a 1-2 finish at the MTN Tulbagh Mountain Bike Ultra-marathon in the Western Cape province of South Africa. |
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| A series of brand new cycling trails are up for exploration during the inaugural Knysna Seriously Strong 200 Mountain Bike Experience on 10-12 June 2011. Some specially cleared for the 200km three-stage race, trails will take participants into the wilderness surrounding Knysna featuring sea-side cliffs, indigenous forest, plantations and even elephants. |
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| Following the very successful inaugural Nguni Classic held last year where over 200 participants took part, the 2011 MTB race and trail run has some exciting new additions. Set in the rolling hills and indigenous forests of the Elandslaagte battlefields, the weekend family event has attracted a new sponsor, SA Can (SA Community Action Network), a community security network based system. |
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| The rider who wins the MTN Tulbach Ultra-marathon (105km) on Saturday will have the right to claim that he is one of South Africa’s top endurance mountain bikers the fifth installment in the MTN National series will see a star studded line-up with nearly all the top names present. |
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| During the past weekend Philip Buys and Marc Bassingthwaighte (Garmin-adidas) dominated the national cross-country event in Port Elizabeth by finishing first and second respectively.
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| Neil MacDonald and Waylon Woolcock capped a memorable nine days with overall victory in the second Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c that finished on the beach in Scottburgh, KwaZulu-Natal, on Saturday. |
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| Two of South Africa’s top road cycling professionals, Neil MacDonald and Waylon Woolcock of Team Bonitas, made an impressive entry into the mountain bike racing category when they won the six stages and the overall title at the 2011 Fairbairn Capital Old Mutual joBerg2c mountain bike stage race, which ended on Saturday. |
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| A drama-filled stage eight, the penultimate of the event, saw the overall lead of the Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c change hands for the first time in a week.
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| Overall leaders Brandon Stewart and Darren Lill survived yet more body blows to remain ahead on points after round seven of the Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c that finished at Mackenzie Club in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal, on Thursday. |
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| The Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c is fast becoming a two-horse race after another dominant performance by Waylon Woolcock and Neil MacDonald of Team RE:CM and Brandon Stewart and Darren Lill of FedGroup Berg and Bush on Wednesday.
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| Team RE:CM's Waylon Woolcock and Neil MacDonald sent a strong message to the overall leaders when they sprinted to their third stage win in this year’s Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c.
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| FedGroup Berg and Bush’s Brandon Stewart and Darren Lill took full advantage of the first technical stage of this year’s Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c to claim the win and the overall lead. |
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| Team RE:CM’s Neil MacDonald and Waylon Woolcock showed yesterday’s win was no fluke when they clinched victory for a second day in a row to retain their overall lead in the nine-day Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c on Sunday.
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| Team RE:CM’s Neil MacDonald and Waylon Woolcock outsprinted pre-race favourites Max Knox and Adrien Niyonshuti of MTN-DoItNow to win the first official racing stage of the nine-day Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c on Saturday.
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| Neil MacDonald and Waylon Woolcock gave Team RE:CM the perfect entry into the sport of mountain biking when they won the first racing stage of the 2011 Fairbairn Capital Old Mutual joBerg2c mountain bike stage race on Saturday. |
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| Team USN scored another one-two finish when national road cyclng champions Cherise Taylor and Marissa van der Merwe claimed first and second places respectively at the 2011 Aquelle Tour Durban Mountain Bike Challenge on Saturday. |
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| The top professionals played their cards close to their chests on the 115-kilometre opening stage of the nine-day Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c on Friday. |
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| Last year’s champion Andrew Mclean tipped MTN-DoItNow’s Adrien Niyonshuti and Max Knox for overall honours in the 900-kilometre Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c that starts on Friday and ends nine days later. |
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| Brandon Stewart, one of South Africa’s most successful professional mountain bike racers, begins a new phase of his career on Friday when he starts the nine-day Fairbairn Capital Old Mutual joBerg2c stage race.
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| American Aaron Gwin denied hometown hero Greg Minnaar the perfect start to the 2011 UCI World Cup Series when he secured his first ever World Cup win in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday by just two-tenths of a second. |
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| At the opening round of the 2011 Downhill World Cup, Trek World Racing's Tracy Moseley (GBR) and Aaron Gwin (USA) have walked away with the leaders' jerseys of the series after a display of blistering speed, strength, and determination in front of a huge crowd in sunny Pietermaritzburg. |
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| We struggled to find out what happened to Monster Energy/Specialized's Brendan Fairclough after his name came up as the first DNF on the results sheet of Friday's DH qualifying round. When we caught up with him, he was wearing a knee brace in the pit paddock. We asked him some quick questions... |
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| Nino Schurter from Switzerland and China's Chengyuan Ren stole the limelight on the penultimate day of competition at the 2011 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Pietermaritzburg. In the elite men's race Schurter showed just why he is the current world number one as he looked calm and in control throughout the exhausting race and stormed across the line to claim the third World Cup victory of his career. ? |
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| South African hopes of cross-country success were once again carried by Burry Stander at the opening round of the UCI World Cup in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday, but promising results from local Under-23 riders indicate there will be more riders on which to pin our hopes of success in future. |
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| Australian Jared Graves and Dutchwoman Anneke Beerten confirmed Pietermaritzburg as their happy hunting ground when they won the men and women’s 4X titles respectively at the opening round of the 2011 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup at the Cascades MTB Park today. |
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| In a virtual repeat of the 2009 edition, Australian Mick Hannah posted the fastest time in Downhill qualifying at the opening round of the 2011 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday. |
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| The much-talked about cross-country course in Pietermaritzburg, host city of the opening round of the 2011 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, was jam-packed with all of the discipline’s big guns during practice today.
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| Former Dakar Rally champion and this year’s runner-up Giniel de Villiers has signed up for yet another multi-stage endurance test – this time on a mountain bike. |
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| Max Knox, one of the country’s leading marathon racers secured his second victory in successive races when he was declared the winner of the Mr Price Karkloof 60km Marathon at the weekend. It was also Knox’s second victory for his new team Ghost DIN, a move that has revived Knox’s enthusiasm and given him new goals. The first victory was at the Sudwala Challenge at Mankele on 3 April. |
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| Following the successful establishment of a professional road cycling team in 2009, Malcolm Lange, owner of Team Bonitas-Medscheme, has, in conjunction with a new commercial partner, expanded his professional bicycle racing portfolio to create Team RE:CM, a South African–based mountain bike racing team. |
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| The ever-popular Mr Price Karkloof Classic mountain bike festival was once again successfully hosted in the most scenic of settings this past weekend, as ideal weather greeted thousands of competitors, both young and old, who took part in various races near the picturesque Karkloof Falls.
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| Stand a chance of being part of the TREK World Racing support crew for the first round of the 2011 UCI MTB World Cup in Pietermaritzburg later this month. It’s a matter of filling in an application form and you could win this unique experience… |
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| The breathtaking descent into the Umkomaas River Valley is set to make a welcome return to the three-day Subaru sani2c mountain bike race that takes place from May 19 to 21. March’s prevailing wet conditions – when the world’s largest full-service stage race traditionally took place – prevented this treacherous second-stage stretch from being included for the past two years. |
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| On his fourth attempt, Burry Stander became the first South African to win the ABSA Cape Epic when the eight-day, 707km mountain bike race finished at Lourensford Wine Estate near Cape Town on Sunday. |
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| No South African has ever won the overall title at the ABSA Cape Epic, but on Sunday, Burry Stander could change that. The 23-year-old KwaZulu-Natalian and his Swiss teammate, Christoph Sauser (34) have not only been consistent, but also dominant during the past week, taking five stage wins and two second places. |
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| South African Burry Stander and his Swiss 36One-Songo-Specialized teammate, Christoph Sauser asserted their dominance on the 2011 ABSA Cape Epic by winning the gruelling Stage 5 on Friday. It was their fifth stage victory in six days. |
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| South Africans Burry Stander and Karien van Jaarsveld and their respective international teammates, maintained their lead in the men and women’s categories of the 2011 ABSA Cape Epic after Stage 4 in Worcester on Thursday. |
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| The Cape Epic team of Toyota performed as well as their vehicles are known for, with each of the team members finishing in good time for the first 4 stages at this year’s ABSA Cape Epic. |
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| Stage 3 – Saronsberg/Tulbagh to Worcester (125km, 1900m of climbing)
The German team of Hannes Genze and Jochen Käss (Multivan Merida Biking) beat the South African/Swiss team of Burry Stander and Christoph Sauser (36ONE Songo Specialized) in a sprint finish by 2,8 seconds, securing their first stage win in this year’s Absa Cape Epic. Stander and Sauser still lead overall by 6 minutes and 15 seconds, with three times winners Karl Platt and Stefan Sahm (Bulls team) in fourth place overall and 8 minutes and 32 seconds behind the leaders. |
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| South African Karien van Jaarsveld and her Team USN partner, England’s Sally Bigham inherited the overall lead in the ABSA Cape Epic mountain bike stage race on Tuesday night. And then proved on Wednesday that they deserved that honour by winning one of the toughest stages in the race’s history. |
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| South African Burry Stander and his Swiss teammate, Christoph Sauser of the 36One-Songo-Specialized team, stormed to a third consecutive stage victory and extended their overall lead on Day 3 of the 2011 ABSA Cape Epic on Tuesday. |
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| As if the name did not already suggest it, this past weekend’s Gauteng Provincial was a very rocky one. The downhill circus pulled into a little town called Hartebeespoort, to a very timid looking lodge called Stonehouse. |
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| On a dramatic day that saw one South African ABSA Cape Epic victory hope fade, another surged on the brutal 89km Stage 1 that started and finished at Saronsberg in Tulbach. While Kevin Evans (Nedbank 360Life) headed to a hospital ER to confirm his broken collarbone after a crash on a treacherous descent, his compatriot and rival, Burry Stander (36One-Songo-Specialized) was standing on the top step of the podium, celebrating his second consecutive stage win along with Swiss teammate, Christoph Sauser. |
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| The second prologue in the seven year history of the Absa Cape Epic presented by adidas, which is a common feature in grand road tours, set the seeding order for tomorrow’s [Monday, 28 March 2011] Stage 1 of the magical, untamed and African mountain bike stage race. |
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| Karien van Jaarsveld (Team USN) captured the most important title of her short racing career when she finished second overall, but first South African at the drama-filled South African Marathon Mountain Bike Championships at Inanda near Durban today. |
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| Mountain bike racing star, Burry Stander (Specialized USN), continued to impress with his versatility when he outsprinted defending champion, Kevin Evans (Team 360Life), to win the Elite Men’s South African Marathon Championship title at Inanda, near Durban today. |
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| Two-time ABSA Cape Epic Masters Category champion, Andrew McLean, has ruled himself out of the race to defend the coveted title at the 2011 edition of the gruelling eight-day mountain bike stage race, which starts in Cape Town on Sunday 27 April. |
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| The 2010 South African Under-23 National Cross Country Champion, Philip Buys, will team up with good friend and Namibian Cross Country Champion Marc Bassingthwaighte for the eighth edition of the Absa Cape Epic, taking place from 27 March to 3 April 2011. |
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| One of the more successful mixed mountain bike racing pairs in South Africa, Yolande de Villiers (38) from Oudtshoorn and Johan Labuschagne (39) from Pretoria, will once again compete in this year’s Absa Cape Epic as team Cycle Lab KTM and no doubt provide much excitement in the Mixed category. |
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| Legendary Tour de France commentator Phil Liggett will indulge his twin passions of cycling and South Africa when he sets off on the nine-day Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c from April 29. |
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| Since announcing the complete roster of Trek World Racing athletes for the upcoming season, planning has been in full swing with the confirmation of the all-important co-sponsors of the program, as well as the support staff, and the team's participation in the first test camp of the year. |
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| Bart Brentjens of the Netherlands, the 2005 winner of the Absa Cape Epic, two times Olympic medallist, former World Champion and World Cup winner, former European Champion, National Marathon Champion and twelve times National Cross Country Champion, will return for his sixth Absa Cape Epic presented by adidas this year. |
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| Yolandé Speedy (MTN Qhubeka) will be a rider on a mission during the South African marathon championship, which starts and finishes at Inanda Dam in KwaZulu-Natal’s Valley of a Thousand Hills on Saturday. |
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| Burry Stander (Specialized USN) showed why he’s one of the world’s best mountain bike racers when he cruised to a clinical, dominant victory at the 2011 South African Olympic Cross-country championships in Stellenbosch on Saturday. |
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| Cape Town was lucky enough to again play host to an all important round of the downhill race calendar, the South African National MTB Championships held at Contermanskloof in Durbanville. A strong field of 105 competitors entered for what was to be a very hot and dusty weekend of racing. As the XC Championships had been scheduled for the following weekend, the usual festive atmosphere was somewhat absent from what has become the norm for our travelling circus. |
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| Team 360Life’s Kevin Evans and David George received a welcome boost in their quest to become the first South Africans to win the ABSA Cape Epic when they claimed the first two places overall at the Columbia Grape Escape, which ended in Franschhoek today. |
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| South African road cycling star Cherise Taylor (Team USN) captured her first solo mountain bike stage race victory today when she won the final stage and the overall title at the inaugural Columbia Grape Escape in Franschhoek. |
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| Multiple South African road cycling champion, Cherise Taylor (Team USN), showed her versatility on Saturday when she won Stage 2 and took the overall lead in the Columbia Grape Escape mountain bike stage race in Franschhoek today. |
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| Four-time ABSA Cape Epic champion, Karl Platt (Team Bulls) won his second consecutive stage when he outsprinted an elite lead group on Stge 2 of the Columbia Grape Escape in Franschhoek today. |
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| German stage racing start, Karl Platt (Team Bulls) won the first stage of the inaugural Columbia Grape Escape on Friday in a nail-biting finish which saw him outsprint South African marathon champion, Kevin Evans and David George (both Team 360life). |
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| The SHIMANO ACCU3D R windbreaker has been selected for a prestigious Gold Award at the iF Product Design Award 2011 ceremony at the CeBIT trade fair in Hannover, Germany. |
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| Race organisers have shown their support for professional cycling in South Africa by announcing a lucrative prize purse for the nine-day Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c mountain bike race. |
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| Inanda Dam is the place to be on the 20th March if you are a mountain biker, as the SA Marathon Champs comes to KZN in association with the City Of Durban. Expect the country’s top riders, with the likes of defending champion Kevin Evans, his 360Life teammate David George and 2010 marathon world champs bronze-medallist, Burry Stander (Specialized USN) all confirming their entries to date. |
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| Ex-Springbok prop Adrian Garvey will take up the challenge of riding the legendary Absa Cape Epic - a gruelling 707km mountain bike race with 14 550m of climbing. |
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| Karl Platt (Team Bulls) proved on Saturday by winning the MTN Sabie ultra-marathon that patience is a virtue. |
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| With last year’s sponsor once again throwing its weight behind the event, it’s all systems go for the second edition of South Africa’s longest full-service mountain bike stage race. |
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| German stage-racing star, Karl Platt, showed good form ahead of next month’s ABSA Cape Epic when he powered to victory at the MTN Sabie Ultra-marathon in Sabie, Mpumalanga on Saturday. |
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| A dress rehearsal for next month’s Absa Cape Epic is what Saturday’s MTN Sabie ultra-marathon might just boil down to. Germany’s Karl Platt (Team Bulls) who has won the Cape Epic four times, will be on the start line at one of South Africa’s favourite races. |
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| Samsung Business has become the latest multi-national corporation to target the mountain biking market with the launch of the Samsung Business Corporate MTB Series, which gets underway next month. |
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| The old faithful, slightly elevated hill on graphite road that is also affectionately called Heldekruit, hosted the opening round of the Mongoose Gauteng Provincial Downhill Cup this past weekend. A very strong rider entry was welcomed by all, and of particular interest was the significantly bigger than usual Junior category. I am no rocket scientist, but this is a good sign for the future of our very niche sport. |
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| South Africa’s Burry Stander (Specialized USN) put in a dominant performance at Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch near Cape Town on Saturday to retain the African Elite men’s cross-country mountain bike racing title.
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| Neither spiders nor searing heat could deter Team DCM’s Brandon Stewart and Max Knox from making a one-two clean sweep at the 85km Extreme Challenge in Addo just outside Port Elizabeth on Saturday. |
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| The Absa Cape Epic presented by adidas, the most televised mountain bike stage race in the world, has secured Telkom Business as partner of the prestigious event as well as live broadcasts of racing on the first and last day on SuperSport. |
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| Max Knox (DCM) pulled off a rare hat-trick when won the won the MTN Barberton ultra-marathon (120km) on Saturday – for the third year in succession! He attacked at the same place he launched his winning-attack last year and enjoyed the same outcome. |
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| Max Knox (Team DCM) raced to a dominant victory at the 110km MTN Barberton Ultra-marathon in Mpumalanga on Saturday, successfully defending his title in one of the country’s most gruelling mountain bike races. |
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| A number of the world’s top mountain bike racers have secured their entries for the Columbia Grape Escape, the new 3-day MTB stage race taking place from 4-6 March 2011. There are only about 100 available entries left. |
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| Port Elizabeth mountain biker Andrea von Holdt announced herself as a contender for The Herald VW Cycle Tour’s Extreme Challenge when she finished runner-up in the Attakwas half-marathon just outside George recently. |
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| Nissan will succeed Miway as the title sponsor of the National Half-Marathon Series in 2011. This was announced on Wednesday by Wessel van der Walt, chief events co-coordinator of Advendurance, the company that owns the popular series that’s run in conjunction with the MTN Ultra-marathon and Marathon Series. |
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| Entries for the Emperors Palace MTB Classic close on Wednesday (26 January 2011). Riders who still want to enter for the popular East Rand event need to make haste to beat the cut-off. |
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| Two of South Africa’s most talented and successful cyclists, Kevin Evans and David George, have broken with tradition and formed their own two-rider professional team in an effort to win some of the world’s most important mountain bike racing titles. |
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| South Africa’s status as a premier mountain bike racing destination has received a further boost with the news that the cross-country (XC) and downhill (DH) events at the 2011 Mr Price Karkloof Festival will offer International Cycling Union rankings points. |
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| Teenager Caitlin de Wet gave her new employers immediate payback when she won the 52km Nissan half-marathon at the Attakwas mountain bike event in Groot Brak River outside George on Saturday. |
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| Last year’s runner-up, David George (Team 360Life), who was all smiles on Saturday afternoon, had every reason to be satisfied. He had just won the MTN Attakwas 121km ultra-marathon from Oudtshoorn to George, widely regarded to be South Africa’s toughest one-day mountain bike race. |
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| David George confirmed his transition from star road racer to star mountain biker when he beat a strong field to win the MTN Attakwas 121km ultra-marathon in Oudtshoorn on Saturday.
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| A ‘new King’ will be crowned at the end of the 2011 MTN mountain biking ultra-marathon series. Kevin Evans (360 Life), who has dominated the series during the past seven years, will miss at least the first three races of the series due to a recent emergency appendectomy. |
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| Olympic medal contender, Burry Stander, has teamed up with USN, a leading sports nutrition brand, for 2011. The former Under-23 World Champion in the Olympic Cross-country discipline is one of the world’s leading mountain bike racers and one of South Africa’s strongest medal hopes for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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| With the addition of several key World Cup riders in downhill and cross-country racing, the Giant Factory Off-Road Team will field its strongest lineup ever in 2011. South African downhiller Andrew Neethling and three-time elite British cross-country champion Liam Killeen join a diverse squad that includes 19-year-old World Cup downhill sensation Danny Hart of Great Britain.
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| There is no guarantee that a South African mountain biker will win the MTN Attakwas ultra-marathon race on Saturday, 15 January. For the first time there will be international ranking points on offer, it is a safe bet to say that the overseas ‘visitors’ will race to win. |
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| The MTN Marathon Series, the most prestigious mountain bike racing series in Africa, has been given a boost for 2011 with increased prizemoney and international rankings points.
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| Knysna Tourism CEO Shaun van Eck said that the town was getting ready to welcome the newest major South African cycling event to its already impressive stable of competitive outdoor events. “The Cannondale Garden Route 300 will take place on the 25th, 26th and 27th of February 2011,” said van Eck. “And it promises to be three adrenaline-filled days.” |
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| Entries for the Grape Escape, the new 3-day MTB stage race taking place from 4 -6 March 2011, open tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12h00 midday.
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| Yet another MTB stage race will join the South African racing calendar in 2011. This one's got the backing of the world's biggest road race behind it, the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour, so expect impeccable organisation. What's it called? Well it doesn't have a name yet, but it will have a 750-rider limit and it will open for entries on 1 December 2010. |
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| Adriaan Louw and Louis-Bresler Knipe of team Contego Elite continued their winning streak in Onrus on Sunday, 14 November 2010 when they won Stage 3 and the overall title at the Contego Wines2Whales MTB Race. Their combined race time over the three day period was 10hours 33minutes 39seconds. |
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| Adriaan Louw and Louis-Bresler Knipe of team Contego Elite took no prisoners during Stage Two of the Contego Wines2Whales MTB Race. Crossing the finishing line first in a time of 03hours24minutes48seconds, Team Contego Elite will start Stage Three on Sunday, 14 November 2010 just 36 seconds down on reigning champions and currently leaders Oliver Munnik and Erik Kleinhans of team GT Mr Price William Simpson. |
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| Stage 1 of the Contego Wines2Whales MTB Race saw a sprint finish with Erik Kleinhans and Oliver Munnik of team GT Mr Price William Simpson crossing the line seconds ahead of runners up Adriaan Louw and Louis-Bresler Knipe of team Contego Elite. Cherise Taylor and Karien van Jaarsveld of Team USN were the first home in the women's division.
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| Sabie, a valley town surrounded by forested Mpumalanga mountains, is rich in SA MTB history and is now set to move into the future with a network of new marked trails.
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| It was third time lucky for MTN-Energade’s Kevin Evans as he soloed to his first victory in the Mondi Herald Addo Mountain Bike Challenge on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth today. |
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| Former champion Brandon Stewart expects his last race of the season to go down to the wire as he bids to recapture his title at the Mondi Herald Addo Mountain Bike Challenge just outside Port Elizabeth on Sunday. |
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| A combination of some unfinished mountain bike racing business and a comprehensive health-is-wealth business extension from one of South Africa’s leading financial institutions, has led to the creation of a new professional mountain bike racing team for 2011.
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| 8TH ABSA CAPE EPIC ROUTE LIVES UP TO LEGENDARY REPUTATION OF MAGICAL AND UNTAMED AFRICAN MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE |
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| Omnico, one of the largest wholesalers in the South African bicycle industry, has expanded its parts and accessories offering and reaffirmed its commitment to value-for-money bikes for 2011.
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| BLIND ADVENTURER HEIN WAGNER TO TAKE ON EPIC RACE WITH PRAGMA’S GERRIE OLIVIER AS PILOT |
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| R500 000 UP FOR GRABS IN NEXT YEAR’S ABSA CAPE EPIC |
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| Brandon Stewart and Jacques Janse van Rensburg (DCM) won Stage 5 of the DCM Cape Pioneer Trek on Friday. The pair won a bunch sprint to clock a winning time of 4 hours 45 seconds for the 105km haul from Prince Albert to Calitzdorp. |
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| South African Max Knox and his Swiss teammate, Thomas Zahnd, riding for Team DCM, tightened their grip on the overall lead of the DCM Cape Pioneer Trek on Thursday when they won a third stage in the gruelling six-day race.
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| Switzerland’s former double world champion and his compatriot, Silvio Bundi, racing in the colours of Team Specialized-Songo.info sprinted to victory on Stage 3 of the DCM Cape Pioneer Trek in De Rust on Wednesday. |
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| The DCM pairing of Max Knox and Thomas Zahnd (DCM) continued where they left off on Monday when they won Tuesday’s Stage 2 of the DCM Cape Pioneer Trek. |
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| Over the last four days it has been a case of different day, different province, different mountain bike tour and even different teammate. The only constant seems to be Max Knox of DCM’s desire to “kill off” his rivals one by one with his cool and calculating hard riding. |
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| Erik Kleinhans and Oliver Munnik will be fighting fit in November when they defend their title at the second annual Contego Wines2Whales MTB Race taking place from 12 until 14 November 2010, starting at Lourensford Wine Estate in Somerset West and ending at Onrus Caravan Park, Hermanus. |
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| Kevin Evans (MTN Energade) became the first rider to defend his title at the MTN Ride Crater Cruise Ultra-marathon in Parys at the weekend, but admitted that it was one of the toughest challenges he’s faced. |
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| Yolandi du Toit from Team bizhub signed off her 2010 MTN Series campaign in fine style by successfully defending her title at the MTN Ride Crater Cruise mountain bike marathon over 101 testing kilometres in Parys at the weekend. |
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| Some of the biggest names in mountain biking, including Greg Minnaar, Cedric Gracia and Rob Roskopp will be at Holla Trails, Ballito to launch a few exciting new initiatives on Thursday, 14 October. |
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| Burry Stander, double world championship medallist in 2010, was a guest presenter at the Specialized 2011 model range launch held in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Stander spoke with conviction and passion about the new S-Works Epic, a bike he’s been involved with the development of since January 2010 as part of Specialized’s pro-rider test team. |
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| Max Knox fought a fascinating duel with former South African road champion David George and defending champion Brandon Stewart before edging to a seven-second victory in the fifth Sunday Tribune Jeep Hill 2 Hill Mountain Bike Marathon on Sunday. |
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| Momsen Design, the newest South African MTB bike and accessories brand, is smartly making sure it’s catering for the fast-growing 29-inch bike market with the arrival of its first 29-er frame kits this spring. |
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| Stan’s NoTubes announced today that Two Wheels Trading will be the exclusive distributor of all NoTube’s products in South Africa. |
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| The Silverstar Casino to the west of Johannesburg played host to the third edition of the Silverstar Casino MTB Challenge this past weekend. Winner, Melt Swanepoel describes how the race unfolded. |
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| There are underprivileged kids that love mountain biking as much as we do. But, as Andrian Burford discovered on a recent ride, they don't have very much in the way of gear. And if they do have gear, it's ready for the bin. Read on to see how you can help a lot by doing something very small. |
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| The third and final round of the Anatomic High School Series takes place at Northern Farms near Fourways, Johannesburg on Saturday, and teachers from more than 60 high schools in and around Gauteng (and others from as far afield as Howick in KZN and Lydenburg in Mpumalanga), will be encouraging every boy and girl to get out on the trail and tracks to uphold school honour.
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| South Africa’s Burry Stander achieved his main goal for the year when he collected the bronze medal at the 2010 Elite Men’s XCO race at the UCI World Champs in Canada at the weekend. |
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| South Africa’s most decorated cyclist ever, Greg Minnaar, proved his incredible consistency once again, when he finished with the bronze medal at the 2010 UCI Downhill World Champs in Canada. But consistency is not what Minnaar is after these days.
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| The 20th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships is ready for take off in one of the world’s best known mountain bike resorts: Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada. From today, 629 athletes from 37 nations will fight for the coveted rainbow jerseys in the downhill, 4-cross and cross-country disciplines. |
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| South Africa finished 11th in the Team Relay, the opening event of the 2010 UCI MTB World Champs in Mont-St-Anne, Canada on Wednesday. Burry Stander, Yolande Speedy, Philip Buys and James Reid represented the South African team, and finished 6min 09sec behind winners, Switzerland. |
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| The 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano concluded in Windham, New York state at the weekend, with some of the most exciting racing of the season. Five of the six overall titles were decided in just the final moments of competition. |
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| Ischen Stopforth (Bizhub) made a triumphant return to racing after a lengthy injury layoff when she won the Elite women’s race at the fifth round of the MTN National Marathon Series event in Cullinan at the weekend. |
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| Kevin Evans (MTN-Energade) sprinted to victory in the fifth round of the MTN National Marathon Series in Cullinan at the weekend, wrapping up a record sixth title in the prestigious series in the process.
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| After signing South African women’s road cycling champion, Cherise Taylor, earlier this month, Ultimate Sports Nutrition (USN) has announced it will also sponsor the country’s brightest new cycling star, Karien van Jaarsveld. |
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| It seems that, if the brains trust of the Dryland Event Management could have their own way, the Southern Cape and Klein Karoo would become the mecca for South African holiday makers who cannot resist a good physical challenge. |
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| Some of South Africa’s top mountain bike racers lined up at the start of the 2010 Audi Lost City Mountain Bike Challenge on Sunday, but it was rising star, Renier Bellingan (USN), that grabbed the limelight when he won the popular event. |
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| Just when it seemed as if the 29er revolution had begun to taper off, along comes Swiss champion, Florian Vogel and creates a new milestone, becoming the first rider to win a major race in Europe on a big-wheeler. |
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| South African-born Silverback is going global in 2011 and the brand’s comprehensive range, launched in Johannesburg on Saturday 21 August, undoubtedly has the potential to succeed. |
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| With the second round of the Anatomic High School MTB League – the Tour de Dam – concluded at Hartbeespoort High School on August 14, the pecking order for lasses seems well and truly established – but the opposite is true when it comes to the lads…. |
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| To journey from Limpopo Valley Airfield in Botswana to Mapungubwe National Park in South Africa is a 30-minute drive by vehicle. With the cooperation of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the Tour de Tuli has collectively turned the journey into a 310km, four-day mountain biking adventure that continues to grow in popularity whilst generating revenue to educate rural children on life skills and the merits of conservation. These rural children live on the peripheries of wildlife areas in seven SADC countries and in the future will be amongst those responsible for the sustainability of these wilderness areas. |
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| The barrier to entry for mountain biking is the new battle ground in the South African cycling market as various brands vie for favour in the all-important, high volume sub-R20 000 category, largely occupied by the budget-conscious and/or entry-level consumer. |
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| Burry Stander (Specialized/Mr Price) made South African cycling history over the weekend when he finished 3rd in the pro-elite race (over 107km) of the UCI Marathon World Championship in St Wendel, Germany. |
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| SCOTT, Europe’s largest bicycle brand, showcased its 2011 model range in Johannesburg, South Africa at the weekend with an impressive line-up of road and mountain bikes that noticeably raised the heart rate of local bicycle retailers. |
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| Almost 3000 people came out to enjoy a great day of mountain biking at the Illovo Eston MTB Marathon just outside of Pietermaritzburg. After last year’s cold mud fest, brilliant spring weather greeted us for the ride around the sugar cane fields of KZN. This year the organizers had gone back to the original 60km course, adding in quite a bit of purpose built single track along the route which offered some spectacular views. |
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| Ben-Melt Swanepoel (Specialized/Mr Price) and Yolandi du Toit (Bizhub) turned the Nissan Diamond Rush Race over 70km in Cullinan, on Saturday, 24 July, into a true ‘love match on mountain bikes’ by respectively winning the pro-elite races for men and women. |
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| Rhodes Extreme welcomes new sponsor Bonitas Medical Fund
Cult race becomes part of popular Bonitas Wild Series |
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| Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a true pioneer, riding on your mountain bike where no two wheels have ever gone before? |
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| Beat Philip Buys (Garmin-adidas) and win Nissan’s Diamond Rush over 70km in Cullinan |
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| If anybody had any doubts about the truth of the saying ‘patience is a virtue’, he was proven wrong by Arno du Toit (Specialized/MR Price) this past weekend (17 July) during the MTN South African Cross-country Championship at the Fountains in Pretoria. Du Toit did this by winning the race for Junior Men.
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| The Nissan Diamond Rush mountain bike race that takes place in and around Cullinan every year, is scheduled for Saturday, 24 July. This race has become a must do on every serious mountain biker’s calendar. |
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| Clear skies and a familiar cold wind greeted almost 2000 mountain bikers at the Medscheme Walkerville Classic mountain bike race just south of Johannesburg on Sunday, but it was an unfamiliar face that crossed the finish line first.
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| Boys and girls across Gauteng are busy with their final preparation for the first round of the Anatomic High School mountain bike series, which gets underway at Rietvlei Farm near Alberton on July 24.
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| This past weekend, Team Ghost BBT competed at the MTN XCO competition for the SA Championship titles in various categories. A day that started early as normal for the unsung heroes of many MTB teams had the mechanics, team owners, parents and loved ones of the athletes at Groenkloof Nature Reserve at the crack of dawn. |
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| Burry Stander (Specialized/Mr Price) showed again that he is in a class of his own when he made riding away from his rivals look ‘oh so easy’ during the MTN South African Cross-country championship at the Fountains in Pretoria on Saturday, 17 July. |
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| The current Under-23 XCO World Champion, Burry Stander (Mr Price Specialized), is gunning for yet another South African title at the MTN XCO National Championships in Pretoria on Saturday. |
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| At a glance you don’t notice much gradient change in the farmlands around the small town of Walkerville, south of Johannesburg. You also don’t notice the variety of terrain and natural vegetation that’s lies beneath the dry, brown winter blanket. |
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| The South African pair Max Knox and Brandon Stewart (Team DCM) won the final stage of the BC Bike Race at Whistler Mountain, Canada at the weekend, giving them a second stage win in the international event and securing second place overall in the final General Classification. |
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| South Africans Max Knox and Brandon Stewart of Team DCM won Stage 4 of the BC Bike Race on Thursday. The victory moved them from third up to second place in the General Classification with two stages remaining. |
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| Silverback, the South African-born cycling brand, has big plans for international expansion over the next five years and lists among its growth areas urban mobility (commuter/city bikes) and mountain biking. |
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| The South African DCM 1 team of Max Knox and Brandon Stewart finished fourth on Stage 3 of the BC Bike Race in Canada, slipping from second to third place in the overall standings in the process. |
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| Burry Stander, the 2009 Under-23 XCO World Champion that races for Team Specialized, writes regular updates that he sends to sponsors, media and friends. He doesn’t bother much with punctuation or spell-checks, so we just tidy it up and make it more readable… |
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| The Team DCM 1 pair of Brandon Stewart and Max Knox did well to finish second on Stage 2 of the BC Bike Race in Canada on Monday, after a serious crash just 5km into the stage left Knox not only with an injured body, but also a damaged bike. |
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| Japanese component giant, Shimano, has launched its new XTR, Shimano’s flagship mountain bike component range with options to suit both cross-country racers and trail riders. This makes it a lot more versatile than it’s predecessor; and incorporates the new mountain bike benchmark, 10-speed shifting, in line with the Deore XT and SLX level 10-speed ranges launched earlier in 2010. |
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| South Africans Brandon Stewart and Max Knox (DCM 1) moved into second place overall at the BC Bike Race international mountain bike stage race in Canada on Sunday. |
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| South African pro downhill racer, Andrew Neethling, and his TREK World Racing team travel the world to compete in the most important and interesting races. |
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| Professional South African mountain bike racers, Brandon Stewart and Max Knox (DCM 1), finished third on the opening prologue time trial stage of the BC Bike Race, in Vancouver, Canada on Saturday. |
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| South Africa’s Greg Minnaar extended his lead in the latest UCI Downhill Mountain Biking world rankings after winning Round 3 of the UCI 2010 World Cup, presented by Shimano in Leogang, Austria at the weekend. |
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| The Nissan Fast and the Furious MTB race was ridden at a hot tempo in the fridge of Walkerville on Saturday morning! It was event #2 of the Nissan MTB Series, and Team Medscheme's Woolcock enjoyed himself! |
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| South African downhill star Greg Minnaar (Santa Cruz Syndicate) showed his versatility and skill when he won Round 3 of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, presented by Shimano, in wet, muddy conditions in Leogang, Austria on Sunday. |
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| South Africa’s Greg Minnaar (Santa Cruz Syndicate), the current leader in the UCI Downhill world rankings will be looking for more success at the Round 3 of the 2010 UCI Downhill World Cup in Leogang, Austria on Sunday. |
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| South African mountain bikers have welcomed the return of a round of the 2011 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup to Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, confirmed on Friday after a meeting by the UCI Management Committee in Birmingham, England. |
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| In a somewhat dramatic move, The Trek Bicycle Corporation has, repositioned the Gary Fisher brand by terminating it as a stand-alone bike brand and converting it to a model range within the Trek stable. The Gary Fisher Collection will now be distributed exclusively through Trek retailers. |
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| Amazing…fantastic….my best ride ever…… These are some of the words used by mountain bikers to describe their racing experience during the Nissan Hazeldean event in Pretoria on Saturday, 5 June. |
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| Nashua Mobile will be hosting the first ever ladies-only mountain bike race in Gauteng on Saturday, July 3. |
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| By winning the Magaliesburg Monster mountain bike race during the past weekend (29 May), Karien van Jaarsveld (Nashua) proved that winning can be addictive. The previous weekend she won the Bela Bela road race. These two consecutive victories put Van Jaarsveld on the verge of a cycling hat trick, which is remarkable considering that she only started to cycle seriously this year and had not won a single race until two weeks ago. |
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| The annual ProNutro Magalies Monster Mountain Bike Classic taking place on Saturday, 29 May 2010 in Buffelspoort is going to be bigger and better than ever. This amazing event started with only 240 competitors in 2003 and has grown to become one of the highlights on the annual MTB calendar sporting 1250 entrants in 2009. |
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| DURBAN – For sportsmen a year can be a long time, but for an event organiser 12 months goes by very quickly – just ask the World Cup Organising Committee and the KZN-based Race Organisers Admin Group. |
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| On Saturday, 15 May, Kevin Evans (MTN-Energade), the South African marathon champion, will make his comeback to cross-country racing in George after an absence of three years. |
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| Mountain bikers of all ages flocked to the Tarentaalkraal Campsite, just
outside Greyton this past weekend (Friday 30 April till Sunday 02 May) to
celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Dirtopia Mountain Bike Festival. |
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| The countdown is on: on Sunday, 21 March 2010, the Absa Cape Epic presented by adidas, now in its seventh year, will kick off at Diemersfountain wine estate outside Wellington and will finish 8 days and 722km later at the Lourensford Wine Estate in Somerset West. |
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| The Absa Cape Epic, now in its seventh year, has fast become one of the leading institutions on the global mountain biking calendar. As the largest team mountain bike stage race in the world and the only team stage race to be added to the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) calendar, the race annually hosts the world's most accomplished and legendary mountain bike riders. This year, the ladies division is set to be as exciting as the men’s. |
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| The action-packed Dirtopia Mountain Bike Festival will return to Tarentaalkraal Campsite (Greyton) from 30 April 2010 to 02 May 2010 in celebration of its 10th anniversary. |
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| Two of the most popular faces at events around the country, KwaZulu-Natal’s Brandon Stewart and Mpumalanga’s Max Knox, are set to mount a strong challenge at this year’s ABSA Cape Epic. A regular face at the race since its inception, Stewart’s fondest memory is winning stage 5 in Greyton in 2006. “The feeling of crossing the finish line is inexplicable - it gets better with each one.” Knox considers his most treasured moments to be his two podium positions in 2008 and 2009 for stage seven of the race. |
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| (Stellenbosch, 7 March 2010) Approximately 4,500 riders battled it out in this weekend's Cape Argus Pick n Pay Mountain Bike Challenge. The 2010 MTB Challenge will certainly be remembered for its unbearably hot conditions, with temperatures reaching up to 42'C on today's 35km and 55km routes. |
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| Kevin Evans (MTN-Energade) and his Cape Epic-teammate, Alban Lakata (Austria), won the first two stages of the Sani2C mountain-bike stage race in KwaZulu-Natal. |
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| One of the South African favourites to take top honours at this year’s Absa Cape Epic, Kevin Evans (31), will be partnering with Austrian Marathon Champion Alban Lakata (30) for the first time as Team MTN/Quebeka. Evans has participated in all 6 previous editions of the Absa Cape Epic and Lakata in three, providing them with excellent experience to face the fast pace promised during this year’s event. |
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| Riders Reach Fourth Country of Ten on Quest to Cycle Africa Top to Bottom
March 2 – (Moyale, Kenya) A group of more than 60 determined individuals are about to face one of their greatest challenges yet on their quest to travel from Cairo to Cape Town on the seat of a bicycle - the infamous lava rock desert stretch in northern Kenya. Since their journey began in January, the group has pedaled their way past Egypt’s ancient monuments, battled the heat of Sudan’s desert landscapes and pushed legs to their limits over the breathtaking mountainous terrain of Ethiopia. Now, with three countries behind them and Kenya in their sights, the Tour d’Afrique cyclists are about to trade their skinny tires in for the fattest, toughest wheels they can find. |
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| The sixth annual SUBARU Sani2c will once again be testing top local and
international off road cyclists later this week. The event will see 1500
teams of two cyclists working their way from the Underberg school to
Scottburgh's main beach, a total distance of 271km, over the course of three
days. |
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| Kevin Evans (MTN-Energade) won the MTN South African Ultra-marathon at the Sabie Classic in impressive style on the weekend. After dropping Burry Stander (Specialized/MR Price) on the second big climb, he time-trialed the last approximately 30 kilometers on his own to win the 115km race in 4 hours 32 minutes and 33 seconds. He has now won the SA Ultra- marathon title four times. |
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| The Fluckiger brothers' team of Lukas (26) and Mathias (21) from Switzerland
will again participate in this year's Absa Cape Epic presented by adidas,
which takes place from 21 to 28 March 2010. The brothers, who have both
participated with great success in many World Cup and World Championships,
won the final stage of last year's Absa Cape Epic and also took second place
in stage three, finishing in eighth position overall. |
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| Joel Stransky, renowned for his winning drop kick in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, has signed himself up for a different kind of challenge this year. He will participate in the seventh Absa Cape Epic - a gruelling 722km mountain bike race, created to push even an established sportsman like himself to his athletic limit. |
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| TWO TIMES OLYMPIC WINNER BART BRENTJENS SAYS ABSA CAPE EPIC IS THE BEST RACE
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| Top South African multi-sport athlete Dan Hugo will return to Grabouw on
Saturday, 20 February 2010 with his eye on his second championship title in
the DUESOUTH XTERRA finals presented by REHIDRAT(r). The 2008 national
champion will hit the spectacular Grabouw course in supreme form fresh off
his convincing victory at XTERRA Buffelspoort Dam in January. |
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| South Africa’s top mountain bikers and adrenaline junkies will once again be seen testing their endurance levels during the awe-inspiring AMArider 100Miler Ultra marathon. |
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| The action-packed Dirtopia Mountain Bike Festival turns 10 in April! In
celebration, mountain bike enthusiasts, leisure cyclists and spectators of
all ages can look forward to a jam-packed weekend of fun and action running
from Friday, 30 April 2010 till Sunday, 02 May 2010. |
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| Nothing was going to stop the pre race favourites for the first MTN Cross
Country event of the year. On Saturday, just outside of Alberton, Burry
Stander (Specialized/MR Price) and Yolandé Speedy (MTN-Energade) still
dominated the MTN National Cross-Country Series, just as the year before. |
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| For Yolandé Speedy (MTN-Energade) mountain biking is not just about winning races or determining how many male riders she can beat during major events. It is also about sharing her expertise. |
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| ‘Take it easy’ is the one phrase that Greg Minnaar (Santa Cruz Syndicate) finds impossible to put into practice. |
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| To try to predict who will be the winner of Saturday’s MTN Barberton Ultra-marathon, is not an easy task. The saying about a certain Fat Lady who first has to sing before anything can be taken for granted comes to mind. |
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| The one thing that is certain when MTN gets involved with a mountain bike event is that the race will go from strength to strength with more riders participating each year. |
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| Kevin Evans and Yolande Speedy made the MTN-sponsored Attakwas Extreme Ultra Marathon an all-yellow affair by dominating the men’s and women’s competitions respectively. Both ride for the powerful MTN-Energade squad.
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| Mountain bikers who are planning to compete in this year’s MTN National Series would have invested lots of training over December and certainly subscribed to the school of more (and longer) is better. |
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| Tour d’Afrique, the world’s longest and most spectacular bicycle event has attracted a record number of entrants for 2010. With over 90 riders from all over the world preparing to test their limits in this annual, four-month, 12000-km race and expedition down the length of Africa, six South Africans, including Michelle Sephton, Andre van Eerden and Jethro De Decker from the Western Cape are registered and ready to roll. |
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| The Absa Cape Epic, now in its 7th year and promising to be even more exciting than previous years, will take place from 21 to 28 March (2010). Teams of two will cover 722km of some of the Western Cape’s most beautiful landscapes, including Diemersfontein, Ceres, Worcester and Oak Valley. |
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| That was Philip Buys (Garmin adidas)'s words before Saturday's last event of the Nissan-series at the Van Gaalen Cheesefarm near Hartebeespoortdam. |
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| Top South African mountain bikers Erik Kleinhans and Oliver Munnik walked
away with the championship title in the overall men's category of the
inaugural Wines2Whales mountain bike race on Sunday, 15 November 2009. They
completed the three-day stage race in an awe-inspiring combined time of
10hours41minutes35seconds. |
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| Well, Brandon Stewart (DCM) is beginning to feel what it is like to be a celebrity. He is currently receiving one invitation after another from race organizers to attend their races. |
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| The Hungarian proved that when she won the women’s marathon race (75km) of MTN’s 50 Miler-event in Hilton in KwaZulu-Natal. |
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| It took Philip Buys (Garmin adidas) longer than he perhaps would have liked, but at long last he succeeded in doing what he had been threatening to do for the past four weeks. He outrode Kevin Evans (MTN-Energade) when it really mattered. |
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| The dramatic new route of the seventh edition of the Absa Cape Epic presented by adidas, which takes place from 21 to 28 March next year (2010), will be as challenging as previous years, with both local and international mountain biking enthusiasts taking on the demanding eight day mountain bike race of 722km. |
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| What a day! What a race! The inaugural Cape Pioneer Trek mountain bike stage race ended back in Oudtshoorn on Saturday with spectacular displays of style and class by a rider, widely considered the quintessential world exponent of the art, Christoph Sauser, and his effervescent Irish manager Bobby Behan. |
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| “We attacked and we attacked, and we attacked ourselves ‘stukkend’,” that's Donovan Jackson's take on Friday’s penultimate stage of the Cape Pioneer Trek mountain bike stage race in the Southern Cape, with the surviving riders (and that's still most of them) taking on the long, 113km, journey from Uniondale to George. |
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| Kamanassie! If the name conjured up visions of heaven and hell in anticipation of Thursday’s 103 km, fourth stage of the Cape Pioneer Trek, then, at the end of the day, it was indelibly imprinted on the traumatised psyches of all who rode into this immense and overpowering wilderness area between De Rust and Uniondale. |
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| The long awaited shake-up in the Klein Karoo International Cape Pioneer Trek mountain bike race came in Stage 3 on Wednesday as the riders diced and jostled between the Groot and Klein Karoo. |
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| But for the crushing 40 deg plus heat on the seemingly endless Swartberg Pass there were only a few surprises (or changes in the results) on Day 2 of the inaugural Cape Pioneer Trek mountain bike stage race on Tuesday. |
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| Between the sharply etched mountain ranges of the Swartberge and the Outeniquas, the first Cape Pioneer Trek mountain bike stage race started on Monday in perfect conditions with 89 teams of two riders and nine individuals taking on the full variety of route conditions that the event offered – and, clearly, loving it.
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| What would a race in Natal be without some cold misty rain…which inevitably leads to mud, mud and some more mud! |
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| MTN's Kevin Evans, who is South Africa's leading marathon mountain biker racer (and the recent winner of the National Mountain Bike Series for a fifth time!) had luck and good form on his side to finally win the Crater Cruise! |
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| Momentum recently handed over more than 90 bicycles which will be used by community-care outreach volunteers and home-based caregivers. An additional 20 bicycles were donated to the Pretoria SAPS for regular, mobile and visible police patrols.
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| After five long months, and eight races on three continents, the cross-country series of the 2009 Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano finally concluded in Schladming, Austria on Saturday.
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| The Four-Cross series at the 2009 Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano concluded on Saturday night in Schladming, Austria and, fittingly, the World Cup champions confirmed their titles with victories in the final round. Anneke Beerten (Suspension Centre) and Jared Graves (Yeti Fox Shox) were convincing winners amid a night of spills and upsets. |
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| Last year, the Sunday Tribune Jeep Hill2Hill was one of the hardest mountain bike races we did, not only because of the tough 105km route between Hilton and Hillcrest, but also because of the cold, wet and muddy weather conditions we experienced on race day (with even some snow thrown in for good measure!) |
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| The 2009 Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano concluded this weekend in Schladming, Austria, where the best gravity riders in the world had one final chance this season to claim victory. |
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| Max Knox and Mari Rabie obliterated the field on day three of the Nelson’s Creek Mountain Bike Challenge, which took place from 11-13 September 2009 at the Nelson Wine Estate in Paarl. |
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| One week after the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Canberra, Australia, the Nissan UCI World Cup presented by Shimano restarted with round seven of the cross-country series in Champéry, Switzerland. |
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| The Lynford Clover Classic must be one of the highlights of the local mountain biking race calendar. The small farming town of Ixopo pulls out all the stops, under the experienced leadership of the one and only Farmer Glen of Subaru Sani2C repute; and puts on a sporting spectacle that makes people return year after year. |
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| The International Cycling Union (UCI) and Shimano Inc. today signed an agreement to extend their partnership contract until the end of 2012. |
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| One of the ‘wildest’ races on the KZN calendar must be the Weenen Classic, sponsored by Husqvarna. The Weenen Game Reserve and the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Honorary Officers played host to the MTB classic ‘with a difference’ for the ninth consecutive year. |
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| Former two-time South African road race champion, Jock Green, showed that at the age of 35 he’s still knows the way to the top of a race podium when he won the popular Century Property Spring Classic mountain bike race just north of Johannesburg on Sunday. |
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| Switzerland’s Nino Schurter won his first world championship gold medal back in 2004, when he took the junior cross-country title at Les Gets, France. Four years later, in Val di Sole, he won a second rainbow jersey before leaving the under-23 category. |
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| After four silver medals, Great Britain’s Steve Peat finally secured gold and the world title when he won the hotly contested men’s downhill at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Canberra, Australia on Sunday. |
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| The International Cycling Union (UCI) and Shimano Inc. have signed an agreement to extend their partnership contract until the end of 2012. |
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| Burry Stander became the first South African XC World Champion when he put in a dominant display to capture the gold medal in the Under-23 men’s race at the 2009 UCI World Championships in Canberra, Australia on Friday. |
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| The young European athletes dominated the two Women’s cross-country events on the second day of the 2009 Canberra UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships, winning five of the six medals on offer. |
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| South Africans, Burry Stander and Greg Minnaar, will be hunting for gold at the 2009 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Canberra, Australia starting on Tuesday. |
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| The Toyota Supercycling team of Shan Wilson and Andrew McLean bagged another mountain bike stage-race win when they won all three stages and took the overall victory at the Nando’s Magalies Adventure at the weekend. |
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| After his victory at the renowned Alpe d'Huez Megavalanche race a few weeks ago on the brand new 2010 Commencal Carbon Meta 5, Remy Absalon, brother of XC legend, Julien Absalon, has been winning all the important gravity races this season. |
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| My weekend started off great when I travelled to the Lowveld on Friday for the Sudwala Challenge. Leaving the Highveld cold behind I was looking forward to some awesome (hot!) mountain biking at Mankele Bike Park. For those of you that don’t know, a few VERY passionate locals have turned this piece of land just outside Nelspruit into mountain biking heaven! |
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| Giba Gorge Mountain Bike Park is known for its tough hilly terrain, flowing singletrack and amazing coffee, all of which weren’t missing over the weekend for the Bicycling Dirt Festival hosted by Giba Gorge. |
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| The Bell Ladies Mountain Bike Team has made an impact on the XC racing scene this year, with overwhelming support and exposure received in the first half of the year. |
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| Brian Lopes has been on a winning streak lately. He won the Air DH for the fourth consecutive time last week – a wild dash down the legendary A-Line at Whistler. |
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| Lance Armstrong’s famous bestseller proudly exclaims: “It’s not about the bike” – He obviously didn’t intend on riding the Dirty Harry MTB Challenge! The race was staged on a tortuous race route up, down and around the Platberg situated north of Harrismith. The dry, rocky terrain was perfect for a full suspension bike and the constant jarring and bumping would certainly take its toll on the competitors before the end of the day… |
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| The Claas Tour de Kranz, is one of those races you find yourself going back year after year. Some put it down to the superb views over the valley of a 1000 hills, some the brilliant single track through the plantations but everyone agrees the warm German hospitality received is what really keeps everyone coming back year upon year. |
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| There are less than 30 spots available for the inaugural Isuzu 3 Towers stage race, which takes place at Mankele Mountain Biking in Mpumalanga from 24-26 September. |
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| The 2009 Edition of the Illovo Eston MTB Challenge was supposed to be easier with the race distance being shortened from 75km to ‘only’ 60km… Yeah right! Mother Nature had other ideas and sent a cold front scurrying across South Africa reaching Eston (Pietermaritzburg) a day before the race and departing the day after – go figure! |
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| The Silver Star Casino MTB Challenge, presented by Itec North on 12 September, is a classic example of how a social ride of a few friends has been turned into one of the most exciting events on the Gauteng race calendar.
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| Race report by Mike Smith of Team Subaru
Well, it has been a whole year since the inception of Team Subaru and what a great way to celebrate the anniversary with an epic battle on the Wild Coast beaches of the Transkei. The 10th anniversary of the Imana Wild Ride took place at the end of July, marking a momentous occasion, as it was the first mountain bike stage race to take place on South African soil. |
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| Race organisers are nowadays really going out of their way to prove to Gauteng’s mountain bikers that there is no need to drive for hours on end just to enjoy a great mountain bike race. |
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| Just when you thought Ibis couldn’t do any better than the beautiful, highly praised Mojo SL, the American company releases it’s newest 160mm-travel (6.4-inches) beast, temporarily named Mojo HD. |
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| Francois Theron (Garmin adidas) survived a somewhat confusing race to successfully defend his title at the Medscheme Walkerville Classic 60km race south of Johannesburg on Sunday. His teammate, Philip Buys, was second and Ben-Melt Swanepoel (Specialized) finished third. |
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| Over the past months, Amarider Gauteng has developed as a group of passionate volunteers, actively pursuing an organised approach to trail advocacy, primarily focused on the Braamfontein Spruit and surrounds. |
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| How do you choose between UCI ranking points and defending a title when both races happen on the same weekend? This is the dilemma Francois Theron (Garmin-Adidas) found himself in this week. |
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| Bryce Munro (DCM Chrome) continued to show his star quality on Sunday when he sped to a decisive overall victory in the Elite and Under-23 men’s category at the Toyota Supercycling event held at the Toyota MTN Cycle Park in Bryanston, Sandton on Sunday. |
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| Bryce Munro (DCM Chrome) continued to show his star quality on Sunday when he sped to a decisive overall victory in the Elite and Under-23 men’s category at the Toyota Supercycling event held at the Toyota MTN Cycle Park in Bryanston, Sandton on Sunday. |
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| Name the race - any road race in South Africa - and there is an excellent chance that Malcolm Lange (Medscheme) would have won it at least once. |
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| The new Toyota MTN Cycle Park in Bryanston, north of Joburg, will host its first ever mountain bike race on Sunday 28 June at the Toyota Supercycling Mountain Bike Race Day and in addition to some of the country’s top riders, there’s a huge field expected in the kiddies categories. |
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| The lack of a replacement title sponsor of the Mountain Bike World Cup after 2009 has forced the International Cycling Union (UCI) to downsize the 2010 edition of the world’s most prestigious mountain bike racing series and South Africa, Australia and Canada will lose out. |
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| Figures released this week by the International Cycling Union (UCI) confirm that the international broadcast time of the Pietermaritzburg round of the Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, presented by Shimano, sponsored by DCM Chrome was a total of 939 hours, 40 minutes and 31 seconds. |
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| South African marathon champion, Kevin Evans, got his National Series title defence back on track when he won Round 3 of the 2009 MTN National Mountain Bike Series, the Induna Ultra-marathon, in Hazyview at the weekend. |
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| After winning the MTN Barberton and Subaru Sabie Classic Ultra-marathon mountain bike races earlier this year, DCM Chrome’s Max Knox starts as the favourite to continue his domination of this new longer distance category at the MTN Induna 125Km race in Hazyview in South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province on Saturday. |
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| The International Cycling Union (UCI) has given high praise in its final report on the recent Mountain Bike World Cup, presented by Shimano, sponsored by DCM Chrome, held last month in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. |
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| A full day of fast-paced mountain bike racing for all ages will be held at the Toyota MTN Bike Park in Bryanston on Sunday 28 June, bringing top-class racing action out from the bush and into the suburbs. |
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| The International Cycling Union (UCI) has given high praise in its final report on the recent Mountain Bike World Cup, presented by Shimano, sponsored by DCM Chrome, held last month in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. |
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| Johann Potgieter (Red Bull Von Zipper) maintained his impressive run of consistency when he won the final leg of the MTN National Mountain Bike Downhill Cup at Klapperkop, Pretoria on Sunday.
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| Namibian Marc Bassingthwaighte (Garmin adidas) showed he’s as strong tactically as he is technically when he launched a well-timed attack that secured him victory at Round 5 of the MTN National Mountain Bike Cross-country Series at Fountains Reserve in Pretoria on Saturday. |
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| After four rounds of fast-paced racing around the country, titles will be decided on Saturday at the fifth and final round of the 2009 MTN National Mountain Bike Cross-country Cup, which takes place at Fountains Reserve in Pretoria. |
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| The global economic slump has delivered a right jab to the SA bicycle industry’s solar plexus leaving some players gasping for air and grasping for ways to continue selling bikes to a cash-strapped target market. |
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| Marc Bassingthwaighte (Garmin adidas) made a welcome return to the top of a major-race podium when he won Round 2 of the MTN National Marathon Mountain Bike Series at Chandelier, Oudtshoorn on Sunday. |
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| The MTN National Marathon Mountain Bike Series got off to an early start with the first round in Barberton at the end of January. Now, after a three-month break, the prestigious seven-event series resumes with Round 2 at the Chandelier Marathon in Oudtshoorn on Saturday. |
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| More than 16000 tickets were sold to spectators attending the Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, presented by Shimano, sponsored by DCM Chrome in Pietermaritzburg over the Easter Weekend. |
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| Great Britain’s Tracy Moseley celebrated her 30th birthday with podium champagne when she won the women’s downhill event at the first round of the Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, presented by Shimano, sponsored by DCM Chrome in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on Sunday. |
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| South Africa’s Greg Minnaar responded well to the pressure of racing in his hometown when he won the men’s downhill event at the first round of the Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, presented by Shimano, sponsored by DCM Chrome in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on Sunday. |
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| Mick Hannah made a winning return to top flight racing when he stunned the world’s best riders to post the fastest time in downhill qualifying at the first round of the Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, presented by Shimano, sponsored by DCM Chrome in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on Friday. |
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| The three medal winners from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games women’s mountain bike event will line-up for a rematch on Saturday; only this time it’s on African soil at the first round of the 2009 Nissan UCI MTB World Cup, presented by Shimano, sponsored by DCM Chrome in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. |
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| Double Olympic gold medallist and four-time world champion, Julien Absalon of France, will have to contend with one of the strongest fields ever assembled when he tackles the season-opening men’s cross-country race at the Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, presented by Shimano, sponsored by DCM Chrome in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on Saturday. |
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| Ian van der Walt is the Chief Executive Officer of DCM Chrome, one of the world’s leading producers of chrome and manganese, which has recently become one of the biggest sponsors of mountain biking in South Africa. |
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