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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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| 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
IN THE WORLD |
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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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After missing the last two editions of the Momentum 94.7 Mountain Bike Challenge, it will be a distinctly different experience for Burry Stander when he takes part in the event this year, scheduled for next Saturday. |
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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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