African and South African Gravel Champion, Hayley Preen, headlines the elite line-ups for the 2026 King Price Race to the Sea, which is set to take place on Saturday, 5 September. The 100-Mile course will start on the banks of the Theewaterskloof Dam, near Villiersdorp, and take in a new route feature, the infamous Rusty [...]
Anna Weinbeer and Claudia Peretti, of KTM Spada Brenta Brakes - Olympia, wrapped up a perfect Swiss Epic in Davos on Sunday, 23 August 2026, winning their fifth stage to take the overall title in commanding fashion. Fadri Barandun and Andrin Beeli’s path to the general classification victory was significantly nervier, as Stefano Goria and [...]
The penultimate stage of the Swiss Epic saw Stefano Goria and Davide Foccoli, of SCOTT Racing 2, launch a stinging attack on the Wolfgang climb in pursuit of victory on the day and time in the battle for the 2026 title. The men in the yellow CIOVITA jerseys, Engadin La Punt’s Fadri Barandun and Andrin [...]
The 25th edition of the Lions Karoo to Coast will take a slightly different route from Uniondale to Knysna, following the De Poort Pass to Avontuur rather than the Ou Wapad. Entries to the 2026 event, which takes place on Sunday 27 September, close on Monday, 7 September at 17:00. The updated route features [...]
Anna Weinbeer and Claudia Peretti have been in imperious form over the first three days of the 2026 Swiss Epic. On Stage 3, the KTM Spada Brenta Brakes - Olympia team completed a perfect hat trick of victories, adding a further 4 minutes and 25 seconds to their overall advantage. In the Elite Men’s race, [...]
Honeycomb 226ers became the first team to win a stage at an Epic Series stage race on 32-inch wheels when Marc Pritzen and Felix Stehli won Stage 2 of the 2026 Swiss Epic. The South African/Swiss pairing charged through a shortened 24-kilometre time trial course to win the day in 43 minutes and 13 seconds [...]
Engadin La Punt’s Fadri Barandun and Andrin Beeli won the opening stage of the Swiss Epic on Wednesday, 19 August 2026. The Stage 1 victory is the first for both Swiss riders in their home stage race and was made sweeter for Barandun after narrowly missing out in 2024, also on a day that finished [...]
32-inch wheels have been the talk of the mountain bike world for months, and prototypes have made racing appearances at the Absa Cape Epic and in UCI Mountain Bike World Series races, but at the 2026 Swiss Epic they arrived en masse. Or at least in a significant number, with Stoll Bikes claiming that there [...]
The 2026 Swiss Epic is set to take place from the 19th to the 23rd of August in the south-eastern canton of Graubünden. Over the course of five stages, 500 riders in two-person teams will climb 11 000 metres on a 343-kilometre-long route. Newly crowned Swiss Mountain Bike Marathon Champions, Casey South and Anna Weinbeer, [...]
The partnership between iconic South African stage racing adventure trail run, the Dryland Traverse, and the shoe brand many associate with adventures, Merrell, is a natural one. It is no surprise then that Merrell has taken up the mantle of Official Footwear Partner of the Dryland Traverse. The sponsorship agreement begins with the 2026 edition, [...]
