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, [...]
May's devastating floods damaged Die Wapad, Die Poort, and Prince Alfred's Pass, but with an adaptation of the iconic route from Uniondale to Knysna, the 2026 Lions Karoo to Coast will still take place on Sunday 27 September. Rather than ascending Die Wapad out of Uniondale, the course will now follow the Die Poort pass [...]
The 2026 Trans Baviaans followed the alternative Langs Baviaans course, along the north-eastern slopes of the Baviaanskloof Mountains, on Saturday 8 August. With the Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve closed due to flood damage, the 2011 route was revisited for just the second time in the race’s 22-edition history. Still measuring 230 kilometres in length, but with [...]
South Africa’s largest cycling retailer, Cycle Lab, will open its first Garden Route branch in the regional capital, George. The new store, located in the Eden Meander Lifestyle Centre, will open on Tuesday, 1 September 2026. It will boast Cycle Lab’s famous broad range of world-class brands, including bicycles, components, apparel, and sports nutrition. Alongside [...]
Mother Nature is full of surprises, but mountain bikers are resilient too. The flooding that ravaged the Baviaanskloof region in May has affected but not prevented the 2026 edition of the Trans Baviaans from taking place. For just the second time in the race’s 22-year history, the route will be diverted to the Langs Baviaans [...]
Good times are certainly synonymous with the Glacier Storms River Traverse. Sunshine… not as much. In the 14-edition history of the event, the sun has rarely shone for three consecutive days. In 2026, the weather gods smiled upon the 250 mountain bikers gathered in the Tsitsikamma, producing three days with 20-degree Celsius highs and hardly [...]
