A dramatic final stage – on Saturday, 5 October – saw Insect Science race their way to victory on the day and overall, at the 2024 Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen. Arno du Toit and Keagan Bontekoning put PYGA Euro Steel’s Jaedon Terlouw and Pieter du Toit under pressure, then drove home [...]
The Queen Stage of the 2024 Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen, saw dramatic racing as Herman Fourie and Julian Jessop went on a long-range raid, before fading on the Swartberg Pass. This allowed Insect Science and PYGA Euro Steel to sprint it out for victory, with Arno du Toit and Keagan Bontekoning [...]
For the second successive stage PYGA Euro Steel and Efficient Infiniti Insure emerged victorious at the Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen. Wednesday, 2 October’s Stage 2 took the riders from George over the Outeniqua Mountains to Louvain on a brutally tough course. The trek into the Langkloof required the conquest of a [...]
Stage 1 of the 2024 Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen, was raced under cloudy skies on Tuesday, 1 October, on the tracks and trails of the Outeniqua Mountain above George. The opening day was a fiercely contested affair in the men’s race with PYGA Euro Steel winning out after seizing an opportunity [...]
The Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen, underwent a rejuvenation for the 2024 race. The fourteenth edition will see the Race With Soul take place over five days, from the 1st to the 5th of October, with stage starts and finishes being hosted by George, Louvain, the summit of the Swartberg Pass, and [...]
Dryland Launch Renewed Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen The Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer Trek, presented by Biogen, celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in 2023. Over the decade and a half, the seven-day stage race took riders through the Klein Karoo and across the Garden Route. It traversed high mountains and fertile plains, [...]
The 2023 Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer Trek, presented by Biogen, took solo racers and teams on a journey through some of the Southern Cape’s most spectacular landscapes. From the plantations and indigenous forests of George, through the orchards and fynbos of the Langkloof and into the usually arid Klein Karoo. A record season of [...]
The final stage of the Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer Trek, presented by Biogen, saw the 2023 general classification titles wrapped up by the teams who had worn the yellow and pink First Ascent leaders’ jerseys since the Prologue. The racing, in the UCI men’s field in particular, was far more interesting than that fact [...]
The Queen Stage of the Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer Trek, presented by Biogen, provided the men and women in the yellow and pink First Ascent leaders’ jerseys with the terrain to race to emphatic stage victories. Stage 5 – on Friday, 8 September – played out in dramatic fashion as the air went out [...]
Stage 4 of the 2023 Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer Trek, presented by Biogen, was the longest of the race, as it took the teams from Louvain to Oudtshoorn; on Thursday, 7 September. Despite the day’s length and significant drama on the trails after 90 kilometres the stage came down to a four-team sprint finish [...]
