Last week, the Diverge Podcast was at the Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen. We tried to do daily podcasts, but fell off the wagon after Stage 2. So here are the final 3 days all in one long pod. The headline, of course, is that Tristan Nortje and Travis Stedman [...]
The 2025 Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen, came to a sweltering and thrilling conclusion in Oudtshoorn on Saturday, 4 October. Vera Looser and Samantha Sanders completed a clean sweep of victories across the five stages to win the UCI Women’s title by over 40 minutes. The UCI Men’s competition was a closer [...]
Tristan Nortje and Travis Stedman won in yellow, while Vera Looser and Samantha Sanders won in pink at the summit of the Swartberg Pass, in South African mountain biking’s only mountain top finish. Die Top, as the location at 1 583 metres above sea level is known, is an iconic part of the Momentum Medical Scheme [...]
The dual tracks and trails from Louvain, in the Langkloof, to Langenhoven Gymnasium, in Oudtshoorn, were rocky and rough on Stage 3 of the Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen. This helped create the conditions for another thrilling day of racing on Thursday, 2 October 2025. Though the yellow and pink First Ascent [...]
This week, the Diverge Podcast is at the Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen. Tune in for daily reports and interviews from the race. After losing time with a catastrophic rear wheel puncture on Stage 1, the PYGA Euro Steel Team of Jaedon Terlouw and Michael Foster earned a redemption of [...]
Having lost an hour with a puncture on Stage 1 of the Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen, PYGA Euro Steel might be out of the general classification battle, but they earned redemption with a stage win on the second day of the 2025 race. Wednesday, 1 October, also saw Efficient Infiniti Insure [...]
Stage 1 of the 2025 Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen, took riders from Wilderness on the Garden Route coast to Louvain in the Langkloof. The 84 kilometre course included a sapping 2 250 metres of climbing, which tested even the freshest of legs. Tristan Nortje and Travis Stedman proved the strongest climbers on [...]
The Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer, presented by Biogen, is far more than the standard mountain bike stage race. It is the Race with Soul. An event that blends highly competitive UCI and age-category racing with a relaxed race village atmosphere. Even for the elite men and women lining up to fight it out over [...]
The mid-race time trial at the SPAR Swiss Epic allowed Torpado Kenda FSA and Efficient Infiniti SCB SRAM to exert their dominance over the 2025 SPAR Swiss Epic. The men in yellow and the women in orange paced their efforts to perfection to win Stage 3 by 1 minute and 14 seconds, and 3 minutes [...]
Nino Schurter and Filippo Colombo (SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing) timed their attack to perfection late on the 2025 Absa Cape Epic’s ‘Queen Stage’ to surge away from the field and win Stage 5, extending their overall race lead to over a minute at the same. In the Aramex UCI Women’s Category, Annika Langvad and Sofia Gomez [...]
