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28 01, 2025

Titan Racing Found Safari Essence Titan Racing Team around Danielle du Toit and Bianca Haw

By |2025-01-28T17:05:54+02:00January 28th, 2025|News|0 Comments

Titan Racing is proud to announce the Safari Essence Titan Racing cycling team for the 2025 season. From the onset, the decision was made to focus their involvement on woman’s cycling, and to support South African talent and help grow the sport, both locally and internationally. With this in mind, the Safari Essence Titan Racing [...]

12 12, 2024

Gravel Burn Welcomes Assos as Official Cycling Apparel Sponsor

By |2024-12-12T13:49:46+02:00December 12th, 2024|News|Comments Off on Gravel Burn Welcomes Assos as Official Cycling Apparel Sponsor

Assos of Switzerland has signed a multi-year agreement to become the official cycling apparel sponsor of the newly launched Gravel Burn, establishing itself as one of the event’s founding partners. This exciting new gravel bike stage race is set to take place in South Africa in 2025, marking a significant milestone in Assos’ commitment to [...]

21 11, 2024

The Passes Thomas Bain Built: Capturing the Diversity of the Garden Route Giro

By |2024-11-21T11:48:21+02:00November 21st, 2024|News|Comments Off on The Passes Thomas Bain Built: Capturing the Diversity of the Garden Route Giro

Gravel is in vogue. It is growing and evolving, with stage racing already identified as the next frontier. The question which now needs to be answered is how many elements from road and mountain bike stage racing multi-day gravel events will incorporate, and where they will deviate entirely. The Garden Route Giro’s race director, Henco [...]

12 10, 2024

Gravel Burn: 7 Day Gravel Stage Race Launched in the Eastern Cape

By |2024-10-12T09:12:09+02:00October 12th, 2024|News|Comments Off on Gravel Burn: 7 Day Gravel Stage Race Launched in the Eastern Cape

A unique, new gravel stage race - Gravel Burn - is set to take place next October, in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape, South Africa. Held over 7 days and 850km, this full-service event will be open to both professionals and amateurs. The route takes riders through South Africa’s diverse landscapes, starting in the coastal [...]

6 09, 2024

Garden Route Giro – Dryland Introduce 6-Stage Gravel Race

By |2024-09-06T19:27:08+02:00September 6th, 2024|News|Comments Off on Garden Route Giro – Dryland Introduce 6-Stage Gravel Race

Gravel racing has grown and matured in recent years, stand alone events and series have gained popularity, and now the time has come for a truly world-class gravel stage race. The Garden Route Giro promises to be that and more. A six-day stage race through the stunning Southern Cape region, featuring ascents of some of [...]

28 07, 2024

Beers Dominates 2024 B-well Around the Pot

By |2024-07-28T20:11:59+02:00July 28th, 2024|News|Comments Off on Beers Dominates 2024 B-well Around the Pot

Matt Beers proved a class apart at the 2024 B-well Around the Pot, presented by SEESA, 100 Miler on the 27th of July. The gravel race, from the Overberg town of Swellendam, boasted four route options which took in 200-, 100-, 60-, and 25-Mile courses across the rolling hills of the Rûens. Beers was joined [...]

10 07, 2024

2024 B-Well Around the Pot Promises Fierce Gravel Contest

By |2024-07-10T09:34:02+02:00July 10th, 2024|News|Comments Off on 2024 B-Well Around the Pot Promises Fierce Gravel Contest

When the 2024 B-Well Around the Pot, presented by SEESA, takes place on the 26th and 27th of July some of South Africa’s best gravel racers will be on the start line. With the fields split between the 100- and 200-Miler distances the national endurance and ultra-endurance gravel scene will converge on the Overberg town [...]

3 07, 2024

Giant Bicycles Introduce a New, Sleeker and Faster, Revolt Gravel Bike

By |2024-07-03T11:47:27+02:00July 3rd, 2024|Gear Reviews, News|Comments Off on Giant Bicycles Introduce a New, Sleeker and Faster, Revolt Gravel Bike

Giant Bicycles has introduced the newest generation of its Revolt composite-framed gravel bikes, the Revolt Advanced Pro and Revolt Advanced. Both series are built on reengineered framesets that balance race-winning speed and efficiency with Revolt’s characteristic compliance and control. Read more about new bikes on Diverge by clicking here.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDotOfi3OJE The framesets are complemented by [...]

13 03, 2024

3T Gravel Bikes to be Raced and Sold in South Africa

By |2024-03-13T23:01:02+02:00March 13th, 2024|News|Comments Off on 3T Gravel Bikes to be Raced and Sold in South Africa

As gravel riding and racing continues to grow, so the cycling market adjusts to embrace a discipline that’s helping increase the numbers as a whole and firmly establish gravel as a sub-category. Phil Buys Sports has been appointed the South African representative of 3T bicycles, an Italian cycling brand that’s achieved global respect. Here’s what [...]

28 02, 2024

Toyota Specialized Racing into Season 3 High on Confidence

By |2024-02-28T11:44:50+02:00February 28th, 2024|News|Comments Off on Toyota Specialized Racing into Season 3 High on Confidence

Founded in 2022 around the 2021 Absa Cape Epic winner, Matt Beers team Toyota Specialized is heading into their third season high on confidence. The squad has expanded to include, Namibian multi-disciplinary champion, Alex Miller and the youthful talent of Johan van Zyl. Already, by late February, the team has amassed a number of major [...]

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