E-Bike racing is tactical! E-Bike racing levels the playing field! E-Bike racing is hard! E-Bike racing is fun! Four key takeaways from the E-Powered Pinotage race highlight how views, E-MTB technology, and the race rules have evolved since the inaugural E-Bike race in the Pinotage event at FNB Wines2Whales in 2021. 5 years on, there [...]
Electronic issues nearly cost the Bergstrom Factory Racing team their FNB Wines2Whales Pinotage title on the final stage from Oak Valley to Benguela Cove. Santina Malacarne came up with an old-fashioned solution to the most modern of cycling problems and towed Lukas Dennda up the climbs, which enabled the Swiss pairing to maintain top spot [...]
At the sharp end of the E-Bike racing, at FNB Wines2Whales, there are some very familiar faces. Joris Ryf is a former World Champion, Benjamin [Benno] Willeit has been at the forefront of the bike industry for two decades, and the Mixed category leaders, Santina Malacarne and Lukas Dennda, are elite E-Bike racers. Heather Collen [...]
Wet, windy, and cold weather made for difficult conditions on the opening day of FNB Wines2Whales’ Pinotage event. While some E-Bikers made short work of the course, many analogue bikers were out in the rain for longer than they had anticipated the stage to take. As was the case in 2023, Benjamin Willeit and Joris [...]
E-Bike racing is a relatively new phenomenon. The inaugural E-MTB World Championships were held during the 2019 Mountain Biking World Championships, in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada. In 2021 FNB Wines2Whales included an E-Bike category for the first time, then in 2022 the Pinotage event hosted an E-Bike race too. In 2023 the reigning E-Bike World Champion Joris [...]
