Matt Beers and Candice Lill proved themselves to be a class apart at the Bike Fest Paarl on Saturday, 4 March. The Toyota Specialized man won his second South African Marathon title, on the 75 kilometre long course; which started and finished at Rhebokskloof Wine Estate outside Paarl. While Lill, of Seattle Coffee Co King [...]
Matt Beers and Sarah Hill won the 2023 Momentum Medical Scheme Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen, in very different ways on Saturday, 21 January. The Toyota Specialized rider beat PYGA Euro Steel’s Alex Miller in a sprint. While Hill broke away from Elrika Harmzen-Pretorius on the climb towards the Queen of the Mountain hotspot and [...]
songo.info, the education and sporting charity founded by Christoph Sauser in 2008, will once again be represented by some of Specialized Factory Racing’s global superstars at the Absa Cape Epic. In 2022 the story goes beyond the elite men’s and women’s races however, as Sauser teams up with his former rival, Karl Platt, to target [...]
Behemoths of the automotive and cycling industries, Toyota and Specialized Bicycles, have teamed up to support two of South Africa’s most talented mountain bikers in 2022 and beyond. Racing as Toyota Specialized, with the support of Ninety One Asset Management and in benefit of songo.info, the team will target marathon, stage races, gravel bike events [...]
The Queen Stage of the 2022 Momentum Medical Scheme Tankwa Trek, presented by Biogen, was won by the all-South African teams of Faces Rola and Toyota Specialized on Saturday, 5 February. Matt Beers and Tristan Nortje recovered from a difficult second stage to outsprint the overall race leaders, Team Cornercard, on Stage 3. While in [...]
The competition is hotting up for the women’s race at KAP sani2c later this week, as Robyn de Groot and Amy McDougall have teamed up at the last minute, and the men’s field has the best of SA men’s mountain biking lining up, on form and ready to race. COMPETITIVE MEN’S RACE The PYGA Euro [...]
Matt Beers and Yolande de Villiers won the 2021 South African XCM Championships in Paarl on Saturday, 1 May. The Type{DEV} NanoTime rider dominated the race, virtually from the gun, to win by 5 minutes and 21 seconds. While the women’s race had more drama as the Cycling South Africa commissaires had to adjudicate the [...]
Having been founded mid-pandemic, Team type{DEV} NanoTime had limited opportunities for racing in 2020. With the support of a long-term sponsor, in the form of software developers type{DEV}, the squad was able to use the time wisely; focusing on preparing for 2021. Nico Bell, Matt Beers, Wessel Botha, Stuart Marais and Zandri Strydom are now [...]
Following the July 31st launch of the NanoTime website, which aims to become a platform for inspiring you to get active and educating you on how to stay active, the mountain bike team was announced today, 14 August 2020. After weeks of speculation as mountain biking fans tried to guess the identities of the team [...]
The 2020 Knysna Bull, made personal by Constantia, concluded on Saturday. Matt Beers, Anne Terpstra, Tristan Nortje and Danielle Strydom all wrapped up their respective category titles with stage victories; though Terpstra’s was shared with her teammate Barbara Benko. Having taking in 4 days of racing, though the heart of the Garden Route from the [...]
