They say it’s a man’s world. And when looking around a mountain bike race village it’s difficult to argue. In the biggest races the average man to woman ratio is 10 to 1. Equal prize money has evened the playing field, but arguably only for the very top riders. For the amateur women – who [...]
Recognisable by their neon yellow kits, with green and black accents, the Insect Science MTB team has forged a reputation as one of South Africa’s premier mountain bike squads. For the 2023 Absa Cape Epic, the team will be represented by Arno du Toit and Keagan Bontekoning, as well as by Herman Fourie and Alan [...]
Double defending champion Kim le Court, of Mauritius, completed a hattrick of Cape Town Cycle Tour wins on Sunday, 12 March. The Efficient Infiniti Insure rider had to work harder for her fourth title than any of the others, though, after Candice Lill broke up a select group who had entered the finale together with [...]
Every rider who has attempted the Momentum Medical Scheme Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen, knows exactly how tough it is. It manages to roll all of cycling’s cliches into one. “It never gets easier, you just get faster” rings momentarily true, except nobody gets much faster. “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn [...]
Since the move to a separate elite women’s race, in 2018, only two women have won the Cape Town Cycle Tour. Both will be lining up once more in 2023. They are five-time champion, Cherise Willeit, and the three-time victor Kimberley Le Court De Billot. Both the South African and the Mauritian are likely to [...]
Dryland Event Management are proud to announce that Glacier by Sanlam, will extend their title sponsorship of the Traverse mountain biking events through to 2026. Glacier by Sanlam, a leading investment platform in South Africa, has been a long-term partner of the Oudtshoorn-based event organisers and the title sponsors of the Glacier Storms River Traverse [...]
The Half- and Quarter Marathon events in the 2023 SA XCM Champs were cancelled on Sunday morning in the interests of rider safety. Heavy rainfall overnight with more rain predicted to fall during the day on Sunday, along with dense fog led the medical team to determine that it was unsafe to continue. The Expo [...]
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 [...]
The 2023 South African Marathon Championships is set to headline the Bike Fest Paarl, at Rhebokskloof, this weekend. Saturday’s main event, the 80 kilometre showdown to determine who wears the national champion’s jerseys at stage races and marathon evens for the next 12 months, underpins a weekend of mountain bike racing on the Paarl Mountain. [...]
The 2023 M&G Investments PE PLETT wrapped up in Nature’s Valley, near Plettenberg Bay, on Saturday, 25 February. After four days of fantastic mountain biking and flat out racing the victors were the Imbuko {type}DEV teams. Franko van Zyl and Rudi Koen won all four stages in the men’s race. While Danielle Strydom and Karla [...]
