Pedal Project

9 09, 2025

Diverge Podcast: Stedman Races to the Sea

By |2025-09-09T15:21:51+02:00September 9th, 2025|Podcast|Comments Off on Diverge Podcast: Stedman Races to the Sea

In Episode 14 of Season 2, the Diverge Podcast recaps a thrilling fifth edition of the King Price Race to the Sea, discusses the reasons to ride the Glacier Storms River Traverse in 2026, and looks at the Pedal Project’s 2025 Dream Bike raffle prize. At the Race to the Sea, the men’s [...]

13 03, 2025

Pedal Project Expands the PedalForGood Leaders’ Jersey Initiative for 2025 Absa Cape Epic

By |2025-03-14T13:33:46+02:00March 13th, 2025|Epic Trips|Comments Off on Pedal Project Expands the PedalForGood Leaders’ Jersey Initiative for 2025 Absa Cape Epic

Pedal Project is an official Absa Cape Epic charity and a community-based mental health support programme that utilises mountain biking to empower children from historically disadvantaged communities. Pedal Project is proud to announce the return of the PedalForGood Leaders' Jersey for the 2025 Absa Cape Epic, further reinforcing its mission to celebrate and support the [...]

21 11, 2024

Diverge Podcast: #6 Zane Schmahl – Die Hel Chats in Gamkaskloof

By |2024-11-21T20:13:02+02:00November 21st, 2024|Podcast|Comments Off on Diverge Podcast: #6 Zane Schmahl – Die Hel Chats in Gamkaskloof

In Episode 6 of the rebooted Diverge Podcast Seamus Allardice chats to EcoBound and To Hell and Back’s Zane Schmahl about the oldest mountain bike stage race in the country. Over beers in Gamkaskloof – as Die Hel is actually known – they spoke about the history of the event, the difficulties of staging a [...]

20 11, 2024

Grant Parkes Wins Pedal Project Dream Bike Raffle

By |2024-11-20T13:26:36+02:00November 20th, 2024|News|Comments Off on Grant Parkes Wins Pedal Project Dream Bike Raffle

In November the Pedal Project staged the second Dream Bike Raffle draw at the Hanger Bike Co. and one lucky Somerset West local rode away with a bespoke Outer Cycles Link E-Bike. Grant Parkes was one of 800 individuals who purchased a total of 1 500 tickets, which helped the community-based mental health support programme [...]

2 09, 2024

#RaffleForGood to fund Pedal Project Youth Development Programme’s #TrailTherapy

By |2024-09-02T20:28:49+02:00September 2nd, 2024|News|Comments Off on #RaffleForGood to fund Pedal Project Youth Development Programme’s #TrailTherapy

Pedal Project is using the power of bikes to provide Trail Therapy and allowing you to win a dream ebike while supporting at-risk youth. For the second year the charity, which currently provides weekly mental health counselling and a healthy outdoors outlet for 120 children from schools in Macassar and Stand, will be staging a [...]

27 02, 2024

Meet the PedalForGood Jersey Contenders at the 2024 Absa Cape Epic

By |2024-03-06T16:02:23+02:00February 27th, 2024|Epic Trips|Comments Off on Meet the PedalForGood Jersey Contenders at the 2024 Absa Cape Epic

The Pedal Project is an official Absa Cape Epic charity and a community-based mental health support programme, which utilises mountain biking as a vehicle for empowering children from historically disadvantaged communities. At the 2024 Untamed African Mountain Bike Race the programme will be rewarding a group of UCI Women’s teams as they #PedalForGood. The unofficial [...]

20 02, 2024

Pedal Project Creates Racing Sub-Category Within the UCI Women’s Field

By |2024-02-20T20:31:23+02:00February 20th, 2024|Epic Trips|Comments Off on Pedal Project Creates Racing Sub-Category Within the UCI Women’s Field

The Pedal Project – a community-based mental health support programme which utilises mountain biking as a vehicle for empowering children from historically disadvantaged communities – is an official charity of the Absa Cape Epic. In an attempt to raise awareness of the charity, to promote healthy competition throughout the race, and to highlight the achievements [...]

26 10, 2022

South African Mountain Bikers Come Together to #PedalForGood

By |2022-10-24T10:35:13+02:00October 26th, 2022|News|Comments Off on South African Mountain Bikers Come Together to #PedalForGood

Mountain Bike is mostly an individual sport, where the athlete competes for their personal best time against a cohort of other individuals. But this sport is unique in that despite individualism, a strong bond and camaraderie amongst the participants are positive and helpful. From social riders to elite-level athletes, there is constant support and care [...]

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