Specialized Bicycle’s Soil Searching programme is a movement to recognise and support the trail builders who help shape our sport and ensure our stoke. Since 2018, it has provided financial, organisational and outreach support for trail systems around the world. In 2021 two songo.info graduates were funded by Soil Searching as they embarked on internship [...]
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 [...]
On Wednesday the 11th of March the Kayamandi Sports Fields and songo.info BMX track hosted the 2020 songo.info Champions’ Race. Germany’s Nadine Rieder and South African, cross-country champion, Alan Hatherly raced to commanding victories. They and their fellow competitors feats serve to inspire not only the children in the songo.info programme, but also the hundreds [...]
On Wednesday the 13th of March the Kaymandi Sports Fields and songo.info BMX track hosted the 2019 songo.info Champions Race. The Stellenbosch based sporting and education charity attracted eight former and reigning World Champions, three Olympic Gold Medallists and the reigning European Champion. Accounting for three of those eleven titles between them Sam Gaze and [...]
The traditional final race before the Absa Cape Epic, the songo.info Champions Race is set to take place in Kayamandi on Wednesday the 13th of March. This year’s event will once again boast an all-star international field and entry is free to spectators wishing to watch the action unfold live. The racing gets underway with [...]
The Investec-songo-Specialized teams of Annika Langvad and Kate Courtney; and Jaroslav Kulhavý and Howard Grotts rode to Absa Cape Epic glory on Sunday the 25th of March as they crossed the finish line at Val de Vie Estate. In doing so the team became the first to win the UCI men’s and women’s categories in [...]
Specialized Bicycles have been supporting songo.info since the charity’s inception ten years ago. Since 2012 Specialized have produced two exceptionally distinctive bikes for the riders representing songo.info at the Absa Cape Epic. Upon the completion of the race the bikes are donated to the charity and auctioned off to raise funds for the education and [...]
Victories by Jaroslav Kulhavý and Howard Grotts, in the UCI men’s category, and in the UCI women’s category, for Annika Langvad and Kate Courtney, further eased the pressure on the Investec-songo-Specialized squads ahead of the final stage of the 2018 Absa Cape Epic. On the penultimate stage of the race on the 24th of March, [...]
Both the elite men’s and women’s Investec-songo-Specialized teams of Annika Langvad and Kate Courtney, and Jaroslav Kulhavý and Howard Grotts secured stage wins on Stage 5 of the Absa Cape Epic. The 39 kilometre long time trial, which took place on the trails around Wellington on the 23rd of March, saw the men win their [...]
Investec-songo-Specialized’s Jaroslav Kulhavý and Howard Grotts punctured in the rocky Slanghoek Valley, but just when it looked like their general classification lead may be evaporating the pair counter punched – adding to their overnight lead by reeling in and overtaking Cannondale Factory Racing. In the women’s race Annika Langvad and Kate Courtney further extended their [...]
