South Africa’s Luke Moir and New Zealand’s Samara Sheppard won the 10th edition of the songo.info Champions Race, presented by fibertime™️, on Wednesday, 12 March. Held on the streets and trails through the heart of the Kayamandi community – in Stellenbosch, where songo.info’s clubhouse is located – the race is part final shakeout before the [...]
On the 12th of March 2025, on the Wednesday between the Cape Town Cycle Tour and the Absa Cape Epic, the streets and fields of Kayamandi will host the 10th edition of the songo.info Champions Race, presented by fibertime™️. Renowned as a spectacular spectator friendly urban mountain bike event it has seen riders of the [...]
After a three-year hiatus the 2024 songo.info Champions Race, presented by fibertime™️, proved once again why it was a mainstay of the packed March cycling calendar, on Wednesday evening. Riders and fans alike were treated to a late afternoon of fantastic racing and an electrifying atmosphere; as the streets and footpaths of Kayamandi played host [...]
The greatest mountain biking spectator event, the songo.info Champions Race is back from a three-year hiatus, with fibertime™ as the new presenting sponsor. As ever the event will be staged in Kayamandi on the Wednesday before the Absa Cape Epic and some of the world's best MTB racers will turn out to hone their skills [...]
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 [...]
