Electronic issues nearly cost the Bergstrom Factory Racing team their FNB Wines2Whales Pinotage title on the final stage from Oak Valley to Benguela Cove. Santina Malacarne came up with an old-fashioned solution to the most modern of cycling problems and towed Lukas Dennda up the climbs, which enabled the Swiss pairing to maintain top spot [...]
At the sharp end of the E-Bike racing, at FNB Wines2Whales, there are some very familiar faces. Joris Ryf is a former World Champion, Benjamin [Benno] Willeit has been at the forefront of the bike industry for two decades, and the Mixed category leaders, Santina Malacarne and Lukas Dennda, are elite E-Bike racers. Heather Collen [...]
Wet, windy, and cold weather made for difficult conditions on the opening day of FNB Wines2Whales’ Pinotage event. While some E-Bikers made short work of the course, many analogue bikers were out in the rain for longer than they had anticipated the stage to take. As was the case in 2023, Benjamin Willeit and Joris [...]
Candice Lill and Tyler Jacobs put in a performance worthy of a five-star review as they completed a perfect clean sweep of FNB Wines2Whales Chardonnay stage wins. The SeattleCoffeeCo eFORT ALMAR pair had time to stop for a selfie at the FNB Private banking picture frame on their way to victory at Benguela Cove. When [...]
Candice Lill and Tyler Jacobs secured their second stage victory of the 2024 FNB Wines2Whales Chardonnay race with another commanding performance on the Oak Valley Trails. Stage 2 suited the cross-country racers to perfection and they were able to add a further 4:57 onto their general classification advantage over their nearest rivals, Vera Looser and [...]
The opening day of the 2024 FNB Wines2Whales series got underway in perfect conditions on Friday, 1 November. SeattleCoffeeCo eFORT ALMAR’s Candice Lill and Tyler Jacobs picked up where they left off in 2023 winning their fourth stage win in a row, though the most recent comes 12 months after the last. They were joined [...]
In Episode 3 of the rebooted Diverge Podcast Seamus Allardice looks ahead at the 2024 FNB Wines2Whales with the insights of Tiffany Keep, Bianca Haw and Sarah Hill. Meanwhile in the Klein Karoo the Dryland Traverse got underway today, 31 October, and Nicola Freitas provides some on the ground reflections from the Prologue which takes [...]
The 2024 FNB Wines2Whales gets underway on Friday, 1 November, with the elite women’s showdown in the Chardonnay race. South Africa’s international campaigners, Candice Lill and Tyler Jacobs, headline the field as defending champions. Yet they will face fierce competition from the Efficient Infiniti Racing, e-FORT 1, and Sani2C teams, in particular. The punchy and [...]
In Episode 2 of the rebooted Diverge Podcast Seamus Allardice looks back at the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon, as well as the Cape Town Trail Marathon, and the Prince George Monumental 100 Miler. Then casts his gaze ahead at the 2024 FNB Wines2Whales and finds out from Zane Schmahl what the route conditions are like [...]
Story by Christopher Rawbone-Viljoen Late in 2022, Pieter Silberbauer, of Trail’s End, and Christopher Rawbone-Viljoen, of Oak Valley, sought to canvass landowners in Elgin to form a combined trail network that would stretch from Sir Lowry’s Pass to Houw Hoek. That goal is still a work in progress, but as of August 2024 the Elgin [...]
