The cycling kit you need to ride during a South African winter

Freezing weekend mornings with later riding starts; the bits of gear you need to road or mountain bike through winter.

26 May

Red bikes are for racing – but green bikes are for doing good

Songo and Specialized have created a graduate trail building programme, yielding real results. And you can support it by biding on some...

24 May

EXCERPT | ‘The end of my first life’ – Grant Lottering tells of the horrific crash that stopped his heart but didn’t defeat him

In 2013, champion cyclist Grant Lottering’s heart stopped after a gruesome accident in the Italian Alps. Doctors said he would never ride...

24 May

Pinarello is back in mountain biking with the Dogma

The world's most exciting riders target Olympic mountain biking gold in Paris on a new Italian mountain bike design.

22 May

You only have until midnight to enter SA's best e-bike MTB event

Singletrack riding in the Zuurberg bordering Addo; it's the stuff of mountain bike dreams, and the GZT-E is exclusively for e-bike...

19 May

Why are gravel bikes winning local MTB races?

Rule changes are allowing South African riders to race gravel bikes competitively at traditional mountain bike events with surprising...

17 May

The Cape Epic champ Matt Beers talks bikes, training, eating and cycling computers

Matt Beers chats about Cape Epic bike choices for bigger riders, training smarter, and why you should never ride through mechanical issues.

15 May

Scott's symbolic custom bike for a ten-time MTB World Champ

Part-time Stellenbosch resident and full-time incredible mountain biker Nino Schurter has a crazy custom race bike for this season.

10 May

Mother's Day and MTB – what to get the most important rider you know

How to start thinking differently about moms and mountain biking. And what to get the mountain biking mom in your life for Mother's Day.

11 May

Cape Pioneer Trek – the Race with Soul has evolved for 2023

From the Garden Route’s best coastal trails into the Karoo, the Cape Pioneer Trek offers a terrific seven-day stage racing experience.

08 May

MTB shorts with a 'safe' pocket to guard your smartphone during a crash

Smartphones are at risk when riding, but it is a risk to ride without your personal device. Solution? Shorts with a smarter pocket design.

05 May

Lego themed shoes and tiny pro pedals are trending as kids' MTB gear

What if your kids could ride Greg Minnaar's mountain bike shoe brand while pedalling pro-specification pedals? Now they can.

03 May

Why the best mountain bikes are built by skilled workers - not machines

Workers' Day is an appropriate date to think about where and how your amazing mountain bike was made. By a worker, not a robot.

01 May

Matt Beers and Tristan Nortje are 2023 KAP sani2c champs

With 2 minutes 31 seconds to play with in Stage 3 of the KAP sani2c, Matt Beers and Tristan Nortje of Toyota-Specialized only had to...

01 May

Freedom Day MTB – these SA cycling brands are world renowned

You can ride proudly South African-made mountain bikes, wheels, components and apparel, counted among the best in the world.

27 Apr

Wahoo's Freeride update helps you climb smarter on unfamiliar routes

A new update for Wahoo's cycling computers will help you 'see' and conquer climbs. Ideal for those dark Karoo mornings.

26 Apr

This cycling app is better than WhatsApp for organising group rides

The only South African rider to ever lead the Tour de France has put his money behind a new app that promises superior group rides.

25 Apr

WATCH | Tom Isted backflips his way into the record books at Darkfest mountain bike festival

Watch as UK rider Tom Isted pulls off the longest backflip ever landed at Darkfest in Stellenbosch.

22 Apr