Wednesday 24 February 2010

March cycle trips and tours Cape Town

Cape Town cycling trips in March:

26 -27 February: 2 day singletrack trip -Belville/Wellington/Stellenbosch/Cape Town
2 March: Day trip of scenic road riding through Stellenbosch region
8-11 March: 4 day road cycling tour in Stellenbosch region-great prep for Cape Argus Cycle Tour!
21-30 March: 10 Day road cycle tour in Stellenbosch region

Contact us today if you want to cycle in amazing weather with incredible rides!

Monday 22 February 2010

Cape Town cycling tour -over 50's only!

Our friends over at Soul touring have a great tour planned for the active over 50's. Check it out!

South Africa road champs 2010 -results

Jennie Stenerhag competed brilliantly with the pro teams in Klerksdorp over the weekend and ended up 3rd across the line in the elite womens road race. See the full ladies results here.

Still on top form she stayed over in Johannseburg for the weekend to race in the Dischem 'Ride for sight' and enjoyed the sprint finish into 1st place. Well done to the star of iRide Africa! More results here

Thursday 18 February 2010

To lighten up your day


Came across this old flyer and updated it a bit. Thanks to Graham for the fun!

Tuesday 16 February 2010

Cape Town cycling -2 days of brilliant rides and views

Two days cycling with two great girls from Sweden. I'll let the pictures do the talking!

3rd place in Construction du cap ninety niner

(lead road guide iRide Africa)

This weekend I did not need to travel far for racing. I have done this race in Durbanville every year when I have been here in South Africa and I enjoy the race. The route was changed this year to a more hilly and challenging finish. The race was 108km and with only 6km to the finish we had 2 very steep hills to conquer. On the start line was The Bizhub team with 5 girls, Cycle lab with 2 girls and me as professionals and some good local girls. We started together with vets 40+ men and after getting out of Durbanville the attacks started. A group with 5 men got away and after that the pace went down even though we could see them almost all the time, so we were not far behind. I felt fine during the whole race and when one guy bridged over I regretted that I did not go with him.

When we came to the 18% gradient Visseshoek hill approaching the last kilometres of the race, me, Ashleigh and Anriette put the hammer down and left the Bizhub team together with the rest of the men behind us. I tried to put pressure on the other girls and maybe I did it a bit too much because I could not respond when they kicked close to the top. I tried to chase on the way down but could not close on the 2km downhill. The finish was at the top of a 1.2km steep hill and starting the hill a bit behind I could not get back to the girls. Ashleigh won 15 seconds a head of Anriette and I came in another 23 seconds later. I am happy with the race after another podium position!

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Results:
1 Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (Biogen Toyota, RSA) 2hr54min53sec
2 Anriette Schoeman (Biogen Toyota, RSA) 2:55:08
3 Jenny Stenerhag (Alpha Pharm, SWE) 2:55:31
4 Yolandi du Toit (Bizhub, RSA) 2:55:52
5 Lise Olivier (Natro, RSA) 2:56:21
6 Catherine Williamson (Bizhub, ENG) 2:56:21
7 Jade Roberts(Bizhub, RSA) 2:56:43
8 Jennifer Hohl (Bizhub, SUI) 2:57:02
9 Heletjie van Staden (RSA) 2:58:28
10 Mary Haw (RSA) 2:59:20

Tuesday 2 February 2010

Summer South African mountain biking

A great photo essay from Sven Martin. he captures perfectly what it's like to ride in Cape Town right now.