The PYGA Euro Steel 2 team, Michael Foster and Jaedon Terlouw, took another win on Stage 2 of the KAP sani2c (03:26:21), with just 40 seconds to spare against the Insect Science team of Arno du Toit and Keagan Bontekoning. Sam Sanders and Danielle Strydom (Efficient Infiniti Insure) held onto the leader’s jersey in the women’s race, finishing in 04:10:05, taking 4th place overall for the stage. KAP sani2c is now a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Category 2 marathon stage race, and this report covers the results from the UCI registered riders in the men’s and women’s elite race. MEN’S RACE ..read more

The PYGA Euro Steel 2 team, Michael Foster and Jaedon Terlouw, made it two of two on Thursday when they won Stage 1 of the 2024 KAP Sani2c in 03:01:48. Sam Sanders and Danielle Strydom (Efficient Infiniti Insure) dominated the women’s race, finishing in 03:36:50, taking 6th place overall for the stage. After the elite race kicked off with a Prologue on Wednesday, riders left Glencairn on Thursday morning to race 89km, with 1027m of climbing. KAP sani2c is now a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Category 2 marathon stage race, and this report covers the results from the UCI registered riders ..read more

The PYGA Euro Steel 2 team of iXopo local, Michael Foster and teammate Jaedon Terlouw, won the KAP sani2c Race Prologue at Glencairn Farm near Himeville on Wednesday in a time of 00:39:31, followed by the PYGA Euro Steel 1 team of Philip Buys and Pieter du Toit (00:40:14). Only one second separated second and third place, Insect Science’s Arno du Toit and Keagan Bontekoning (00:40:15). Sam Sanders and Danielle Strydom of Efficient Infiniti Insure took the win in the women’s race after 48 minutes and 43 seconds of riding. The sani2c team of Frances Janse van Rensburg and Bianca Haw followed jus ..read more

The Lions Karoo to Coast will be a Cycling South Africa sanctioned event for the first time in nearly a decade when it takes place on Sunday, 22 September 2024. This will allow riders with racing licences to take part again and ensures that the local development riders are able to compete, on home turf, against the best cyclists in the country. The affiliation with the sport’s South African governing body will allow the continued participation of E-MTB, mountain bike, and gravel bike riders as well as facilitating the racing categories for mountain- and gravel-bikes. Paid partnership with Lion ..read more

The KAP sani2c Race kicks off on Wednesday 24 April, where, for the first time in the 20-year history of the event, there will be a Prologue for the UCI registered riders. KAP sani2c is now a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Category 2 marathon stage race and points are allocated per rider – which means that each rider from the first team across the line will be awarded 80 points to their UCI ranking. Andrew ‘Housty’ Houston says they have developed a challenging 16 km Prologue route with 416 metres of climbing: “I think we have delivered some ‘sani spice’ for the Prologue. It has less sign ..read more

As we discovered in our 2023 SA Mountain Biking Survey,  there are several power meter brands being used by South African mountain bikers. We have spent a few months training and racing with the AXO Sigeyi, which is a relatively new Chinese brand that’s gaining a good international reputation as well as South African traction. Here’s what we think… AXO’s Sigeyi power meter is a crank-based meter. It comes in a range of variants to suit most mountain bike cranksets, including SRAM, RaceFace, Rotor, Cane Creek, Cannondale and Shimano. You bolt the power meter to your chainring and sync it t ..read more

Tyronne White showed his protégés how it is done as the veteran cycling coach led home a phalanx of team members in the aQuellé Tour Durban MTB powered by Cycle Lab on Saturday. The 40km race, which started and finished near Cornubia Mall, was dominated by White (pictured above) and riders he coaches, and he led home a DriveTrain Academy clean-sweep of the top four positions. Josh Paul ended second, just over two minutes behind, with pre-race favourite and defending champion Daniel van der Watt third, and Luke Pretorius fourth. Deon Verwey completed the five-rider podium and was the only rider ..read more

The 2024 UCI XCO World Cup kicked off in Brazil last weekend with some thrilling racing! The Men’s XCO race in particular was an absolute cracker, with 13 riders starting the last lap at the front of the race. Final-lap attacks by those who still could, created some splits, with Specialized Factory Racing’s Christopher Blevins claiming the victory. South Africa’s Alan Hathlerly finished an impressive eighth after a fourth-row start. Even if you watched it live, it’s worth another gander. Watch it now ..read more

Twenty-five year-old Mechanical Engineering student, Hayley Preen, has collected a few national and continental cycling titles in the past few years. This week she begins what is sure to be her greatest challenge yet, the seven-race Life Time Grand Prix Series in the United States. We had a chat to her to find out more. Words: Sean Badenhorst | Intro image: Warwick Purdy She took us by surprise when she won the Elite Women’s Road Race national championship in 2021. Now, when Hayley Preen is on a start line of any bicycle race, we expect success – or at least a hard race. She’s a fierce competi ..read more

I’m introducing my son to South African mountain bike stage racing by combining as a Dad-and-Son team at the 20th edition of the KAP Sani2c, the world’s biggest mountain bike stage race. Here’s how we trained, where we trained and what we used for energy and recovery; what injury challenges we faced and a nice family bonus. By Sean Badenhorst It’s a week before we start the Adventure edition of the 2024 KAP Sani2c, a 285km, three-day mountain bike haul across southern KwaZulu-Natal. Cade is young and strong and enthusiastic. I turn 54 next month and had haven’t done a stage race since 2020. I ..read more