Cycling News and Race Results

Team bizhub finished their season on a successful note winning the overall ladies elite category in the Omnicane Southern Tropical MTB Challenge held on the 24th to the 27th of November.

Not content with having won the Cape Pioneer a little over a week ago Catherine Williamson from bizhub tackled the MPACT addo MTB Challenge held in Port Elizabeth over the weekend.

Team bizhub together with  their sister outfit Team DEVELOP will be sending two teams to participate in the Isuzu Three Towers Mankele stage race.

Yolandi Du Toit, Nicci Grobler and Liani Morkel from Team bizhub had a successful outing at the recent Renosterveld 'Ride the Rhino'.

Three members of the bizhub ladies cycling team will be lining up at the start of the "Renosterveld ride the rhino" on Friday.
The three-day MTB Tour which began as a dream of a man, Justin Basson who had the vision and passion to link the remaining fragments of Renosterveld, whilst using the MTB Tour to generate funds to achieve the goal.   What's exciting about the event is that it also forms part of a challenge to help rescue Renosterveld one of the most endangered habitats of the world.

Lindi Erasmus, Liliandi Swanepoel en Monique Gerber from Team bizhub woke up to the sound of gale force winds on Sunday morning.  "I knew the strong wind was going to make for a nice hard race" said Lindi "and they also don't call Port Elizabeth the windy city for nothing".

Team Matlosana made a clean sweep of the podium positions at the Engen Dynamic in Port Elizabeth on Sunday. Lindi Erasmus of Team Bizhub took the women's race with her team mate Lilandi Swanepoel taking second place.

Team bizhub added another win to their recent string of Mountain Bike successes at the Nissan Down and Dirty. The race was held onSaturday and forms part of the Nissan Trailseekers Series.The series is currently the biggest MTB series in Gauteng.

Whist the majority of the bizhub team remain in South Africa, selected riders on the team have taken the opportunity to spend time living and racing in Europe.

Over the past weekend six riders from the bizhub ladies cycling team travelled down to Knynsa for some fine racing and a welcome break from a wintery Gauteng.