Pure Everest
Everest Challenge If you have been following us for a while you will know that one of our Pure Savage members, Calvin "Cool Shades", has already conquered the Everest Challenge on Franschoek pass earlier this year. What was not blogged about was the second...
Eating wind and Kevin’s bike eating his derailleur
Real Pure Savage training ride. The morning started with our new recruit messaging the group at 4:55am that he was already at our starting point in the quaint town of Somerset West, a full 35 minutes before the arranged meeting time. This is very different to Travis...
Stellenbosch Cycle Tour
After a fantastic weekend at the Coronation Double Century, we had a very chilled training week, including a farewell ride for Travis as he will be moving to Durban. The tired legs needed some rest in preparation for the team’s last race of the year, the Stellenbosch...
Pure Savage kit
Get your Savage kit on!! We have had a lot of requests this year for copies of the kit this year, so we have decided to open up orders for the public. We are making kit for both the manne and the ladies. We use Panda to create our kit for us, we find their bibs the...
Double Century 2015
Four seasons in a day without Summer, Spring or Autumn. Its that time of the year, the days are getting longer, Lions head is full of Cape Town Hipsters and Jozi chinas taking selfies and its the Coronation Double Century time, well for...
The 2015 Craft One Tonner
This year's One Tonner represented an interesting challenge: With the mileage upped to 170km due to road works on the course each competitor needed to decide if they were going to stop for water or not. Most of the team was split across groups A and E. Those in A were...
Annual Bainskloof to Franschhoek sufferfest
This one again Heading to Paarl through the mist A 6am start in Stellenbosch and a long day ahead of us on our longest Coronation Double Century training ride. Near perfect conditions, just a little early morning mist hanging around. Standing in the car...
The sufferfest that is Killarney
Sufferfest Wednesdays! We thought its about time we do a write up about our Wednesday night Killarney racing which we have been hacking away at for the past three or so years. The racing around Killarney started in 2008 and has grown in popularity since...
Two Passes and a Dam
Suns out guns out! The past weekend saw the Savage boys mix things up a bit and start at Paarl Mall. Its amazing the places we get to go to these days without Szymon demanding a Shell start:) After some apparent double dipping in someone's Assos chamois cream, the...
The Last Weekend of Winter!
Last Saturday marked the last weekend of winter (so we hope), and as if to wish us farewell for another year our ride began with some light drizzle. We rolled out from the clubhouse with a few of the guys who weren’t still in hibernation (or recovering from last...
