Knysna Cycle Tour Weekend

Knysna Cycle Tour Weekend

The coolest days of winter Knysna 80km MTB – Saturday the 2nd of July. There was stormy weather and plenty rain on the drive up to Knysna on Friday afternoon which continued through the night, but as the cold front passed, it cleared up nicely for the start...
Cannondale Slate Review

Cannondale Slate Review

The end to n+1 ? As polite as ever, we demanded on Twitter that someone in South Africa send us a Cannondale Slate. Low and behold minutes later the awesome team from Cycle Teknix had got in touch and made our dream a reality! We see if this bike will end the need for...
Savage day out!

Savage day out!

300km of hammering around Cape Town At precisely 6:27am a contingent of seven Pure Savage team members left Blouberg on a cool and calm morning destined for Franschhoek lured there with the promise of a cooked breakfast.  Setting out was quite...
Bestmed Tour of Good Hope report

Bestmed Tour of Good Hope report

The tour of hammer The team had a cracker of an experience at the tour, the overall king of the mountains jersey,  a host of stage wins in the team comp and a rider on the podium every day and a second place overall! Team ready to hammer Stage 1 – 98km...
Savage ramping up for Tour of Good Hope

Savage ramping up for Tour of Good Hope

5 Days, 522 km and 6188m of climbing, well sort of. The Tour of Good Hope is now the Cape’s closest stage race which can be compared to the Giro del Capo in years past. Pure Savage has its roots at racing the Coronation Double Century, so the addition this year...
99er suffer fest

99er suffer fest

Apart from Darren Lil and Waylon Woolcock the start line in elites looked rather bereft of any pro riders this past weekend at the 99er road race. That’s because another biggie on the race calendar was taking place 800km away in Port Elizabeth – the 106km Herald...