Specialized played the marketing dream card last weekend in Italy at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, starting Christoph Sauser on the revamped Epic for the first time. I’ll accept Sauser rode like a beast and tore the race apart. But, the most visible difference from being outsprinted three weeks prior to winning a world [...]

I’ve just read the most inspiring writing of Bobby Behan, Specialized Factory Team manager, on the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup held in Andorra earlier today. A 1-2 for the representatives of the songo.info fund raising initiative for a bmx track in Kayamandi just outside of Stellenbosch.

(The men’s podium in Andorra -Photo by Gary Perkin)

Thought it could be interesting to do a quick take on where everyone is at who I either trained with or just came in contact with here in The Bosch over the past few months. There was a great influx of foreign athletic ability this year, maybe more than ever, but as summer turns to autumn, [...]

Christoph Sauser and Burry Stander are in Yellow after stage 2 of the Cape Epic, riding with purpose and meaning to create awareness and and raise funds to build a bmx track in Kayamandi (Wikipedia) for the kids of the township. Ruth has been instrumental in the entire initiative and is spending the week on the Epic [...]

 
I’ve witnessed first hand, and been an insignificant part of something beautiful being birthed between a few people, to the future benefit of many. Its songo.info – buy kilometers build bmx track. Its building a future in many forms for the kids of Kayamandi, a Stellenbosch Township. Through the bmx track, and all that accompanies [...]

Been a bit on the low side since the 6h30 effort at the Totalsports Challenge last weekend. Seems I went hard enough after all. Always incredible to me how we are made up of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. My emotions often tell a great deal about where the body is at. Been struggling [...]

A video summary of Christoph Sauser winning the first national mountain bike cross country race of 2008 in Jonkershoek. Bart Brentjies second, Silvio Bundi third.

I got it all horridly wrong. As I ran onto the beach with my mint carbon Epic V10 on my shoulder, the lined up surfski field started nudging forward in anticipation for the start of the 2008 Totalsports Challenge in Kleimnond. For sure the latest I’ve been for a start in years, since missing a triathlon start all [...]

So two of my training partners over the past two weeks have put some photo’s up and written their view of some of the moments we’ve shared together. Always a laugh to see the same situation through different perspective. One of my favorite quotes was along those lines a few years back. I cant recall [...]

What else is there to ride? 

(Paolo Bettini, Christoph Sauser, Rebecca Rusch, Conrad Stoltz, Chris “Macca” McCormack)

A few friends have yearly gathered for a wine tour on bikes (more wine than riding) in and around Stellenbosch to get the new years party started early. This year the lads were thinned, maybe their chains have been shortened over the past year, but myself and a few friends spent the afternoon in search of a fine wine [...]

Been meaning to share about the Christmas moments last week down on the West Coast at Langebaan with my family, my godfather and some good friends. We nipped down after Ruth’s work day for Christmas eve, leaving a bizarrely stormy Stellenbosch for the West Coast where the storm had passed already.

(Christmas eve sunset across Langebaan [...]

I have this friend who over the past three years has done a lot my training with me, as well as being a partner in crime through much mucking about and procrastinating. We have a semi unwritten code, and understanding of sorts, most of which revolves around ‘looking the part’. Which in turn is probably [...]