Today we decided to boycott our EA Sports - Need for Speed team name, and follow the needs of our alter ego’s. Slow playing on the bikes, with extra time spent at water stations for an extra doughnut, or two. We soaked up some of the true “Adventure” spirit further down the field, and enjoyed our final journey to Scottburgh [...]

 The race slogan should have been ample warning, only its hard to believe 2200m of predicted altitude gain when flying down Nick’s Pass into the Umkomas Valley midway on 20km of sublime single track. But one goes down, must by law, come back up.

Cresting a grassy hillside after another mint single track,  I could see the finish arch of what was an excellent day of social riding enjoyment on the first stage of the 2008 Subaru Sani2c Adventure - South Africa’s favourite mountain bike race.

(A race start thats not a race - the Sani2c Adventure gets launched)