Regular participants of the Stihl 2015 SA MTB Cup Series will notice a minor change to the Standard Programme of Events for the fourth and final round, which will take place at Cascades MTB Park in KwaZulu-Natal from 27-28 June. Click here to view the article
After overnight rain, tricky conditions tested the elite men and women in the cross country races at the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival on Saturday, with Israel's Shlomi Haimy claiming the men's victory and Denmark's Malene Degn racing to a dominating win in the women's race. Click here to view the article
Sam Bull rocketed to his first ever Nationals downhill MTB cup victory and Danish stars Sebastian Fini and Simon Andreassen captured the 20km and 50km marathon titles respectively as the successful inaugural Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival at the Cascades MTB Park drew to an end on Sunday. Click here to view the article
The success of KZN Cycling's and Cycling South Africa's development programme was on full display as development racing kicked off the three-day long Pietermaritzburg Mountain Bike Festival at the Cascades Mountain Bike Park on Friday. All districts of KwaZulu-Natal were represented, with 10 riders from each district showing off their skills. Click here to view the article
The opening day of the inaugural three-day long Pietermaritzburg Mountain Bike Festival cast a spotlight on the youth, with some very successful development racing followed by the phenomenally successful Spur School Series, which drew entries from across the country, as did the Enduro, which saw some of South Africa's leading downhill riders and cross country athletes taking on the growing discipline. Click here to view the article
The second round of the Spur KZN Schools MTB Series takes place at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg on Friday 3 April 2015. The series will be part of the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival, taking place over that Easter weekend. Click here to view the article
Many of South Africa’s top mountain biking stars including Olympian Philip Buys and national champion Rourke Croeser will be hoping to overcome the physical effects of the ABSA Cape Epic in time for the approaching HC category cross country event that takes place at the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival at Cascades MTB Park on Saturday 4 April. Click here to view the article
The second round of the 2015 SA Stihl MTB DHI Cup takes place at Cascades MTB Park, in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday 5 April. With the right race attitude, and a phenomenal support base, the three-time National Champion and National Cup Series winner, Tiaan Odendaal, is all systems go for this event, and ready to do great things in the future. Click here to view the article
Swedish National Champion Emil Lindgren has confirmed he will tackle Pietermaritzburg Mountain Bike Festival’s HC category cross country race in the hope of securing crucial UCI points ahead of next year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Click here to view the article
Africa’s Bike City and KwaZulu-Natal’s capital is set to play host to a frenzy of mountain biking activity this Easter as the Pietermaritzburg Mountain Bike Festival welcomes top elite competitors and local cycling enthusiasts alike to Cascades MTB Park from 3-5 April. Click here to view the article
Chocolate eggs weren’t the only cause of the sugary sweet aftertaste left in the mouths of Martin Dreyer’s RMB Change a Life MTB Academy this Easter after the team’s telling impression left on the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival held at Cascades MTB Park last weekend. Click here to view the article
The second round of 2015 Stihl SA MTB DHI Cup Series takes places at Cascades MTB Park, Pietermaritzburg on Sunday 5 April 2015. This event forms part of the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival from 3-5 April. Click here to view the article
Following our previous episode featuring trails requiring longer travel mountain bikes, we headed off to Cascade Country Manor just outside Paarl, to see if the rumours were true. Click here to view the article
On the 6th and 7th June Enduro and DH riders descended upon Cascades Mountain Bike Park in Pietermaritzburg for the 2015 KZNMTB Regional Championships presented by NMI-DSM. The event brings to a close a highly successful 2015 race season, with a 3 round series and 1 championship event hosted at bike parks around the KwaZulu-Natal Province. The venue is well known to most riders having hosted 4 World Cups and 1 World Championship, and again did not disappoint, with steep and technical, as well as physically demanding trails awaiting the riders. Mid-winter in South Africa meant crisp cold mornings, but no rain for weeks before the event leaving the tracks dry and dusty ready to powder up during racing. Click here to view the article
Cycling South Africa is pleased to announce that the second annual Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival will soon be making its way to Africa’s Bike City, as it hits the Cascades MTB Park from Saturday 30 April to Monday 2 May 2016. Click here to view the article
Having established himself as one of the top cross country mountain bike course designers globally, Nick Floros will return to something that is very familiar to him when he patches together a route that will take the world’s best mountain bike marathon riders through some of the more scenic terrain of Kwazulu-Natal when the UCI MTB Marathon World Championships takes place at the Cascades MTB Park from 27-29 June. Click here to view the article
The opening round of the 2014 Southern African Mountain Bike Cup Series kicks off in Pietermaritzburg, at Cascades Mountain Bike Park, on 15 and 16 March. Click here to view the article
The opening day of competition at the UCI MTB Masters World Championships at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg was one of great success for the local cross country riders as no less than twelve of the twenty-four medals available throughout the day went to South Africans. Click here to view the article
The time finally arrived for the Cascades MTB Park’s Trials course to invite its first riders on Wednesday as the juniors and the men’s 20” took on the challenging course as they went through qualifying phases ahead of their respective semi-finals that will take place on Friday afternoon and evening. Click here to view the article
With a week to go to the start of the UCI Mountain Bike Masters World Championships, which precedes the UCI MTB & Trials World Championships, organisers and visiting riders have given an unqualified thumbs up to the tracks and the infrastructure that has spring up at the Cascades MTB park course. Click here to view the article
With just over a week to go until the start of the UCI MTB Masters World Championships, which precede the highly anticipated UCI MTB & Trials World Championships, at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg, cross country course designer Nick Floros and his downhill counterpart Nigel Hicks have asked for the full cooperation of both the local and visiting international mountain biking fraternity as they close all tracks at the venue for maintenance and final course work this weekend. Click here to view the article
After months of anticipation and preparation, organisers, participants, officials and spectators alike are counting down the hours to the start of the action of the UCI MTB & Trials World Championships on Tuesday 27 August. Click here to view the article
After a day of high drama on Wednesday’s opening day of the 2013 UCI MTB Masters World Championships, local event organisers together with the International Cycling Union (UCI) have decided to exclude a short, tricky section of the masters cross country course due to safety concerns. Click here to view the article
