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  1. Download attachment: SRAM Logo.jpg Nothing new can really be said about 2020 and the challenges we all faced during the year. The WP DH season was no exception to things being negatively affected, but luckily we got to end things on a very high note indeed. For the first time in years, Hellsend Dirt Compound played host to a DH event, and it did not disappoint. This spectator friendly track offers everything from tight & techy, to loose & fast - and ad to that one of the easiest and bike-friendly shuttle roads in SA. Click here to view the article
  2. Download attachment: logo.jpg The 2020 Western Cape Downhill season kicked off with an absolute bang this past weekend, for the first time in a very long time, hitting triple digits in entries. With the event doubling up as a shuttle day on Saturday and race day on Sunday, and the inclusion the Enduro category, plenty new riders joined the party to start the year on a very positive note indeed. Click here to view the article
  3. So amped for Mankele Avalanche. My first race and only heard and read great things!! Checked to see if there was any thread on this years event already and nothing - So get your hype down here!!! Who else on here is going and/or Who has been before?
  4. For all you who may have missed this past weekend's events, check out a few videos of the downhill highlights and even the full coverage. Click here to view the article
  5. What was initially thought to be a dry weekend quickly turned around as riders met slippery conditions and had to adjust their strategies to suit the wayward weather. The practices on the dry courses couldn't prepare the riders from either XC or Downhill for what the actual race runs would be like. Click here to view the article
  6. Fresh off our own homegrown World Championship race, this weekend sees the UCI World Cup heading to Norway. Steve Peat, via This is Peaty, gives us a walk through of this weekend's Downhill course and some commentary about how he faired on it last year. Click here to view the article
  7. As we lead up to the final UCI Downhill World Cup event this weekend who do you think will take the Men's and Women's titles? Cast your vote! (Voting will close Sunday, 22 September @ 15h30) See a preview article on this weekend's action here.
  8. Keen to get back into the limelight, Marzocchi shows off the new technology it has developed for its 380 C2R2 Ti downhill fork and Moto C2R rear shock in this new video. Click here to view the article
  9. For the gravity hungry, the Red Bull Rampage is definitely one of the must see events if the year. The big mountain fellas no doubt anticipate it all year, with both excitement and trepidation. With just over a month to go, here's a preview of what you can expect and who the big contenders are. Click here to view the article
  10. In blustery conditions the junior men’s and women’s downhill got Friday’s competition underway and it was American Richard Rude Jnr who hurtled down the Cascades MTB Park Downhill course five seconds faster than second placed Loris Vergier whilst the women’s title went to Great Britain’s Tahnee Seagrave. Click here to view the article
  11. For 2014, the UCI MTB World Championships have landed in Norway on what is set to be and incredible weekend of racing. The pits are alive with chatter of who can take the Rainbow Stripes for 2014 and from watching the timed training runs, it appears to be anyone’s race to win. Click here to view the article
  12. The fifth round of the iXS European Downhill Cup 2016 is in the books and the stage has been set for the final round in Leogang. This weekend David Trummer and Carina Cappellari clearly dominated the field of 200 riders from 27 different nations. Click here to view the article
  13. Madison Saracen Factory Team star Manon Carpenter produced the run of the day as she powered her way to her first ever World Cup win in the women’s Downhill at the first UCI MTB World Cup, presented by Shimano, ahead of fellow Brit and current World Champion, Rachel Atherton at the Cascades MTB Park on Saturday, ending a week of total domination of the women’s downhill competition. Click here to view the article
  14. Cascades MTB Park’s downhill course designer Nigel Hicks might have sprung a few subtle surprises on the downhill competitors for the 2014 UCI MTB World Cup, presented by Shimano, after all the riders had the opportunity to have a look at the layout during their course walk on Tuesday afternoon and hometown rider Tim Bentley and Australian, former winner in Pietermaritzburg, Tracey Hannah are looking forward to the challenge that awaits on Saturday. Click here to view the article
  15. Current women’s Downhill number four Manon Carpenter has come a long way in her second year as an elite rider and is pushing to claim her first rainbow jersey when the UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships start at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg on 26 August. Click here to view the article
  16. The present men’s downhill world number three Steve Smith has been in good form of late and is looking forward to having a shot at that illusive rainbow jersey when he returns to Pietermaritzburg for the UCI MTB and Trials World Championships at the end of August. Click here to view the article
  17. 2013 has been a difficult UCI MTB World Cup season for South African men’s downhiller Andrew Neethling who has had to battle against injury throughout, however the local talent remains hugely positive heading into the biggest event of the year – the UCI MTB & Trials World Championships being held in Pietermaritzburg from 26 August – 1 September. Click here to view the article
  18. It has been a rocky road to recovery for Australian downhiller Tracey Hannah who broke her collar bone during a practice run in the Alps just over a month before the UCI MTB and Trials World Championships in Pietermaritzburg. Last year she was celebrating in Pietermaritzburg after winning the Women’s downhill World Cup title, but after an injury ravaged year her world ranking has tumbled out to 26th. The gutsy 25 year-old Aussie is determined to be on the startline to challenge for the 2013 world title. Click here to view the article
  19. Greg Minnaar became only the third rider to win a men’s downhill World Championship title on home soil when the Pietermaritzburg local hero won an emotionally charged final in front of tens of thousands of fans at the Cascades MTB Park. Click here to view the article
  20. World number one Rachel Atherton of Great Britain proved precisely why she has been the one the rest of the globe’s top elite women downhillers have been chasing all year as she destroyed the competition en route to her gold medal and world title at the UCI MTB & Trials World Championships at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday afternoon. Click here to view the article
  21. The downhill mountain biking gods were smiling on the South African athletes at the UCI MTB Masters World Championships at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg as the local stars claimed four of the eight titles up for grabs across both the men’s and women’s categories on Saturday afternoon. Click here to view the article
  22. The core of the South African downhill team for the UCI MTB and Trials World Championships that start on 26 August has three distinctive characteristics - youthfulness, a strong Pietermaritzburg flavour, and the guiding hand of world champion Greg Minnaar. Click here to view the article
  23. With the globe’s mountain biking community eagerly counting down the hours to the start of Sunday’s men’s and women’s downhill events of the 2013 UCI MTB & Trials World Championships, Saturday morning saw Canadian Steve Smith and Rachel Atherton of Great Britain post the fastest times of the official timed runs in the men’s and women’s categories respectively. Click here to view the article
  24. South African downhill world champion Greg Minnaar goes into the defence of his title on the final day of the UCI MTB and Trials World Championships on Sunday. The Pietermaritzburg local hero told Dave Macleod that the Friday night rains had helped to compact the downhill course. Click here to view the article
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