The Munga Postponed - World’s toughest race faces a tough challenge

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The Munga, a 1000km, single-stage mountain bike race is disappointed to announce that its inaugural race, set for 3 December 2014 across the Karoo in South Africa, has been postponed.

 

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[Mousea]

Not surprised at all

[Skylark]

So obviously not enough entries?

[Pure Savage]

If they were serious about their "dream" drop the full on retard entry fee and get it done. Bunch of nansy pansies.

[nathrix]

I was so looking forward to watching this in the comfort of my couch to watch everyone bleed!

[Shebeen]

ok. whoops. get ready for the pitchforks

[KENDA]

Sorry guys, I had to with draw my sponsorship. I'm buying myself a Epic S-works :ninja:

[Shebeen]

would love to know how many actual entries they have currently. like full on paid up ones.

[jcmeyerSS]

pretty vague???

[Rudi Pollard]

I also think it's a lack of entries that caused this. The idea is to far fetched to get a full field in my opinion...

[Master216]

would suck if you had been training for it and now this happens!

[DieVlieg]

Yup the Munga is a race with a limited amount of people that can actually win it. You have to be a good cyclist and then you have to be tough mentally and then you need to be able to dig into that dark place to be a contender.

 

For the price-tag you are not even offered a memorable experience ore some comfort just the badge and sense of accomplishment that says, I have done this. I do not even think there will be something spectacular about the route as it is all about covering as much distance in as little time as possible.

 

The race is a flippen good idea but the prize money required the entry fee to be too high and the amount of entrants needed to be too many as well. 

 

I'd rather go for a decent prize get more media involved and attract more people and land a sponsor that will be happy to pay for the coverage and participation generated by the event.

 

I hope this happens would like to see what it takes to win this race

[Shebeen]

good thing they capped the entry limit, less people to refund now. - https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/140536-the-munga-mountain-bike-race-adds-team-entry-limit/

[jcza]

Great idea but totally overpriced. How can you possibly justify R110k per team?

[walkerr]

I'm an endurance rider myself (road rather than MTB). A lot of mates asked me why I wasn't entering and it was hard to define.

 

Definitely the high entry fee was off-putting, but it went deeper than that. I'd have no hope of winning it, in fact I'd most likely be a back marker. Again, that's no issue for me, it's how I like riding. Also, there was still some prize money drawn for one lucky finishing team not in the elite. So why not?

 

And there's my problem - the money is the problem. I ride with buddies for fun. My day job is about money. When I get on a bike I want to get away from that stress. I certainly don't want to spend a few days losing a good friend I'm riding with because either I can't keep up, or he can't, and the pressure of not being in for that big prize draw is too great.

 

I get the big prize fund for Pro riders capable of winning this - other jobs have the ability to earn big, so why not MTB riding if that is your career. But how many amateur riders will that tempt, where prize money is not a factor in your choice of rides.

 

Just my 10c - bring on the flames!

[Ferret69]

Piss Poor Form to do this just over 6 weeks out in my opinion, Sure there were Pros like Platt who probably would have been at Cape Pioneer earning some cash this week if they weren't focussing on bringing home the Big bucks at the Munga.