Unprecedented Racing Action At The 2025 Big 5 MTB Challenge

[News bot]

Saturday 15th of February was characterised by high temps, towering peaks and the most competitive international field seen at a one-day marathon in South Africa. All eyes were on the action in the Limietberg Mountains to see who would arise victorious at The Big 5 by Imbuko and Canetsfontein. Leaving the Imbuko Wines Private Cellar, the intensity was on from the first climb. Even the veterans of the race were taken aback by the pace. Marco Joubert was off the lead bunch at 14km with Nino Schurter starting to loose touch on the steeper slopes as well while Luke Moir […]

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[El Duderino]

Please, God, grant me the strength and the patience to scroll by when a journalist uses loose instead of lose multiple times in an article. 

Don't be a loser, write lose not loose. Loose is not the antonym of win, it's lose!

[Mamil]

14 minutes ago, El Duderino said:

Please, God, grant me the strength and the patience to scroll by when a journalist uses loose instead of lose multiple times in an article. 

Don't be a loser, write lose not loose. Loose is not the antonym of win, it's lose!

 ... makes me upTIGHT, I found myself loosing my way here too.... I mean to.

[Headshot]

I wonder if an alloy rim would have survived Matt Beers better? Apart from the spelling a good article. Let's hope Luke finds a team. Maybe he and Candice should privateer together?

[DieselnDust]

20 hours ago, El Duderino said:

Please, God, grant me the strength and the patience to scroll by when a journalist uses loose instead of lose multiple times in an article. 

Don't be a loser, write lose not loose. Loose is not the antonym of win, it's lose!

Spelling so bad they distributed blame to “the press office “

Singletrack climb “riddled with switchbacks  “ not “ridden with switchbacks” folks 

 

[Nick]

Yikes! Sorry about that. We're accustomed to better quality than this from our media partners and usually don't have to think about editing on a Saturday night.

[DieselnDust]

24 minutes ago, Nick said:

Yikes! Sorry about that. We're accustomed to better quality than this from our media partners and usually don't have to think about editing on a Saturday night.

You were gesuip weren’t you….😂

[Danger Dassie]

Since we're in the phase of nitpicking content material, which we access for free nogal.   .... It isn't a piece of 'journalism' 
Its a race report via a press release, not an editorial. The writer was/is likely wearing more than one cap and on deadline. It happens, normally recipients perform a quick proofread and subedit, not always viable over odd hours and filtering multiple other press releases etc.
It happens on the rare occasion. 

Ultimately we still received a half-decent race update and good insight. What truly matters is the quality of racing and a local result to be proud of against a strong international field.  

[Mamil]

47 minutes ago, Danger Dassie said:

Since we're in the phase of nitpicking content material, which we access for free nogal.   .... It isn't a piece of 'journalism' 
Its a race report via a press release, not an editorial. The writer was/is likely wearing more than one cap and on deadline. It happens, normally recipients perform a quick proofread and subedit, not always viable over odd hours and filtering multiple other press releases etc.
It happens on the rare occasion. 

Ultimately we still received a half-decent race update and good insight. What truly matters is the quality of racing and a local result to be proud of against a strong international field.  

True that, but spelling does count and size doesn't matter are two maxims that are still open for debate.

I get the possessive apostrophe wrong all the time so I'm far from flawless in my use of the King's English. The spirit of my English teacher father rises up in me when I read errors like this .

[Underachiever]

3 hours ago, Mamil said:

True that, but spelling does count and size doesn't matter are two maxims that are still open for debate.

I get the possessive apostrophe wrong all the time so I'm far from flawless in my use of the King's English. The spirit of my English teacher father rises up in me when I read errors like this .

"errors like these" perhaps?

[Mamil]

12 minutes ago, Underachiever said:

"errors like these" perhaps?

Damn

 

Edited to include "Dad ... is that you?"

Edited 17 hours ago by Mamil

[Underachiever]

16 minutes ago, Mamil said:

Damn

 

Edited to include "Dad ... is that you?"

Listen, my English isn't lekker at all, and you can poke holes in my grammar/spelling any day, all day..

But I just loooved it when you stepped in it, and that in your last few words🤣