EVENT CALENDAR

NOVEMBER

WESTERN CAPE

4-6 Wines2Whales Shiraz - The Shiraz takes place over the last weekend of the race and has the reputation of taking up the pace a notch or two. The Shiraz celebrates Men's, Mixed and Exxaro teams racing categories in addition to honouring the determination of the rest of the field as they compete in their respective age categories.

5 Western Cape DHI Champs

18 - 20 Ride the Cape

19 Klein Karoo Gravel Corridor Challenge

GAUTENG

5 Silverstar MTB Challenge - The Silverstar MTB Challenge is back, offering its traditional 20km and 40km route options on the Krugersdorp Ridge in the West Rand.

6 Suzuki Like2Bike Kids Event

EASTERN CAPE

17 Camdeboo GravelGrinder - 3 day social ride of 55 to 75km per day. Routes take you toCompassberg (the highest peak in South Africa outside of the Drakensberg Massif) as well as the Sundays River.

MARCH

WESTERN CAPE

3 Ride the Karoo | 100 Miler- Ride The Karoo on a 100 Miler or 50 Miler journey through the beautiful Sneeuberg region experiencing wildlife, water point stops like no other to typical windpomp scenes along the way.


4-10 Transcape MTB


19-26 Absa Cape Epic

EASTERN CAPE

14-24 Freedom Challenge: Race to Cradock  to complete this challenge, riders need to be adequately trained, equipped and prepared. Apart from the fitness, riders also need to be proficient at navigation and bike maintenance. The route is not marked, riders need to navigate by means of maps, compass and narrative directions.


22-25 Freedom Challenge: Race to Willowmore


31-2 The Owl Route

GAUTENG

2-5 The Luxliner Route 66 MTB & Trail Run Experience 

APRIL

EASTERN CAPE

15 Bay By Bike MTB & Trail Run


21-23 Kelston Zuurberg Weekender


28-30 Great Kai Trek Original


28-30 Trek 2 Teebus

KZN

26-29 KAP sani2c  The event begins on a small sheep farm near the country’s mother of all mountain passes, the Sani Pass in the southern Drakensberg. Pedalling across a section of the KZN Midlands mist belt, riders traverse scenic dairy and timber farms, glide through indigenous forests and soar down a breath-taking pass into the Umkomaas Valley before criss-crossing a nature reserve and sugar cane farms that eventually deliver them onto the shores of the Indian Ocean.

GAUTENG

1-2 CompCape Cradle Mountain Trophy

MPUMULANGA

29-1 Sabie Xperience MTB Stage Race

MAY

EASTERN CAPE

5-7 Great Kai Trek Tour


25-28 Great Zuurberg Trek

WESTERN CAPE

6-7 Houw Hoek Tour - a non-competitive 2 day MTB stage event. The objective is to give MTB’s and newcomers to multi-stage events (NOT NEWCOMERS TO MTB) the opportunity to enjoy a weekend of scenic, fun and non-competitive riding.

12-14 36ONE MTB Challenge

KZN

13 KAP sani2c non-stop 

NORTHERN CAPE

26-28 Tanque Kuru Bicycle Race