Ray goes in search of the Big 5 and realises he first needs to find his mountain biking legs again.

The MTN Tour of Legends takes place every year around the middle of August and is a mountain biking race held over 3 days. It opens up approximately 33 000 Hectares of unspoilt nature in and around the Entabeni Private Nature reserve in the Waterberg Mountains, deep in the Limpopo province to mountain bikers. Continue reading

Pack some hiking boots. It’s Stage 1.

Yesterday I was loving life. The weather was glorious with no wind, just a gentle, cooling breeze. Bounding around Grabouw for the morning and then on to Oak Valley in the afternoon I had a great day out. And cheering some of the Xterra athletes on was also a great way to get into the swing of things. I went home smiling at the end of the day.

That all faded as a gallery of torture dumped a mother-load of reality in my email inbox this morning. Apparently some guys went out and rode the first part of Stage 1 of the Absa Cape Epic 2012 this weekend. What they brought back isn’t pretty. Continue reading