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Alexandre Vinokourov

Vinokourov goes as Tour crumbles

Tuesday, 24th July 2007 at 10:37 pm

South Africans at least have the exploits of Robert Hunter and Team Barloworld to follow; even that’s of limited solace, however, in the context of a sport in a downward spiral that shows no sign of ending. Last year’s race …

Robbie Hunter

Hunter storms Tour de France

Friday, 20th July 2007 at 9:27 am

Until this year, it’s been a little like watching Wayne Ferreira at Grand Slams used to be - follow the lone South African as far as he goes, and then watch the big guns wrap up the event. But this …

Dan sleeping at the Epic

Bicycling Magazine goes tabloid

Wednesday, 18th April 2007 at 7:02 pm

Once upon a time, Bicycling Magazine was an upstanding publication of unquestionable moral virtue. Then along came Ryan Lipkin Scott, moderately successful London-based self help guru (Bob Skinstad amongst his clients), who somehow talked Touchline Media into making him marketing …

Dan Nicholl Cape Epic MC

50% off at Arnold’s

Wednesday, 18th April 2007 at 6:37 pm

Pictures and info still flying in from the Absa Cape Epic - including this one, of your hard-working editor on the microphone at the Absa Cape Epic, encouraging more lunatic cyclists to keep going on leon Evans’s nightmare route. And …

Team Bulls

Absa Cape Epic finally done

Tuesday, 3rd April 2007 at 6:28 am

If Feverpitcher has been a little quiet over the last few days, then it’s not without reason - a combination of small towns well off the 3G track, and one exhausted editor. And that was without getting anywhere near a bicycle …

Cape Epic river

Absa Cape Epic - tough but fair

Friday, 30th March 2007 at 12:49 am

If you’ve been following the mountain biking from Knysna through the Little Karoo, you’ll have picked up the general sentiment that the 2007 edition has been a rather malevolent affair, testing the riders with some brutal, unforgiving territory. And from …