Olympian Philip Buys and national champion Rourke Croeser are set to join South Africa’s top mountain biking stars at HC category cross country event of the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival at Cascades MTB Park on Saturday, April 4.
Olympian Philip Buys and the rest of the Scott Factory Racing powered by LCB outfit will join a host of the country’s top cross country mountain bikers when they stake a claim for a share of the Pietermaritzburg Mountain Bike Festival’s sizeable prize pot and vital UCI points on Saturday 4 April at Cascades MTB Park. Photo: Nick Muzik
Buys and Croeser will be joined by James Reid, Brendon Davids, Matthys Beukes, Gert Heynes, Arno du Toit, Travis Walker and Alan Hatherly, among others during the elite men’s cross country tussle, one of the three-day programme’s major highlights.
Riders will be looking to improve their world rankings and cement UCI points ahead of the 2015 UCI MTB World Cup season and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
Scott Factory Racing powered by LCB’s Buys started his season well with victory at the opening leg of the STIHL SA Cup Series in Port Elizabeth a few weeks ago before he and team mate Beukes clinched the Cape Epic‘s African title.
Full Dynamix duo Croeser and Travis Walker enjoyed three days in the Cape Epic’s African leaders jersey and will take confidence from that ahead of this weekend’s national and next weekend’s PMB MTB Festival outings.
