Robert Hunter says he’s eager to spearhead an SA invitation team, after he was named in the six-man outfit on Friday for the inaugural Mzansi Tour.
As the wheels come off, locals who rode with US legend Lance Armstrong are keeping their heads down. Richard Poplak reports.
In an email this week, the Lance Armstrong team member outright dismisses doping himself but talks about the culture of peer pressure that existed.
Robbie Hunter said it was time to put the record straight on Wednesday after claims he punched Danish rider Jakob Fuglsang on the Tour de France.
The men who win bike races from the balls-out lunacy of a field sprint are seldom shy or retiring — and Robbie Hunter is as direct on the phone.
While Robbie Hunter was first across the line at Sunday’s Pick n Pay Cape Argus cycle tour, the next face of South African cycling may well be the slightly obscured young development rider we saw flanking Hunter’s right at the finish. If he had his way, Nolan Hoffman (22) would have been born with a bicycle between his legs.