cycling

A bicycle ride through Namibia’s sheltering desert

Arts and CultureKevin Davie | 2019-08-30 00:00:00

Planning a cycle ride in Namibia, I came across the story of two German pacifists who hid in the desert for more than two years during World War II...

JOBURG CYCLISTS … CALL TO ACTION

SPONSOREDAdvertorial | 2019-07-26 17:24:00

The Pedal Power Association (PPA) is organising a memorial ride in conjunction with the New Horizons Cycling Club for the late Dr Willie Fourie and...

Pedal power with the people

OpinionRuth Krüger | 2019-02-22 00:00:00

My main means of transport through the streets of Jo’burg is a slightly battered pink bicycle with a basket over the front wheel. The experience...

Slice of life: Reading, the balm to pain

NationalMashadi Kekana | 2018-11-16 00:00:00

By the time we got to the town of Laingsburg in the Western Cape, I couldn’t bend my knee and had to go to hospital because it was so swollen....

Waste and Chemical Management

Special ReportsSipho Kings | 2018-09-21 00:00:00

South Africa’s landfills are nearly at full capacity. They are also a colossal waste of resources, with everything from old eggs to broken prams...

Organisers confirm death of third person at Cycle Tour

SportAgency | 2018-03-12 12:15:00

Cape Town Cycle Tour organisers have confirmed the death of a third person related to Sunday's race.

Uneasy Froome keen to extend Tour lead before TT

SportBarnaby Chesterman | 2017-07-17 16:33:00

Chris Froome admitted on Monday he wouldn't feel serene during Saturday's time-trial in Marseille in the penultimate Tour de France stage unless he...

From team to tactics: It takes more than pedal power to win the Tour

SportAFP | 2016-07-01 00:00:00

To win the Tour you have to be a top-class climber – there is no way around it. The last time a non-climber won the Tour was Spaniard Miguel...

The ghosts that accompany solo explorers

NationalKevin Davie | 2016-01-29 00:00:00

No one in their right mind would go to a place where they induce a condition akin to schizophrenia, but it turns out this is what I have been doing....

Khayelitsha kids cycle to success

NationalRa'eesa Pather | 2015-11-20 00:00:00

On a grey patch of land in Khayelitsha, a few containers and a skeletal structure form the Velokhaya Life Cycling Academy. With the exception of a...

Six key stages call for a tour de force

SportWilliam Fotheringham | 2015-07-03 00:00:00

STAGE 3 Monday 6 July: Antwerp-Mur de Huy 159.5km

I was a Tim Noakes guinea pig

Bhekisisa NewsCraig McKune | 2015-02-13 00:00:00

On a cold June morning, I handed my body to Tim Noakes’s laboratory. His team starved me and laced my evening water with stuff that caused me to become giddy and fall over my cat....

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